Clinton: Israel risks losing support on Iran

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautioned Israel's right-wing government on Thursday that it risked losing Arab support for fighting any threats from Iran if it shuns Palestinian peace talks.

Signaling U.S. impatience with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reticence over peace talks, Clinton said Arab nations had made clear to her that Israel must be committed to the Palestinian peace process if it wants help countering Iran.

"For Israel to get the kind of strong support it is looking for vis-a-vis Iran, it can't stay on the sidelines with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts. They go hand in hand," she told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.
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Israel sees a nuclear-armed threat as a mortal threat.

"They believe that Israel's willingness to re-enter into discussions with the Palestinian Authority strengthens them in being able to deal with Iran," she added.

Since coming into power last month, Netanyahu and his right-leaning coalition have avoided recognizing the Palestinians' right to an independent state as his predecessor Ehud Olmert did.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080674.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. Iran is no threat to Israel or anyone else. The real threat to Israel, and to everyone else, is...

The Taleban taking over Pakistan and getting their hands, and Al-Qaeda's hands, on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and nuclear tipped missiles.

[Howardx]

2. thanks

had not seen it

[coffeenap]

3. Thank you--just got in a fight with my supposedly progressive rabbi

about this very subject--he sent out a "crazy" email to the congregation exclaiming the next holocaust is coming! His source was this:http://www.jcpa.org/
which links itself to The Heritage Foundation and The Cato Institute, among others. Scared the hell out of me and I told him so--he was not amused....I would send him this and the Tikkun statement but I think I already gave him high blood pressure.