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Israeli ambassador: 'Tectonic rift'
2010-06-28
Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren is reported to have told Israeli diplomats that the U.S. and Israel are experiencing a “tectonic rift,' not a temporary crisis.

“There is no crisis in Israel-US relations because in a crisis there are ups and downs,' Oren told a a closed briefing to senior officials in the Israeli Foreign Ministry's North America Branch and research division, Yedioth Ahronoth's Itamar Eichner reports.

“According to the Israeli diplomats, Oren said …'Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart,'' Haaretz said.

“Oren noted that contrary to Obama's predecessors - George W. Bush and Bill Clinton - the current president is not motivated by historical-ideological sentiments toward Israel but by cold interests and considerations,' Haaretz reports. “He added that his access as Israel's ambassador to senior administration officials and close advisers of the president is good. But Obama has very tight control over his immediate environment, and it is hard to influence him. ‘This is a one-man show,' Oren is quoted as saying.'

Oren told Haaretz he denied the report, which the paper attributed to "five Israeli diplomats, some of whom took part in the briefing or were informed about the details." The Israeli Embassy did not immediately respond to query from POLITICO Sunday.

Oren's remarks come ahead of a July 6 meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama. The White House meeting – the fifth between Netanyahu and Obama — had been originally scheduled to take place earlier this month but was postponed after Israel's interception of a Gaza aid flotilla on May 31. The confrontation, in which eight Turks and one Turkish American were killed, has caused a crisis in Israeli-Turkish relations which the U.S. has been trying to defuse.

Oren told the diplomats that the Gaza flotilla violence had sparked international outrage.

"Even our close friends came out against us," Haaretz reported Oren told the closed diplomatic briefing. "Only after some time, when video from the ship arrived and was aired by the American media, did public opinion begin to shift in Israel's favor."

Obama met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Toronto Saturday.

“The two leaders had a wide-ranging and candid discussion between allies that addressed Iran's nuclear program, Middle East peace, the flotilla incident, Afghanistan, the PKK and terrorism,' according to the White House readout of the conversation.
Posted by:Goodluck

#2  COMET APOPHIS 2029-2036 + GUAM, EARTH-VISIBLE MOON EXPLOSIONS > Back in "Battlestar/Colonial" Yarn 2010, our future OWG-NWO may suffer

To wit,

* LACK OF $$$ to build effective + reliable OWG = GLOBAL SPACE DEFENSES.
* BP OIL GUSH "PLANET KILLER" = LITTLE TO NO FUEL TO POWER THE ENGINES OF OUR MIGHTY, ANTI-SPACE ROCK LR STRATEGIC MISSLES, NOR FOR OIL-DERIVED ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR SAME.
* OWG "BUREAUCRACY".
* As per the MSM-Net, iff MANY or MOST or even ALL of our US-World Perts are WRONG = "MOSTLY WRONG" ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING, i.e. MAN + ONLY MAN [Human Govt-Society] BEING THE SOLE/UNIQUE CAUSE OF GW = DUBYA, DARE THE PERTS BE WRONG = "MOSTLY WRONG" ABOUT ANYTHING OR EVERYTHING ELSE, e.g. APOPHIS or OTHER INCOMING SPACE ROCKS = SPACE NEOS ETC., "BEST" MATH + MODELS + THEORIES, FOR SAME???

AND, NOT counting 2013 + SUN-SPECIFIC SOLAR = GEOMAGNETIC STORMS.....natural space phenominae.

But I digress....

Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-06-28 22:11  

#1  "Tectonic Rift" > All things equal, sa the adage goes, THATS 9-11 + WOT, e.g. A WAR/STRUGGLE FOR OWG-NWO INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PRO-US-VERSUS ANTI-US OWG, ETC. AKA "ANTI-STATUS QUO" = EFFECT OR CHANGE(S) TO THE PRESENT NATIONAL-GLOBAL ORDER.

The US is not immune, nor for that matter Radical Islam or World Islam [Saudi Arabia vs Egypt vs Tehran vs Turkey vs Indonesia, etc. for CONTROL OF ISLAM].

Lest we fergit, 1990's CLINTONISM > RIGHTISM IS THE NEW LEFISM, FASCISM IS THE NEW COMMUNISM, USSA IS NOW THE USSR, GLOBALISM + COMMUNALISM/COMMUNITARIAN-ISM IS THE NEW NATIONALISM = INDIVIDUALISM, COMMUNISN IS THE NEW CAPITALISM [dare we fergit "Commpitalism"]
....@???

20th century "POLITIX-AS-USUAL" + SIMILAR IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE NOR TOLERATED, BY ANYONE - the Good, the Bad, the Fugly + Ugly, etal. NOT EVEN BY THE MODERATES/CENTRISTS???

as supplemented by

* FREEREPUBLIC > [C2CAm Show]BP OIL SPILL PLANET KILLER.

IOW, NOT just a LOCAL OR REGIONAL ENVIRO KILLER, BUT A "PLANET KILLER"???

"PLANET KILLER" > Thus of course, GOOD OWG + "GLOBALISM" demands our Politicos let the Gulf Oil Spill go on for many more Months, Years or perhaps Decades? while OWG GEOPOL POSTURING = HEIARCHAL "POLE POSITION" IS BEING SET UP.

Once again , wid feeling, "AIRPLANE" Comedy Movie skit > POINT COUNTERPOINT > THEY BUILT THAT DEEPWATER OIL RIG [thingy] FAIR + SQUARE - I SAY, LET IT GUSH!

D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, NUTHIN SAYS OWG-NWO + "STAR TREK" THAN THE FUTURE NEW OWG STARTING OUT WID COMMIE OR SOCIALIST-STYLE "UNIVERSAL/
GLOBAL REGRESSIONISM", i.e. THE NEW OWG HAS NO OIL-ENERGY + THE MASSES ARE "PERMANENTLY POOR BUT OPTIMISTIC", vee GREATER-AND-LONGER-THAN-1929 GLOBAL ECON RECESSION-DEPRESSION???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-06-28 21:49  

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