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Report: Settlement freeze in exchange for Iran sanctions
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Published: 26.08.09, 07:30
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1. I don't dig it
Jerrold Cohen ,   Seal Beach, USA   (08.26.09)
Sorry, I don't dig it at all. You don't appease Israel by doing something to the Iranians you would not otherwise do. Two separate problems. You say freeze the settlements or we end aid to Israel. Now that makes eminent sense.
2. Sanctions, Iran and Bibi's flop
DT ,   TA Israel   (08.26.09)
If true, Bibi has failed- again- and proves he is just weak like the previous government of which there is no difference
3. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other
Eliyahu ,   Yrushalayim   (08.26.09)
Demagoguery. Look up the meaning. How does Iran threatening the world with nuclear war have anything to do with the ethereal conflict conjured by the demagouges? It's a rhetorical question.
4. Sanctions on Iran is an American Interest
Hiroshima ,   Nagasaki   (08.26.09)
5. ISRAEL SHOULD NOT CARE ABOUT THE IRANIAN BOMB!
build more ,   "settlements"   (08.26.09)
THE US AND EUROPE WILL LOSE(THE MIDDLE EAST) MORE IF IRAN BECOMES A NUCLEAR POWER! IRAN IS AMERICAS AND EUROPES PROBLEM! IF IRAN CHOOSES TO FIRE A NUKE AT ISRAEL............ISRAEL SHOULD NUKE ALL THE ARAB COUNTRIES!
6. The settlement issue
jay3 ,   Israel   (08.26.09)
This whole settlement issue is a big scam! Does Obama and the rest of the world really think that if Israel stop construction in the disputed territories, ( its isnt occupied...go look up the meaning of the word occupied!), that the arabs wont want Israel destroyed and the Jews driven out to the see???? Does he really think this would bring about peace? This whole issue that Israeli has no right for expansion is a complete scam thats being pushed by the Arabs.....This land was never called PAlestine, it was called Jordan....and Jordan didnt want it back after losing the land, during the war in 67. Gazza was Egypt....never called PAlestine. Enough of these lies of a country controlled by Arabs called Palestine, its all propaganda! Wake up world! But i dont expect Obama to wake up after all those formative adolescent years at the Indonesian madras he attended .
7. BLACKMAIL !!!.
ORAO STRANKA. ,   TSARIGRAD U SRBIA.   (08.26.09)
Report: Settlement freeze in exchange for Iran sanctions IRAN SANCTIONS WILL NOT STOP IRAN. THIS SHOWS THAT THE US WILL NOT TAKE ACTION AGAINST IRAN AS IN THE CASE WITH NORTH KOREA. According to report, US will take firmer line against Iranian nuclear threat, promote normalization between Israel, Arab states, in exchange for freeze of construction in settlements SANCTIONS WILL NOT REMOVE IRANS NUCLEAR THREAT. NETANYAHU IS A LOOSER AND A JERK, CAVING IN TO BLACKMAIL. "The message is: Iran is an existential threat to Israel; settlements are not." SO WHY THEN MIX THE TWO. SETTLEMENTS FREEZE WILL NOT STOP IRAN, WHAT A SILLY NOTION. REMOVE NETANYAHU THE LOOSER. Orao.
8. Sanctions.. a bankrupt policy.
Peter Morris ,   New Zealand   (08.26.09)
Sanctions e.g. against Iraq have been totally discredited. It is a bankrupt policy brought on by the American political donations system relying on wealthy Jews.. The idea of one country trying to stop the anothers economic progress has no place in the 21st century. Lets hope all unaligned nations get together and stop this evil US/Israeli alliance.
9. Good for the Saudis, bad for the rest
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (08.26.09)
The Saudis have two interests. First, they would like to exterminate the Jews in the Middle East. That is why Obama calls for a "settlement freeze". Second, the Saudis need to eliminate the Persian threat. Hopefully, Netanyahu will call Obama's bluff and tell him Israel will rather live with a nuclear Iran that will subjugate Saudi Arabia than with Obama's apartheid where Jews are not allowed to build homes.
10. linkage schminkage
alan   (08.26.09)
What the US needs Israel's concessions to do what is right for the US. This is an absurd sales pitch that falls on deaf ears. Way back in 07, Obama told AIPAC he was going to do this. American Jews were dumb enough to support him.
11. Bibi
DR ,   Hebron   (08.26.09)
Bye Bye Bibi! If he keeps betraying the people who put him in power new elections are just around the corner.
12. Prime Minister of........ISRAEL?!?!
anna ,   eretz yisroel   (08.26.09)
Mr. Netanyahu, Is there any hope that you will discontinue your penchant for getting into bed with the nations of the world? Am Yisroel, In your own privacy, or publicly as you wish, please strengthen the 613 in order to strengthen the P.M. in the event that he is not strong enough to handle the challenge. Thank you.
13. Strong delusion and a waste of time.
Hen   (08.26.09)
Sanctions don't affect Iran's elites, they've already had 3 decades to store away the nation's wealth in foreign bank vaults. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Bibi would be a leader if he weren't so pitiful and weak.
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