IMAGINE THE CHUTZPA!! 'Israel MUST be in on US-Iran talks'
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=50969
Wednesday , 12 December 2007
Highlighting new indications that the US government will directly engage with Iran in the near future on all issues including its nuclear program, former Mossad head Efraim Halevy said Tuesday that Israel must ensure that it is a direct participant in such contacts. Otherwise, he warned, the future of the region will be determined in a forum from which Israel is excluded.
Gee wiz... What is Israel going to do when Egypt and Libya start their nuclear programs some time soon? Will Israel also want to impose itself as an unwanted and an unwelcomed guest?? If Israel wishes, we might also free the Israeli spies that are being held here of which one of the last was precisely trying to get info on nuclear activity. Hehehe... We could all party together!!! What a wonderful idea!
It is really amazing to see what Americans let Israelis get away with!
Interviewed by The Jerusalem Post, Halevy said he had no doubt that Iran was bent on attaining a nuclear weapons capability, but that it could and must be deterred.
And since when was Israel the appointed watchdog on nuclear matters?? Isn't there the role of the IAEA and the NPT which Israel by the way hasn't signed! How dare a non signatory to the NPT appoint itself as a "decider" in a matter it has ZERO say in? If Israel wants to speak about nuclear power, it should speak about its illegal arsenal of nuclear bombs, its leaking reactors and it should sign the NPT like and subject itself to all the investigations it wants to subject other countries like Iran to.
He stressed that the latest American National Intelligence Estimate, while engendering an unjustified sense of relief in some overseas quarters because of its talk of a halted Iranian nuclear weapons program, made plain in its crucial final sentence that "Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity eventually to produce nuclear weapons if it decides to do so."
And that in no way contradicts Iran's legitimate rights under the Non Proliferation Treaty. As the IAEA has reitorated on several occasions, Iran is not in violation of any terms of the treaty... So bugger off Israel because you just can't afford to destroy every flourishing country in the Middle East. You ran out of food as you tried to destroy Lebanon last year! You can't handle several fronts at once... so live in peace or pack your bages and go pestering other people... and steeling other peoples' lands and waters.
Halevy said he thought the timetable presented in the NIE - which states that Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb by late 2009 at the earliest, and certainly during the 2010-2015 time frame - was "too sanguine." Israel, he said, had to operate "on the basis of the worst-case scenario."
Why doesn't Halevy fire the 16 US intelligence agencies who probably for once worked with their own sources rather than rely on Israeli cheated ones. Halevy could then cook for himself a worst-case scenario so that he could finally have another war!!
Ultimately, though, he said, the Iranian regime "operates in a rational way, based on its interests."
"They can be deterred," Halevy stated. "They have to be deterred."
Currently the head of the Shasha Center for Strategic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Halevy said he was "not sure" the NIE report had taken the US military option off the table, but that what was "on the cards" now was US engagement. The US "has already involved Iran in its Baghdad Conference setup," aimed at reducing violence in Iraq, and would need direct engagement with Iran to deal with Afghanistan, with the al-Qaida threat and with other issues.
"In the situation now developing, US-Iranian engagement is coming closer and closer - regardless of whether it's in our interest or not," he said. "The US will [engage diplomatically] whether we want it to or not. And if what is on the cards is engagement, it is essential that Israel have a seat at the table. The future of the region cannot be determined with Israel outside the door."
Asked why Iran would agree to any such direct contact with Israel, Halevy said that Israel should ensure that the US makes it a precondition.
"As with Annapolis, everyone has to be there," he said.
He noted that Iran "needs the dialogue" with the US and that "each side has to make concessions." Acknowledging that what would amount to direct Israeli-Iranian negotiation seemed unlikely in the current regional atmosphere, he added, "The impossible happens twice a week in the Middle East."
12 December 2007
Israel is on one hand just itching to go to war against Iran and wants of course to be present lest anyone convince the Americans that a war is not necessary... Israel needs to be able to manipulated and play the Americans well... as they usually do.
Israel is also dying to 'normalize' its 'ties' to the pathetic Arab world and feels that it really belongs to the area. Well sorry Israel, but that will never happen because you have proven to be a nation of war rather than one of peace. Until your last days in the Middle East, you shall always remain a foreign, occupying, unfriendly and unwanted entity. You can fool the Americans, but you can't fool those who live around and with you.
We don't get our news from Fox, CNN, NBC, ABC, MEMRI, Hudson, Heritage, RAND and on... We get them directly from you... so we know the true picture... and it's a very ugly one.
