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US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Because the U.S. has avoided direct talks with the militant Hamas movement, which runs Gaza but which the U.S. deems a terrorist organization, Abdullah was approached to act as a go-between, these sources told TIME. The Jordanian monarch complied with the U.S. request, and last week he dispatched a senior intelligence officer to Damascus to warn exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal that Gaza was in danger of an Israeli attack unless the rocket-fire was immediately stopped. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1861524,0...
US pressures Israel not to attack Iran or Hamas
Israel Matzav —
... is being warned by the Bush administration not to attack Iran or Hamas in the days between now and the inauguration of Democratic President Barack Hussein Obama. U.S. officials have asked Israel to refrain from launching any major military action in the region during the waning days of the Bush presidency, Israeli sources have told TIME. Previously, some Israeli military officials had hinted to the media that if Israel were to carry out its ...
US Puts Pressure on Israel to Refrain from Attacks
Israpundit —
Tim McGirk, TIME
U.S. officials have asked Israel to refrain from launching any major military action in the region during the waning days of the Bush presidency, Israeli sources have told TIME. Previously, some Israeli military officials had hinted to the media that if Israel were to carry out its threats to strike at Iranian nuclear installations, it might do so before Barack Obama enters the White House in January. But now a Defense Ministry official says, “We have been warned off.”
The call for restraint was ...
On Iran, it's "Bad Cop, Bad Cop"
Newshoggers.com —
... the Iranian leadership by military strikes, including on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel's destruction? "We have to consider killing him," Ya'alon replied. "All options must be considered."
Ya'alon is currently running as a Likud MP. Sheehan also spoke to other like-minded Israeli rightwingers, all ready to say that Israel must attack Iran and was preparing to do so.
But then again, yesterday TIME magazine's Tim McGurk wrote that an attack isn't on the cards.
U.S. officials have asked ...
Dialogue Bolstered by Sanctions - A Possible Option for Dealing With Iran
Counterterrorism Blog —
... Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has reportedly been asked by US officials to hold off taking any steps that could push the Iran nuclear issue back into crisis mode, at least until the Obama Administration is established in office and has had a chance to explore the options. These options range from engaging Iran in discussions a la the EU-Iran negotiating process to threatening (and perhaps even taking) military action. Enhanced political and economic sanctions on Iran also remain a key option. The question is whether any sanctions option can be made to ...
On Iran, it's "Bad Cop, Bad Cop"
Crooks and Liars —
... Iranian leadership by military strikes, including on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel's destruction? "We have to consider killing him," Ya'alon replied. "All options must be considered."
Ya'alon is currently running as a Likud MP. Sheehan also spoke to other like-minded Israeli rightwingers, all ready to say that Israel must attack Iran and was preparing to do so. But then again, yesterday TIME magazine's Tim McGurk wrote that an attack isn't on the cards.
U.S. officials ...
The press mess, McGirk quirk and the Nissenbaum shuffle
Yourish.com —
... Nissenbaum’s protests are particularly irksome. If I were convinced of his good faith as a reporter, maybe I’d feel differently, but Nissenbaum himself enjoyed an afternoon in the company of an unrepentant killer - and even apologized for that killer and insists - despite an investigation and readily available evidence to the contrary - that the Israeli army deliberately targeted a reporter.
Or consider Time’s Tim McGirk on the recent unraveling of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Rocket fire from ...
