Featured AIPAC Pulls Boehner's Strings; Netanyahu,ossad At Odds

"House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has annoyed the White House by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a vocal supporter of new sanctions (and worse) against Iran, to address a joint session of Congress about threats from Iran and radical Islam. Well, according to Bloomberg's Josh Rogin and Eli Lake, the Obama administration and U.S. intelligence community aren't the only ones that opposes new sanctions during ongoing nuclear talks: So does the Mossad, Israel's own intelligence service.

Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) support a bill sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) that would ramp up sanctions against Iran if it doesn't reach a deal with the U.S. and other world powers by a June 30 deadline. Mossad leaders have "broken ranks" with Netanyahu, Rogin and Lake report, and "have been briefing both Obama administration officials and visiting U.S. senators about their concerns on the Kirk-Menendez bill." Their concern that sanction threats would sink the nuclear talks has caught the attention of lawmakers, including Menendez, who demanded clarification from Israel's ambassador to the U.S. —Peter Weber..."
http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/535065/report-israels-mossad-lobbying-against-new-iran-sanctions

 

Jerusalem Post

Report: Mossad undercuts Netanyahu, warns US Congress against more Iran sanctions

"Israeli intelligence officials have apparently come around to the same view shared by both the Obama administration as well as American spy agencies.

Israel’s political leadership is in disagreement with top members of its intelligence services over the benefit of more Congressional sanctions on Iran as negotiations over its disputed nuclear program continue, Bloomberg News is reporting on Thursday.

The rift is so severe that it compelled the Mossad to contradict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and directly warn US Congressional officials that more sanctions against the Islamic Republic at this juncture could effectively spell the end of negotiations, according to Bloomberg.

Israeli intelligence officials have apparently come around to the same view shared by both the Obama administration as well as American spy agencies who say that any attempts by lawmakers to pass tougher anti-Iran legislation could chase Tehran from the negotiating table...."

 

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Obama is doing what the Bush administration arrogantly scoffed at over a decade ago. I'm not convinced Iran is intent on acquiring 'the atomic bomb', and I'm definitely not going to listen to Netanyahu's whopper lies on the subject, and I think even his own people realize just what a liar he is and are not anxious to attack Iran. This whole thing is ultimately about maintaining the current balance of power more than protecting Israel from annihilation.

Who knows what the mad dog might do.

 

What's your source? Citation please. Don't just lob gobs of neocon fear mongering.

What's your source? Citation please. Don't just lob gobs of neocon fear mongering.

Yea, it'd be a whole lot easier to dock a freighter in a U.S. harbor and detonate a truck sized atomic bomb in a shipping container than to build one that can be carried.

 

Saudis Tell Shale Industry It Will Break Them, Plans to Keep Pumping Even at $20 a Barrel

"The Saudis plan to keep pumping until the US shale industry cries uncle. That means lower oil prices for longer and a smaller rebound."

...but the real immediate threat from ISIS is likely to force the Saudis to cooperate and be nicer to the U.S..

Ok. So? What? They're old rivals; the Saudis are more concerned with Iran's potential to become an economic powerhouse than they are Iran attacking them. I predict if Iran becomes nuclear weaponized, so will the Saudis.

Yea, there's quacks everywhere, the U.S. has more than their share of them; some even post here on the BB.

Haven't you heard that there's a significant moderate element within Iran that wants to come in out of the cold and cooperate with the West, for their own good?

 

You sound like war mongering right wingnut.

The diplomacy needs to be given a chance to work. It is, beyond any doubt, the best course to follow right now. Even Mossad recognizes that fact.

...and I see the quacks have arrived.