Israeli PM to Kerry: We won't be bound by agreement with Iran

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Israeli PM to Kerry: We won't be bound by agreement with Iran - WORLD - Globaltimes.cn
Israeli PM to Kerry: We won't be bound by agreement with Iran

Xinhua | 2013-11-8 21:10:38
By Agencies

Israel will not be bound to any agreements reached between Iran and the six world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry prior to his departure from Israel on Friday.

Netanyahu met with Kerry at the airport on Friday morning, just before Kerry was to continue on to Geneva to join the talks between Iran and the Western countries.

The meeting was described as "tense" with Netanyahu saying before it that Israel vehemently opposes the apparent deal that seems to come into play on the Iranian nuclear plan.

"I hear that the Iranians are walking in Geneva with a smile on their faces, and they have good reason for it," Netanyahu said, according to a statement by the Prime Minister's Office.

"They got everything they wanted and gave nothing. They'll get a decrease in sanctions but they won't reduce their enrichment capabilities, so Iran got the deal of the century," the prime minister added.

"Israel rejects this plan completely... Israel will not be committed to such an agreement and will do whatever is necessary to protect itself," he said.

Netanyahu also tied that sentiment to the peace process with the Palestinians, and said that Israel, on this topic as well, will "not compromise on its safety and vital interests up against international pressure."

"No amount of pressure will make me or the Israeli government compromise on the security and national interests of Israel," he said in that respect.

Kerry expanded his stay in the Mideast on Thursday to try and salvage the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, but decided to join world powers in Geneva after an invitation by the European Union's Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton.

Kerry's eighth visit to the region started on Wednesday with shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Ramallah to overcome major roadblocks in the talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Another topic on the agenda was the Iranian nuclear plan, with Israel insisting on the need to keep sanctions intact so Iran will back off from developing nuclear capabilities.

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Netanyahu: I Won't be Silenced on Security - Defense/Security - News - Israel National News

Netanyahu: I Won't be Silenced on Israel's Security

PM Netanyahu warns that the deal being made with Iran is a threat to Israel's security, reiterates he will never be silent on such matters.


First Publish: 11/11/2013, 3:12 AM

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday that he will always ensure the security of the State of Israel.
Speaking at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, Netanyahu warned once again that the deal being made with Iran was dangerous. He also took a shot at U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who had hinted in an interview earlier that Netanyahu was not aware of the terms of the proposed deal.
Netanyahu responded to Kerry by saying, “I'm continuously updated in detail.”
“For decades we have been struggling mightily against a regime that calls for our destruction and it pursues nuclear weapons in order to achieve our destruction,” said Netanyahu.
The West, he added, “put together a sanctions regime that has brought Iran to its knees, crippling sanctions. The purpose of those sanctions was to get Iran to dismantle – dismantle – its nuclear enrichment capabilities, which are used for atomic bombs and its heavy water plutonium reactor, which is used for atomic bombs.
“This is what the sanctions are for,” said Netanyahu. “They're not for preventing civilian nuclear energy or medical isotopes. I suppose Iran is building those ICBMs in order to launch medical isotopes to the Iranian patients orbiting the Earth. It is to prevent fissile material – that's the material that you put inside an atomic bomb – that's what those sanctions were about. To dismantle the centrifuge installations, underground military installations, centrifuge halls, and the plutonium reactor.
“Now there's a deal. Why the Iranians came to deal is obvious: because the sanctions are biting, biting their economy, crippling that regime. So they came to the table because they have to. And what is being offered now, and I'm continuously updated in detail. I know whereof I speak. What is being proposed now is a deal in which Iran retains all of that capacity. Not one centrifuge is dismantled. Not one.”
Under the proposed deal, warned Netanyahu, “Iran gets to keep tons of low enriched uranium and they can take these centrifuges, which are not dismantled, in the halls, underground, which are not dismantled – using advanced centrifuges that they've already installed, some of them, that are not dismantled – and they can rush within a few weeks, maybe a couple of months, that's all, and create at the time of their choosing, the fissile material for a bomb.
“Iran does not give up anything of that. It makes a minor concession that is meaningless in today's technology and in their current capacities. In other words, none of the demands of the Security Council resolutions, which the P5+1 powers passed are met. None of them! But what is given to them is the beginning of the rollback of sanctions.
“This means that the sanctions that took years to put in place are beginning to rollback with several billions of dollars of assets that are freed up; the automotive industry contracts that is central to Iran's economy freed up; petrochemical industry freed up; matters that involved gold and even petroleum revenues freed up some,” he said.
This deal, Netanyahu said, is “a bad deal. It's a dangerous deal because it keeps Iran as a nuclear threshold nation and it may very well bring about a situation where the sanctions are dissolved or collapsed. It's a bad and dangerous deal that deals with the thing that affects our survival. And when it comes to the question of Jewish survival and the survival of the Jewish state, I will not be silenced, ever. Not on my watch.”

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Bennett: 'We Will Never Outsource Our Security' - Global Agenda - News - Israel National News




Bennett on Iran: 'We Will Never Outsource Our Security'

Minister of Economy and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett pens open letter reiterating Israeli preparedness to 'go it alone' on Iran.
By Ari Yashar First Publish: 11/9/2013, 7:52 PM




Naftali Bennett
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On Saturday night MK Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi/Jewish Home), Minister of Economy and Diaspora Affairs and member of the Security Cabinet, wrote a letter in response to nuclear talks with Iran and American intentions to weaken sanctions on the regime.
The letter comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry is currently in Geneva holding three-way nuclear talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
Many fear that the talks will yield an imminent deal that will weaken sanctions on Iran in return for token gestures which leave Iran's nuclear capabilities intact.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Kerry before he left for Geneva and told him that Israel "utterly rejects" the proposed deals and is not obliged by them.
Bennett says the world is at a choice point, either to insist Iran dismantle its entire nuclear weapons program, or else leave the centrifuges intact to be turned on in the future and place the world in danger.
After calling on the West not to sign a bad deal with Iran, Bennett reiterates that Israel will defend itself, hinting that Israel is prepared to take an independent military strike on Iran if its security interests are ignored in the nuclear talks.
Bennett's letter reads as follows:
These critical days in November will be remembered for years to come.

The Free World stands before a fork in the road with a clear choice: Either stand strong and insist Iran dismantles its nuclear-weapons program, or surrender, cave in and allow Iran to retain its 18,500 centrifuges.

Years from now, when an Islamic terrorist blows up a suitcase in New York, or when Iran launches a nuclear missile at Rome or Tel Aviv, it will have happened only because a Bad Deal was made during these defining moments.

Like in a boxing match, Iran's regime is currently on the floor. The count is just seconds away from 10. Now is the time to step up the pressure and force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program. Not to let it up.

It would be dangerous to lift the sanctions and accept a deal which allows Iran to retain its entire uranium-production line.

It would be dangerous because Iran would, a year, two or three from now, just turn everything back on and obtain a nuclear weapon before the world can do anything to stop it.

It is not enough to shut off the centrifuges. They need to be completely dismantled.

We call upon the West to avoid signing a Bad Deal.

Israel's responsibility is to ensure the security of its citizens and that is exactly what we will do.

We will never outsource our security.

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White House Blasts New Iran Sanctions as "March to War"


Posted By John Hudson Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 6:45 PM Share




In its most forceful language to date, the White House and State Department blasted Congressional efforts to place new sanctions on Iran as delicate negotiations continue on the country's nuclear program. Without mincing words, U.S. officials warned that spoiling diplomatic talks with Iran would be a "march to war."
"It is important to understand that if pursuing a resolution diplomatically is disallowed or ruled out, what options, then, do we and our allies have to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon?" said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. "The American people do not want a march to war."
In a separate briefing at the State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki drove home the point. "Putting new sanctions in place would be a mistake while we're still determining a diplomatic route forward," she said.
For weeks, administration officials have depicted hawks in Congress as "very effective" and "important partners" in levying sanctions against the Islamic Republic. But now, as Iran and six world powers near a potentially historic nuclear deal in Geneva -- one that Secretary of State John Kerry said is "extremely close" to completion -- the administration is ramping up its opposition to new sanctions.
The urgent push makes sense, says Bob Einhorn, who recently left the State Department as its Iran arms control envoy. "Additional sanctions are unnecessary and could put us in a more difficult spot," he told The Cable. "It would play into the arguments of Iranian hardliners that the U.S. isn't interested in a nuclear deal. It would also have the broader international impact of portraying us in a less reasonable light than the Iranians and thereby eroding support for sanctions."
Einhorn, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said losing international support for sanctions carries substantial risk. "The sanctions that are now hurting Iran are not those imposed by the United States but by other countries," he said. " The Chinese, the Indians, the Turks, the South Koreans, and the Japanese: All of them have participated in this sanctions regime because they believed it was necessary to pressure the Iranians to negotiate seriously. If it now looks like we're not negotiating seriously, we can expect support for sanctions to erode."
On Wednesday, Kerry will urge members of the Senate Banking Committee to slam the brakes on a new round of sanctions against Iran already passed in the House of Representatives. But convincing lawmakers, including a sizeable cohort of Democrats, is proving difficult.
In recent months, many liberals have voiced support for placing additional sanctions on Iran, such as Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa), Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.).
On Monday, Israel told The Cable now is not the time to wait. "I think the Senate should take it up," said Israel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "The House has done its work. There is no deal. And in the absence of a deal we have to sustain pressure. The U.S. Senate shouldn't cede that pressure through inaction."
Meanwhile, the administration is unlikely to pick up much support from Republicans who have long been critical of its engagement with Iranian's newly-elected moderate President Hassan Rouhani. "We're very concerned that in their desire to make any deal that they may in fact do something that is very bad for our country," said Senator Bob Corker, the most senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "We think that is the greater threat to our country right now."
A key vote to watch will be Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who remains on the fence. A committee aide tells The Cable the senator won't declare his position until Wednesday at the earliest. "Members of the Banking Committee are going to be briefed on the Geneva negotiations by Secretary of State Kerry," said the aide," and Chairman Johnson will not make a decision on additional sanctions until he has had a chance to consult with his colleagues following the briefing."

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Articles: There Will Be War
November 15, 2013 There Will Be War

By Mike Konrad
What was going through the President's head when he eased up on sanctions on Iran? The only reason Iran was willing to talk was because Iran was breaking. He should have held his ground.
Anyone who saw Netanyahu the other day decrying Obama's rapprochement with Iran saw an Israeli leader who was fueled by rage, bordering on a breakdown. One thing is clear: Netanyahu will not let Iran get nukes. In the past, it has been made clear that Israel will take down the Mideast with her rather than go quietly to defeat.

It was only when the then Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, appealed directly to President Nixon and also threatened to use the atomic bomb that Israel was given the needed tanks, guns and ammunition to turn certain defeat into victory. - Dr. Gerhard Falk

Nixon started to move fast after the consequences of delay were made clear to him. Israel was preparing to go nuclear.

Israel will go it alone again if she has to. With U.S. aid, there may be no need for Israel to use her nukes against Iran. Without U.S. assistance, Israel will have to use tactical nukes.

Doesn't anyone in the State Department realize this?

Many think Obama can link Iran to a two-state solution: put pressure on Israel to make concessions. More likely, Israel will tell the State Department to get lost. The Israelis will attack Iran alone, and to hell with the Palestinians. If a world war starts, so be it. Israel will take down the whole Mideast with her before she surrenders Judea and Samaria.

This is not right or wrong per se. This is simple fact.

At the London Conference of 1939, as Jews were desperate to leave Europe, Ben Gurion would not accept the insulting offer made by the British of a Jewish state barely the size of large city, even under threat of stranding Jews in Europe.

The British were not bluffing. If Ben Gurion did not accept the British offer, the British would halt immigration and deliver a Palestinian state to the Arabs.

Neither was Ben Gurion bluffing. He accepted only the concept of a partition, but he stalled for a better deal.

No Jew is at liberty to surrender the right of the Jewish Nation and the Land of Israel to exist. No Jewish body is sanctioned to do so. Even all the Jews alive today have no authority to yield any piece of land whatsoever[.] - Ben Gurion

The British did cut off immigration two months later with the White Paper of 1939, and European Jews were denied an escape route from the Holocaust.

The State Department has miscalculated. They think because Israel left the Sinai, and South Lebanon, then Israel can be persuaded to leave Judea and Samaria. Well, it is one thing to return Egyptian and Lebanese land, but another thing to surrender Jewish land. What is wrong with our best and brightest?

If Obama thinks Netanyahu will surrender an inch of Judea and Samaria -- what he considers the heart of Israel -- because the State Department pressures him with Iran, then Obama is clueless.

Israel, from the beginning, right or wrong, never had any intention of giving the Palestinians an independent state.

We view a permanent solution [as involving] a Palestinian entity which is less than a state. - Yitzhak Rabin, 1995

Anyone who analyzed the offers made by the Israelis noticed that the Palestinian area would be denied free borders with Jordan and would be broken up into non-contiguous cantons. Israel would control airspace, water, and access. Of course, this was wise from the Israeli point of view, but it was not an independent state for the Palestinians. Yet this is not what the State Department tells the Arabs.

We set the Palestinians up with false hopes and then act shocked when they get violent after those hopes are not delivered. The Arabs, of course, are irrational. They do not need much of an excuse to get violent... but our State Department ignores that. We persuaded Israel to allow free elections in Gaza, and we were surprised when Hamas won.

Yet our State Department continues to pressure Israel to make concessions, which have never born fruit from either party.

Have the Arabs calmed down? Has Hamas stopped firing rockets? Have terrorist attacks stopped?

Have the Israelis stopped building Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria? Have the Israelis stopped housing demolitions in the eastern half of Jerusalem? Did they bend to pressure and stop the wall? How often does Israel prosecute violent Jewish settlers?

I can't say Israel always treats the Arabs justly in Judea and Samaria. There are property seizures, housing demolitions, and denials of building permits. Israeli Jews have assessed, rather accurately, that Arabs are volatile and hostile; and have decided to play tough.

Is this just? It is what it is.

The Israelis will never surrender their biblical heartland. They will stall. They will talk. They will dissemble. But in the end, Israel will not give up her patrimony.

At best, the Israelis will give the Palestinians autonomous reservations. Nothing more. This was evident in 1995. It was evident in the offer Barak made in 2000, which would not have given the Palestinians an open border with Jordan. It is evident today
I am not even blaming Israel. I am blaming the State Department, which has led Arabs to believe that they could get a state. Israel never had any intention of ever giving the Palestinians a separate state. She is not that crazy. Eighty percent of Israel's population leaves in the small coastal strip between Tel Aviv and Haifa. It would be suicidal to give the Palestinians a state.

So now our president thinks he can pressure Netanyahu.

In 1938, after Britain and France abandoned the Czechs, the Czech Army could still have made a good fight of it. Czechoslovakia had the Skoda armaments complex under her control. She might have won. Instead, Czechoslovakia chose not to fight; she was conquered, and the Skoda complex went on to produce over half of Germany's tanks.

Israel is not Czechoslovakia. She will fight.

If that fight comes, not only will Iran be hammered, but there may be a general war, with massive loss of Palestinian life.

One does not have to agree with everything Israel does to know that President Obama acted unwisely.

If President Obama does not back off the two-state solution, and re-institute full sanctions against Iran, there will be war.

One thing is clear. Israel will not budge.

Mike Konrad is the pen name of an American who is not Jewish, Latin, or Arab. He runs a website, http://latinarabia.com, where he discusses the subculture of Arabs in Latin America. He wishes his Spanish were better.
Articles: There Will Be War

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large article would be great if a short video to this article would be with it

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Its not really an informative article since it is emotional.

I just posted it to show how Israel controls the US senate and Congress.

Aside from a few valid points on that matter, his talk about the Palestinians is ridiculous.

He almost forgets that the West is making the Palestinians pay for the crime of Western genocide on Jews.

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France promises Israelis tough stance on Iran

France promises Israelis tough stance on Iran - Middle East - Al Jazeera English


France promises Israelis tough stance on Iran




Francois Hollande, speaking on visit to Israel, says Iran must fulfil four conditions for nuclear deal to take place.


Last updated: 18 Nov 2013 02:46

French President Francois Hollande assured Israel on Sunday that his country would continue to oppose an easing of economic sanctions against Iran until it was convinced Tehran had ended a pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Speaking in Jerusalem on the first part of a three-day visit to Israel and West Bank, he laid out four demands which must be in place for an agreement with Iran to successfully rein in its nuclear programme.
"France is in favour of an interim agreement but on the basis of four points," Hollande said at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"The first demand: put all the Iranian nuclear installations under international supervision, right now. Second point: suspend enrichment to 20 percent. Thirdly: to reduce the existing stock.
"And finally, to halt construction of the Arak (heavy water) plant. These are the points which for us are essential to guarantee any agreement," he said.
His remarks were made on the eve of a new round of talks in Geneva between world powers and Iran seeking to reach an agreement to scale back Tehran's contested nuclear programme.
A previous round of talks ended on November 10 without agreement, with France taking a tougher stance than its Western partners in a move which won glowing praise in Israel.
Construction of settlements
Earlier on Sunday, Hollande said that France expected Israel to make "gestures" over its construction of settlements on land the Palestinians wanted for a future state.
"Some gestures have already been started by Israel – the freeing of prisoners," he said.
However, "other gestures are expected, especially in the area of settlements," he said in remarks in a news conference with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.
Hollande said he would raise the issue of "gestures" expected from the Palestinian side as well when he travels to Ramallah on Monday for talks with Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas.
His remarks came just three days after the entire Palestinian negotiating team resigned in protest after Israel announced its largest-ever batch of 20,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank.
Abbas earlier warned that the current stalled peace talks with Israel would be effectively over if Israel proceeded with the construction of settlements.
But Hollande's comments were quickly countered by Netanyahu on grounds it was creating a needless confrontation with the international community at a time when Israel was trying to get across an urgent message about stopping a nuclear Iran.
Previous direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed just weeks after they began in September 2010 in a bitter dispute over settlements construction.

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Amidror: Israel has the ability to strike Iran, and is willing to do so alone | JPost | Israel News


Amidror: Israel has the ability to strike Iran, and is willing to do so alone

By HERB KEINON
11/18/2013 03:33









Amid Netanyahu's warnings that Jerusalem will not be bound by a bad agreement with Iran, former national security adviser tells 'Financial Times' that Israel could halt Iran’s nuclear capability “for a very long time.”


Amid Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's repeated warnings that Israel will not be bound by a "bad" agreement with Iran, former national security adviser Yaakov Amidror said Sunday that Israel has the ability to strike Iran, and is willing to do so alone.
Amidror, in a Financial Times interview obviously timed and placed to send a message to the world, said Israel could halt Iran’s nuclear capability “for a very long time,” and that the air force has conducted “very long-range flights... all around the world” in preparation.
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“We are not the United States of America, of course, and believe it or not they have more capabilities than us,” Amidror said. “But we have enough to stop the Iranians for a very long time.
“We are not bluffing,” he said. “We are very serious – preparing ourselves for the possibility that Israel will have to defend itself by itself.”
Amidror said Israel could not, nor would it want to, “count on others to do the job if the others don’t want to do the job.”
Asked how Israel would respond if Hezbollah retaliated by firing missiles and rockets at Israel, Amidror indicated the government would be ready to “use ground forces to go into the urban centers and to deal with the people who are launching the rockets, and to destroy the rockets and launchers.”