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Subject: Just so we all know where BHO stands.....
Hamilcar    4/29/2010 10:59:58 AM
http://www.kadmiel.com/usembargoonisrael US EMBARGO ON.....ISRAEL by RKNews — last modified 2010-03-21 01:55 Embargo iran? No, well, not yet, and not too strict. Obama policy waffles on Iran. For Israel? No, notice, no press conference, no warning: stop shipments en route, cancel or hold all future shipments of military equipment. Obama policy: ABSOLUTE MILITARY EMBARGO ON ISRAEL! According to recent media reports,the latest action in Obama's increasingly aggressive embargo on shipping military parts and systems to Israel. The lastest example, as reported in the World Tribune and Debkafile among others, was the bunker busting bombs already en route that were redirected to US bases. While it may have served incidentally as saber rattling toward Iran, it was primarly a diversion of a contracted military shipment to Israel. World Tribune http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_israel0217_03_18.asp The World Tribune quoted an unnamed official as saying that it was strictly "...a political decision." In 2008, the United States approved an Israeli request for bunker-busters capable of destroying underground facilities, including Iranian nuclear weapons sites. Officials said delivery of the weapons was held up by the administration of President Barack Obama. Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems. Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters, refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E. Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems. Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters, refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E. "All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010," a congressional source familiar with the Israeli military requests said. "This is really an embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly." DebkaFile http://www.debka.com/article/8665/ Shortly after Vice President Joe Biden's Israel visit ended on March 11 in high dudgeon over the approval 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, US president Barack Obama ordered a consignment of Joint Direct Attack Munition- JDAM already on its way to Israel to be diverted to the US Air Force base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. This step, the pointer to a US arms embargo for preventing Israel attacking Iran's nuclear sites, is first revealed here by debkafile's military sources. On March 13, debkafile disclosed that the Obama administration was pondering withholding from Israel military hardware that could be used for an Israeli attack on Iran. In late February, we reported that defense minister Ehud Barak had submitted to defense secretary Robert Gates a list of the items Israel required urgently to stand up to a four-front assault by Iran and its allies - mainly air force ordnance, certain types of missile and advanced electronic devices. Barak made it clear that all these items must be present in Israel before the outbreak of hostilities. The requests were so urgent that the minister proposed that if Washington was reluctant to hand them directly to Israel, they could be stored for the interim in the big American emergency depots in Israel's Negev. JPOST Caroline Glick Column One http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=171364 Obama himself claims that he has launched a political war against Israel in the interest of promoting peace. But this claim, too, does not stand up to scrutiny. On Friday, Obama ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present Netanyahu with a four-part ultimatum. First, Israel must cancel the approval of the housing units in Ramat Shlomo. Second, Israel must prohibit all construction for Jews in Jerusalem neighborhoods built since 1967. Third, Israel must make a gesture to the Palestinians to show them we want peace. The US suggests releasing hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons. Fourth, Israel must agree to negotiate all substantive issues, including the partition of Jerusalem (including the Jewish neighborhoods constructed since 1967 that are now home to more than a half million Israelis) and the immigration of millions of hostile foreign Arabs to Israel under the rubric of the so-called “right of return,” in the course of indirect, Obama administration-mediated negotiations with the Palestinians. To date, Israel has maintained that substantive discussions can only be conducted in direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials. If Israel does not accept all four US demands, then the Obama administration will boycott Netanyahu and his senior ministers. In the first instance, this means that if Netanyahu comes to Washington next week for the AIPAC conference, no senior administration official will meet with him. Obama’s ult
 
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Nichevo    Perfect   5/6/2010 11:43:58 PM
Perfectly sickening that is.  Shouldn't have read this just after dinner.
 
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