Israel’s Netanyahu urges Obama not to ease off sanctions on Iran
Israel’s Netanyahu to warn US, UN about Iran’s ‘smiley campaign’
Netanyahu, who contends Iran is using conciliatory gestures as a smoke screen to conceal an unabated march toward a nuclear bomb, will meet with President Obama Monday to deliver strong words of caution to the U.S.
A wary Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned the U.S. not to let up on sanctions against Iran, during an in-person meeting on Monday with President Obama just days after the U.S. president held a historic phone call with Iran’s Hassan Rouhani. Israel has panned Rouhani’s latest diplomatic push as a “smiley campaign.” Â
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Scaramouche:
“Obama’s Day: A Government Shutdown and Israel”
Busy day.  (I bet, all in all, he’d rather be golfing.)
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The Zion-Loathing Turkeys of The Guardian Gets Their Birds Mixed Up
It is unconscionable that even during this turbulent period with the upheavals in Syria and Egypt, the Obama administration blinds itself to the real barriers to peace and exploits the Iranian nuclear threat as a vehicle to pressure Israel to maintain this Alice in Wonderland negotiation charade. By demanding that we make further unilateral territorial concessions in the absence of ironclad security (which is currently impossible) the US is pressuring us to gamble with our lives and future.