Netanyahu, at his May 18 meetings in Washington with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, intends to prioritize the Iran threat over talks on potential negotiations with Syria or Lebanon and even over the Palestinian issue.
2. Who is this Michael Oren person, Israel's new ambassador to Washington? He is Mossad, so Watch Out he looks dangerous as hell. Both of these excerpts are from the Jewish perspective.
http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2009/05/mossads-ambassador-to-washington.html
What my correspondents didn't know was the Oren was not a nobody in the Israeli establishment, he was a Mossad, at least, asset, and probably much more than that. And the Mossad has decided to primp and prime him as a future Prime Minister for their purposes, though not necessarily for Israel's good.
Also this: http://elliotjager.com/2009/05/israels-next-ambassador-to-united.html
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman jointly made the selection, which will take effect in time for Oren to accompany the premier to Washington for his May 18 meeting with President Barack Obama.
THE Washington ambassadorial job is arguably Israel's most important diplomatic posting.
Naturally, it entails representing our government. But it also requires the ambassador to ensure that the prime minister understands which way the wind is blowing at the White House, Foggy Bottom and on Capitol Hill. Moreover, the ambassador is the face of Israel to the American people.
...
Here at last is a figure at ease on the public stage, someone who knows what he's talking about and can speak to Americans in their own language.
We at The Jerusalem Post take pride in the appointment of a fellow Anglo, a reconfirmation of what immigrants can achieve in Israel. For in Oren we have an American who came here, served in an elite unit, and then worked tirelessly to improve the way the world understands our country and the region.
3. Iran questions wisdom behind new US threats
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi has questioned the wisdom behind a US Congress initiative to choke off gasoline supplies to the oil-rich country.
Despite claims of seeking a new beginning with Iran, the US government has threatened the Tehran government with further unilateral sanctions should potential negotiations over the country's disputed nuclear program fail.
Congress is currently considering a bill, the Iran Diplomatic Enhancement Act, which has the backing of 25 senators and seeks to punish non-US firms for supplying gasoline to Iran -- which imports about 40 percent of its gasoline demand.
The legislation, which has the strong support of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), seeks to target five major European firms -- the Swiss firm Vitol, the Swiss/Dutch firm Trafigura, the French firm Total, Switzerland's Glencore and British Petroleum -- and the Indian firm Reliance, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency.
Read more @ Press TV
4. Lo and Behold, Iran launches airstrikes on Iraqi villages
Iranian aircraft attacked three villages inside Iraq over the weekend. The airstrikes — Iran’s first on Iraqi soil since the U.S. invasion — could complicate the Obama administration’s efforts to normalize relations with Tehran.
“The bombardments appeared to have targeted the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish separatist group which has launched attacks on Iran from rear-supply bases in the mountains of northern Iraq,” AFP reports. Iran has attacked the Kurdish group before, with artillery. But this is the first time the Iranians followed up, with assaults from the air.
“The incident comes a week after reports of a clash between Iranian police officers and suspected PJAK fighters in the country’s western province of Kermanshah,” Al-Jazeera reports. “At least 10 policemen and 10 fighters were killed in the gun battle.”
Details on the airstrikes remain sketchy. [oh i bet] Voice of America says the attacks were carried out by helicopters, which remained in Iranian airspace. Al-Arabiyah television, on the other hand, says it was “Iranian planes [that] raided those villages.”
It is a serious development because the Iraqi airspace is under the control of the US Air Force and under US protection. So the raids are either approved by the United States, as was the case when a US nod was previously given to the Turkish Army, or such operation was a surprise by the Iranians. According to eyewitnesses, the planes were flying at very low altitudes, which may indicate that they were trying to escape detection by radars. So these planes were able to attack many locations. Eyewitnesses and official Kurdish sources said that the raids were carried out by fighter jets and not helicopters.
In February, American fighter jets shot down an Iranian drone flying over Iraq. Such an incursion would’ve likely provoked an angry response from the previous administration. But the reaction to the drone incident was muted — perhaps in the interest of keeping the dialogue with Tehran going. [The dialog that's not going so well (see above)? The dialog that has to fail so that Israel can get it's war with Iran on? - ed.]
via Pimpin Turtle
5. And meanwhile, things are heating back up in Georgia, which you *are* supposed to know because it was in the LA Times.
As forces ringed the rebel base to seal it off and tanks rumbled toward the mutiny from Tbilisi, the government announced that it had thwarted a widespread military rebellion. A former, Soviet-era special forces commander was arrested on charges of orchestrating the coup, an Interior Ministry official said, and at least one other alleged organizer was being sought.
Additional links and commentary here by Lord Stirling:
Mutiny foiled in Georgia ahead of NATO exercises ~ link ~ See also: Georgia foils Russian backed coup on eve of NATO exercises ~ link ~ Also see: Mutiny under way in Georgia ~ link ~ See also: Opposition threatens roadblocks if Saakashvili refuses to resign ~ link ~ See also: Snap Analysis ~ link ~ The holding of major military maneuvers on the battlefield of a war only nine months old, with Russian troops in place eyeball-to-eyeball is simply foolhardy to the point of criminal. It must be remembered that the NeoCon puppet, neck tie eating, Saakashvili, using American and Israeli arms, with over 1,000 Israeli commandos and a senior "retired" Israeli general calling the shots, murdered over a thousand Russian civilians in their homes at the beginning of the last war. It was only the personal intervention of the French President that stopped Putin from going through with his publicly stated intention of "hanging Saakashvili by his balls". These large NATO military exercises are simply a part of the Illuminati's laying the groundwork for the coming Iran War/general Middle Eastern war to quickly become World War III.
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