Emanuel & Gingrich sound off prior to Netanyahu's Washington foray
Thwarting Iran's nuclear program is conditional on progress in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, according to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel made the comments in a closed-door meeting with AIPAC. Last month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Israel that it risks losing support…if it rejects peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
[F]ormer US House speaker Newt Gingrich blasted the Obama administration for setting itself on a collision course with Israel and endangering the Jewish state. He called US President Barack Obama's program of engagement on Iran a "fantasy," and his Middle East policies "very dangerous for Israel." He summed up Obama's approach as "the clearest adoption of weakness since Jimmy Carter."
[Jerusalem Post]
UPDATE:
Obama Will Be "More Forceful" with Israel -Barak Ravid & Natasha Mozgovaya
Gen. James Jones, national security adviser to President Barack Obama, told a European foreign minister a week ago that unlike the Bush administration, Obama will be "forceful" with Israel. Jones is the main force in the Obama administration stressing the Palestinian question. "
(Ha'aretz)
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2 comments:
Conjecture and prophesying and from a highly dubious source. Newt did not know what was best for America and did little for America and is unlikely to be in a better position on the issues of the MidEast or Israel in particular. He is fear mongering and posturing for his own stature in his party, but he will find he has started a little too early for 2012, and I believe he will be proven wrong on most accounts, whether they have to do with the MidEast or anywhere else. Nothing so far from America or anywhere else has worked for the MidEast. Let us see what Obama's plans are before we damn them, rather than postulate and conjecture. Time will indeed tell.
True that he's posturing for a possible presidential run in 2012...also true that he's fear mongering. But he touches a raw nerve [particularly in the Jewish community] when he compares Obama to Carter. I'm no big fan of Gingrich, and hope he is wrong on this account.
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