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March 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Obama received enthusiastic applause from the audience, which organisers
claimed numbered 13,000, when stressing his threat of military action and
paying tribute to the strength of US-Israeli ties. However his appeal to
halt the drumbeat of war met total silence.
Mr Obama, who has repeatedly faced accusations of coolness to the US-Israeli
alliance, told thousands of activists gathered for the AIPAC conference: “When
the chips are down, I have Israel’s back”.
With his potential Republican
opponents falling over each other to appear more pro-Israeli, he repeatedly
sought to revive his support among Jewish voters, which has dropped since
2008.
Yet as he prepared to face demands from Mr Netanyahu for “red lines”
that would trigger US action if crossed by Iran, he stressed that current
assessments were that Iran had no weapon. “In 2012, the Iranian
government faces the prospect of even more crippling sanctions,” he
added.
Mr Obama was praised by Shimon Peres, Israel’s president, who told the
conference he was “leading and implementing an international, complex
and decisive policy” towards the crisis.
“There is no space between us,” Mr Peres claimed of the US-Israel
approach to the crisis. “Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon.”
His enthusiastic endorsement appeared to be an attempt to thaw the frosty
relationship between Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu, who is frustrated with mixed
messages emerging from Washington. Israeli officials have indicated their
uncertainty of Mr Obama’s commitment may force their own strike on Iran this
year.
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, Sunday said American pressure
would not affect Israeli thinking. “We are an independent sovereign
state, and at the end of the day, the state of Israel will make the most
correct decisions as we understand them,” he said.
Israeli government sources suggested that in his own speech to AIPAC today, Mr
Netanyahu would take a much harder line and “break new ground” in
his remarks about Iran.
Mr Obama has toughened his rhetoric in the approach to their summit, telling
an interviewer last week: “When I say that a situation in which Iran
has nuclear weapons is something that is unacceptable, I meant it, I don’t
bluff.” Former senior officials from the George W. Bush administration
said Mr Obama should be taking a more aggressive stance.
Elliott Abrams, a senior White House aide to Mr Bush, said he believed Mr
Obama’s current stance was failing to dissuade the Israeli administration
from attacking. “I just don’t think it’s going to do it,” Mr
Abrams told The Daily Telegraph. “They want a clearer statement that
the US would absolutely prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Mr Abrams said “high-ranking Arab diplomats” were telling him that
the US might as well attack before Israel does. “They say ‘you’re going
to get blamed anyway if Israel strikes, because people will think you were
complicit. The difference is that you’ll do it a lot better – so do it’,”
he said.
• North Korea may have exploded an Iranian nuclear bomb in 2010
in a secret test, a German defence expert has claimed.
In
an article published in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Hans Ruhle, a
former German defence ministry official, cited evidence of two small nuclear
tests in April and May 2010, and argued that one of them was for a “foreign
entity, in this case Iran”.
The claim contradicts analysis from both Israeli and American intelligence
that says Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, and, if true, could shift
the balance of power in the Middle East.
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