Team Obama Will Focus on Israeli-Palestinian Peace to Help Solve Iranian Nuke Crisis
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:27 AM
Obama’s National Security Advisor James L. Jones spoke on Wednesday April 21, 2010 at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. During his speech Jones admitted that Team Obama’s approach of diplomacy with Iran has been an utter failure. It took them over a year to realize they were dealing with a killer thug regime that is barreling ahead with a clandestine nuclear program and has no intention of allowing international interference in its nuclear rights.
The Iranian regime celebrated its National Nuke Day this year with a musical tribute.
The National Security Advisor told his audience that if the Obama Administration concentrated on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process then they would take this evocative issue away from Iran, Hizballah, and Hamas. Unfortunately, Hamas controls Gaza and will not recognize Israel which makes peace an impossibility. But, in team Obama’s world of butterflies and buttercups these thug regimes can be persuaded to give up their terrorist ways and make peace with Israel despite the fact that their charter calls for the eventual creation of an Islamic state in Palestine, in place of Israel.
What Team Obama doesn’t seem to understand is that there will be no peace between the Palestinians and Jews until Iran is dealt with. Until the arms pipeline from Tehran to Syria, Gaza and southern Lebanan is dismantled there will be no peace for Israel.
Independent Media Review Analysis reported:
When President Obama took office, Iran had already assembled thousands of centrifuges and accumulated nearly a bomb’s worth of low enriched uranium. Iran was in active violation of five UN Security Council Resolutions. Moreover, Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist actors in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza signaled a continued determination to sow its brand of violence and coercion across the Middle East.
Clearly, a policy of not engaging Iran did not work. That is why President Obama made clear his commitment to engage Iran on the basis of mutual respect on the full range of issues that divide our countries. As the President repeatedly said, he was under no illusions. He knew it would not be easy to overcome decades of mistrust, suspicion, and even open hostility between our countries. But he also knew that engagement was necessary to present Iran with a choice and to unite the international community around the need for Iran meet its international obligations.
So to advance our interests, President Obama extended his hand and the opportunity for dialogue. American and Iranian diplomats met in Geneva in October, and through the International Atomic Energy Agency. With strong support from the United States, France, and Russia, the IAEA put forward a creative offer to produce nuclear fuel using Iran’s own low enriched uranium. It was an offer with humanitarian benefits, ensuring that Iran would meet its need for medical isotopes. It gave Iran the opportunity to show that its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes. It would have built confidence on both sides in the possibility of further agreements. In addition, the United States went to great lengths to demonstrate our commitment and establish assurances for Iran.
To date, we have seen no indication that Iran’s leaders want to resolve these issues constructively. After initially accepting it, they rejected the Tehran Research Reactor proposal. They have refused to discuss their nuclear program with the P5+1. The revelation of a previously covert enrichment site, construction of which further violated Iran’s NPT obligations, fed further suspicion about Iran’s intentions. Iran recently increased the enrichment levels of its uranium to 20 percent. All the while, Iran continues to brutally repress its own citizens and prohibit their universal rights to express themselves freely and choose their own future.
These are not the behaviors of a responsible international actor, and they are not the actions of a government committed to peaceful diplomacy and a new relationship with a willing and ready partner.
Indeed, Iran’s continued defiance of its international obligations on its nuclear program and its support of terrorism represents a significant regional and global threat. A nuclear-armed Iran could transform the landscape of the Middle East, precipitating a nuclear arms race, dramatically increasing the prospect and danger of local conflicts, fatally wounding the global non-proliferation regime, and emboldening the terrorists and extremists who threaten the United States and our allies.
Therefore, we are now working actively with allies and partners to increase the costs of Iran’s continued failure to live up to its international obligations. This includes a U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution.
As President Obama has stated, our offer of engagement with Iran stands, and we remain prepared to pursue a better and more positive future. Iran has rights, but with those rights come responsibilities. If Iran’s leaders do not fulfill those responsibilities, and if they continue to violate their international obligations, they will face ever deepening isolation.
Iran’s government must face real consequences for its continued defiance of the international community. We hope that Iran will make the right choice and acts to restore the confidence of the international community in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program.
However, should Iran’s leaders fail to make that choice, President Obama has been very clear, and I want to repeat it here: the United States is determined to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In so doing, we will avoid a nuclear arms race in the region and the proliferation of nuclear technology to terrorist organizations.
Of course, one of the ways that Iran exerts influence in the Middle East is by exploiting the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. Iran uses the conflict to keep others in the region on the defensive and to try to limit its own isolation. Ending this conflict, achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians and establishing a sovereign Palestinian state would therefore take such an evocative issue away from Iran, Hizballah, and Hamas. It would allow our partners in the region to focus on building their states and institutions. And peace between Israel and Syria, if it is possible, could have a transformative effect on the region.
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Militant Conservative commented:
Showboat only, knowing this president he will screw this up so bad a hot war will ensue. Either that OR look over here while I distroy yet another sector of American economy. Probably both. Obama=EVIL.
powder is dry.
olm commented:
Ususally when an administration is this incompetent I would think that someone would have to realize it.
Today I am thoroughly speechless by the rampant incompetence.
They say over and over that they are committed to stopping Iran from becoming nuclear. But what they say and what they do are two totally different things.
Opus #6 commented:
The last pResident who tried to create peace ended up sparking an intifada that took many lives. I’m not getting a good feeling about this….
Auntie Em commented:
He will make a covenant with many.
kate commented:
4 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
Andreas K. commented:
Ending this conflict, achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians and establishing a sovereign Palestinian state would therefore take such an evocative issue away from Iran, Hizballah, and Hamas.
Thank you Team Obama for proving that you clowns have NO idea.
The issue is NOT a sovereign “palestinian” state.
The issue is Israel. The issue is that the Hamas, for example, wants to destroy Israel. The issue is that the neighbors of Israel wouldn’t mind seeing Israel destroyed. The issue is that Iran wants to destroy Israel.
A sovereign “palestinian” state (which actually exists, it’s Israel, because, by Roman definition, the Israelis were the Palestinians) won’t change anything.
Erik commented:
So they will try to promote peace between Israel and Palistinians to “take such an evocative issue away from Iran, Hizballah, and Hamas”. Now, since two of those are in fact the Palistinian organisations in control, this might be a tad difficult to accomplish. Who are they going to negotiate with to “take the issue away from them”?
The only real way this could be done is to let them have everything they want, or to try and try and find another Palistinian partner that can act as a leader, and try to get that organisation to win an election, with US support. Yeah, that’ll happen.
Cue PLO, I’m sure they wont ever consider terrorism or anything…
clyde commented:
It is bushes fault,it is isreals fault,look theres a squiril.
jomojava commented:
Imagine if we could tie the Iranian regime to Wall Street executives, FoxNews, talk radio and the Tea Partiers.
Andreas K. commented:
I found a “musician” for Obama and his friends.
The rapper “Makss Damage” from Gütersloh, Germany.
His latest “album” is called “Makssismuss 2010.”
One of the “songs” on it is called “Arabian Money” and contains lyrics like “I’m funneling poison gas into Jewish settlements.” His “songs” call for hatred and violence towards police officers, Jews, “capialists”, etc. That Stalin and Lenin are heroes is another theme.
“Let the Star of David burn. Let Zionism sink” is another one of his literary masterpieces.
The “Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterjugend” (lit. the Socialist German Workers’ Youth, yes something like that exists and it’s not banned) is working closely with him and he appared on one of their concerts.
I think Obama should hire him for the next big event in the WH. Wright would love that guy.
Valerie commented:
This is stupid.
The way to Middle East Peace runs through repudiation of the Hamas Covenant.
This business, of pretending that the Israelis are in any way responsible for the blasphemy against Allah by the Iranian government, is nonsense.
It’s time for those miserable, third-rate governments to recognize how costly it is, to have a policy of murdering their neighbors.
Alana commented:
I just love an administration that has to learn everything there is from scratch.
Andreas K. commented:
http://europenews.dk/en/node/31624
Stuart commented:
-It took them over a year to realize they were dealing with a killer,thug regime.-
Gosh and golly gee whiz, what was your first clue?
free` commented:
If Israel reads this statement by the National Security Advisor, they had better realize now that they [Israel] have no choice but to take care of iran themselves. And quickly!
Alice L. commented:
The Obama regime is dumber than I thought. What on earth do the Palis have to do with Iran? Doesn’t the knucklehead in the White House even know that Persians, traditionally, have looked down on Arabs? How stupid can Obama be? This is like saying that The Wall Street collapse is related to the Lindbergh kidnaping. Obama is looking to scapegoat the Jews and blame them for everything. He just loooooves Moslem terrorists. He can’t help himself what with his sitting in the Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years and his hanging out with Bill Ayers not to mention his being raised in Indonesia. Just can’t help himself. All the signs were written on the Obama wall and the public chose to ignore it.
Fuel Inject. Controls Parts commented:
Obama flew to Berlin from the Middle East, where he had toured the Holy Land and met with leaders of Israel and the Palestinians. Fuel Inject. Controls Parts
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