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Netanyahu leading Israel to sanctions: Official
A senior Israeli official has blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for guiding Tel Aviv towards sanctions through disinclination for progress in talks with the Palestinians.
“Netanyahu’s conduct is resulting in sanctions, boycotting,” said the un-named official, Israeli website Ynet News informed on Friday.The premier had adopted the attitude, while, ‘Today Israel is in a more poor and sensitive condition than it was in 1948,” the official said, referring to the year of the occupation of Palestine by Israel.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not really willing to move forward with the negotiations.”
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators began a fresh round of talks in July. Previous talks broke down in September 2010 after Tel Aviv refused to freeze its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds (Jerusalem), and the Gaza Strip and are demanding Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds. Even days before the start of the talks, Israel announced plans for more than 2,000 new settler units in East al-Quds and the West Bank, which angered Palestinians.
Netanyahu “only wants to preserve his status in his party and everyone knows what it looks like,” the Israeli official noted.
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47 US senators side with Israel lobby against Iran
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has released the record of 47 US senators who have decided to co-sponsor a bill to impose additional sanctions against Iran.The sanctions bill, presented by Sens. Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez on Dec. 19, initially had the support of 24 other senators similarly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
The White House was quick to condemn the measure at the time, saying President Barack Obama would veto the bill “if it were to pass” Congress.
Senator Cory Booker, newly elected Democrat from New Jersey, quickly added his name to the list and since then, 20 other senators — all Republicans — have added their names, according Lobelog.com.
Fifty three senators, including 36 Democrats and two independents who normally vote with the Democratic caucus, have not agreed to co-sponsor the sanctions bill, making them “the top targets for AIPAC’s legendary powers of persuasion when the Senate reconvenes early next week.”
“What is remarkable about this list, however, is that very few of the 47 co-sponsors have chosen to publicize their support for the bill to their constituents through local media or other means,” writes American journalist Jim Lobe in his report.
President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have repeatedly stated that the passage of a new sanctions bill would not only violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the interim nuclear deal, it would also cast serious doubt on Washington’s “good faith” in negotiations.
The new anti-Iran initiative in the Senate is at odds with the most recent assessment by the US intelligence community which has concluded that “new sanctions would undermine the prospects for a successful comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran.”
Tehran has warned that any new sanctions against Iran would kill “the entire deal” reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany in Geneva on November 24.
PressTV - 47 US senators side with Israel lobby against Iran
A senior Israeli official has blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for guiding Tel Aviv towards sanctions through disinclination for progress in talks with the Palestinians.
“Netanyahu’s conduct is resulting in sanctions, boycotting,” said the un-named official, Israeli website Ynet News informed on Friday.The premier had adopted the attitude, while, ‘Today Israel is in a more poor and sensitive condition than it was in 1948,” the official said, referring to the year of the occupation of Palestine by Israel.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not really willing to move forward with the negotiations.”
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators began a fresh round of talks in July. Previous talks broke down in September 2010 after Tel Aviv refused to freeze its settlement activities in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds (Jerusalem), and the Gaza Strip and are demanding Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds. Even days before the start of the talks, Israel announced plans for more than 2,000 new settler units in East al-Quds and the West Bank, which angered Palestinians.
Netanyahu “only wants to preserve his status in his party and everyone knows what it looks like,” the Israeli official noted.
PressTV - Netanyahu leading Israel to sanctions: Official
47 US senators side with Israel lobby against Iran
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has released the record of 47 US senators who have decided to co-sponsor a bill to impose additional sanctions against Iran.The sanctions bill, presented by Sens. Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez on Dec. 19, initially had the support of 24 other senators similarly divided between Democrats and Republicans.
The White House was quick to condemn the measure at the time, saying President Barack Obama would veto the bill “if it were to pass” Congress.
Senator Cory Booker, newly elected Democrat from New Jersey, quickly added his name to the list and since then, 20 other senators — all Republicans — have added their names, according Lobelog.com.
Fifty three senators, including 36 Democrats and two independents who normally vote with the Democratic caucus, have not agreed to co-sponsor the sanctions bill, making them “the top targets for AIPAC’s legendary powers of persuasion when the Senate reconvenes early next week.”
“What is remarkable about this list, however, is that very few of the 47 co-sponsors have chosen to publicize their support for the bill to their constituents through local media or other means,” writes American journalist Jim Lobe in his report.
President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have repeatedly stated that the passage of a new sanctions bill would not only violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the interim nuclear deal, it would also cast serious doubt on Washington’s “good faith” in negotiations.
The new anti-Iran initiative in the Senate is at odds with the most recent assessment by the US intelligence community which has concluded that “new sanctions would undermine the prospects for a successful comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran.”
Tehran has warned that any new sanctions against Iran would kill “the entire deal” reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany in Geneva on November 24.
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