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U.S. congressman: Give talks with Iran no more than 3 months
U.S. congressman: Give talks with Iran no more than 3 months
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048341.html Last update - 03:33 21/12/2008 By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent The Obama administration should devote no more than about three months to dialogue with Iran, the chairman of the United States' House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman, has told Haaretz. Berman says that if negotiations fail, the United States will have to "buy in for a crippling level of sanctions." A California Democrat, Berman came to Israel last week to meet with government leaders and take part in discussions at Tel Aviv's National Institute for Security Studies, which focused on U.S.-Israel relations after the political transitions in both countries. Berman says President-elect Barack Obama's policy of dialogue with Iran should be conducted quickly to prevent the Islamic Republic from attaining a nuclear capability. "If the goal is to keep them from being a nuclear-weapons-capable state you cannot let dialogue become a trap that goes on and on and allows them to enrich and expand their centrifuges and who knows what they are doing with weaponization that is easier to conceal," Berman said. "You cannot talk about a longer dialogue than eight to 12 weeks." Berman said "pulling together key parties" to support sanctions involving bilateral trade and refined oil products would work on Tehran because "it is sensitive to public opinion." He added: "It is a lot different than what we are doing now¬ certain people can't fly, and minor sanctions on certain kinds of nuclear-related technologies." Berman says the Bush administration's major mistake was that it did not unite the international community against Iran, and that dialogue with Iran will be another chance to do so. Russia he said, was key in this respect. He criticized the Bush administration for "not prioritizing Iran" among the issues the United States has with Russia. "The Russians fully well know how important that is for us, and at the same time watch us pushing policies that they deeply resent ¬ in the content of the deployment of the (missile defense) system without the collaboration with them that they felt entitled to get. I think when you look at all issues together, the potential of nuclear cooperation with Russia is big." Berman suggested that modifying the missile defense system's terms of deployment could increase cooperation with Russia. "I don't know, but I think there is a chance to get a level of cooperation. It's hard for me to believe they want to see Iran get nuclear weapons," Berman said. He added that one proposal on the table was to allow the Russians to place monitors at missile bases to show them that the system was not directed against them, but against Iran. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Berman on Israel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6-BGY7X1ro Howard Berman represents the Israeli Defense Forces in the Congress: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...gs_come_round/ Here is a tiny URL for the above one: http://tinyurl.com/9evd5o Yes, There Is a Guerrilla War Against Zionism in the U.S. What Should Jewish Institutions Do? http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweis...it-of-a-h.html Call for former CIA field officer (and Ron Paul's foreign policy advisor) Philip Giraldi which is linked over at NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM and mentioned George Tenet and AIPAC operative Dennis Ross as well: http://tinyurl.com/5vvxb9 Listen to the 'Liberty Hour' interview with Philip Giraldi via the 'Hour 1' link at the following URL: http://tinyurl.com/5gdquy Israel's 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=13906 Philip Giraldi U.S. Middle East policy motivated by pro-Israel lobby http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=49800 --------------------------------------------- Subject: Pakistanis rally against US, Israel/Washington Arrogance Has Fomented a Muslim Revolution Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 3:44 PM Pakistanis rally against US, Israel: http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?i...onid=351020401 You might be interested in accessing the 'What Motivated the 9/11 Hijackers?' youtube video linked on the lower right side of http://www.NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM to see the exchange with Lee Hamilton of the 9/11 Commission. The following youtube is a must watch as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7EB1...aynext_from=PL Here is a tiny URL for it: http://tinyurl.com/5fxwsv You might be interested in accessing the video linked via the following URL as well: http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot....-what-911.html One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe: http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle21504.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Washington Arrogance Has Fomented a Muslim Revolution by Paul Craig Roberts December 5, 2008 Paul Craig Roberts "In a government of law, the existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." ~ Justice Louis Brandeis Is Pakistan responsible for the Mumbai attack in India? No. Is India’s repression of its Muslim minority responsible? No. Is the United States government responsible? Yes. The attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims. Radicalized Muslims resulted from the US overthrowing the elected government in Iran and imposed the Shah; from the US stationing troops in Saudi Arabia; from the US invading and attempting to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing weddings, funerals and children’s soccer games; from the US violating international and US law by torturing its Muslim victims; from the US enlisting Pakistan in its war against the Taliban; from the US violating Pakistan’s sovereignty by conducting military operations on Pakistani territory, killing Pakistani civilians; from the US government supporting a half century of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their lands, towns and villages; from the assault of American culture on Muslim values; from the US purchasing the government of Egypt to act as its puppet; from US arrogance that America is the supreme arbiter of morality. As Justice Brandeis said, crime is contagious. Government teaches by example, and America’s example is lawlessness. America’s brutal crimes against the Muslim world have invited every Muslim to become a law unto himself – a revolutionary. It is not terror that Washington confronts but revolution. By illegal, uncivilized and undiplomatic behaviour, the US has stirred Muslim peoples from their long slumber as serfs of Western colonial powers. Some Muslims have had all that they can take and their fury drives them to rouse a billion of their fellows to throw off the yoke of foreign hegemony. The arrogant incompetence of American governments brought this conflict to the American people and inflicted it upon the world. By destabilizing Pakistan, the US lost a puppet and created an opportunity for Muslim revolutionaries to exploit. By enraging India against Pakistan, the Mumbai attack has created new problems for Pakistan that will focus that government’s attention away from combating Taliban sanctuaries on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. If the US picks up the slack, it will have invaded yet another country and become trapped in a larger quagmire. Having fomented terrorism, the American government now pretends to be the innocent victim, just as Israelis, having brought about terrorism by driving Palestinians from their homes and villages, pretend to be innocent victims. Today European members of NATO, an outdated organization formed to defend Western Europe against Soviet invasion, are sacrificing the lives of their soldiers fighting the American Empire’s war in Afghanistan. If America continues to have its way, Europeans will soon be dying in Ukraine, Georgia and Iran. The American government, which preaches "freedom and democracy" has in the 21st century gone to great extremes to stamp out the US Constitution and the civil liberties that it guarantees. The US government has repudiated the Geneva Conventions and the prohibitions in US statutory law against torture. The US government has set aside habeas corpus, the ancient legal principle guaranteed by the US Constitution that prohibits governments from holding people in prisons without presenting charges. The US government has broken the laws of other nations by kidnapping foreign citizens and transporting them to other lands to be tortured. These massive crimes have been justified in the name of the "war on terror." In truth, America’s crimes foment revolution. It was the US government that created the "war on terror," which has been used to murder and dispossess millions of Iraqis and Afghans, to imprison US citizens as if they were medieval serfs and to squander three trillion dollars for the sole purpose of enriching Halliburton and the military-security complex. Investigative journalist John Pilger has shown that the so-called "moral superiority of the West" is a hoax designed to shield from view the self-seeking West’s crimes against humanity. Obama promised change from this destructive behaviour, but how does change arise when the most arrogant woman on earth is appointed Secretary of State and the rest of the new government is staffed with tried-and-true Likudniks and servants of the military-security complex? The change over which Obama will preside will have no American victories. The change will come from America as a failed state, from the dollar dethroned as reserve currency, from America repudiated by its allies and paid puppets, from massive unemployment for which there is no solution, from hyperinflation that produces anarchy. The day might arrive when Washington is faced with revolution at home as well as abroad. December 5, 2008 Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail] a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co- authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has just been released by Random House. |
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