Netanyahu: No peace deal with Palestinians until Iran is dealt with

by Infidelesto on April 23, 2009 · Comments

With all the bad news recently coming from the disaster that is the Obama administration, the one bright spot out of my entire day while reading about politics is when I hear Netanyahu speak.  

Washington Post

The new Israeli government will not move ahead on the core issues of peace talks with the Palestinians until it sees progress in U.S. efforts to stop Iran’s suspected pursuit of a nuclear weapon and limit Tehran’s rising influence in the region, according to top government officials familiar with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s developing policy on the issue.

“It’s a crucial condition if we want to move forward,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, a member of the Israeli parliament and former ambassador to the United States. “If we want to have a real political process with the Palestinians, then you can’t have the Iranians undermining and sabotaging.”

The emerging Israeli position, a significant change from that of previous governments, presents a challenge for President Obama, who has made quick progress on Palestinian statehood a key foreign policy goal. Obama is also trying to begin engagement with Iran as part of a broad effort to slow its nuclear program and curtail its growing strength in the Middle East.

Update: Yid with Lid says that the Israeli government is denying this report. (via Hotair)

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  • Infidel_Tabatha
    Apparently that is not what Bibi said. Rather, he is saying, according to the Jerusalem Post, that Israel will deal with the Palestinian issue as if there is no Iran issue, and vice versa.

    Then you get Joel Klein in Time stating:

    "But it seems clear that the Netanyahu government's wild overstatement of the Iranian threat, and its linkage to progress on the Palestinian issue, is a subterfuge to allow the continued illegal Israeli settlement of Palestinian areas on the West Bank, which will ultimately subvert a two-state solution."

    He's totally incorrect, of course. And his characterisation of Israeli concern over Iran as 'wild overstatement' is really - to my mind - just a variation on the 'oh those neurotic jews' theme.

    Shame on you, Mr Klein.

    I'm sure he'd be among those wringing their hands if G-d forbid Iran did act on Mahmoud's vow to destroy Israel.
  • JEWHAWK
    Joel Klein is one of those anti-zionist Jews that the Left loves
    to portray as the voice of those truly well-educated,progressive,humanist
    Jews that the World intelligentsia expects from us.

    "STOP THE BS!!"
    (Bill O'Reilly)

    The New York Times,Newsweeek,TIME MAGAZINE are our ENEMIES for the past 30 years...at least.Worst of all is that the anti-semites/anti-zionists STILL insists that the media is on our pocket.I wish that it could be true,but it isn't.
  • spootnik2000
    THIS IS THE ONLY WORLD LEADER THAT HAS BALLS..
  • JEWHAWK
    I hope that it would be the END of this ludicrous
    negotiations.Nothing will EVER be achieved,
    but the evaporation of the hard-earned U.S.Taxpayer's Dollars.
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