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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (10767)	4/21/2006 12:15:18 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Crimson > 400 liberal rabbis send letter to Bush If that letter is from liberal rabbis I hate to see what the conservative rabbis would say. >>2) Nevertheless, for the new Hamas-led Palestinian government to achieve international recognition and standing, it must "recognize Israel, disarm, reject terrorism, and work for lasting peace," just as you specified in your State of the Union address.<< How can Hamas "recognise" Israel as a prerequisite to any dealings with Israel when the boundaries of Israel are precisely what the argument is all about? The "recognition" of Israel has to be the result of negotiations with Hamas not a prelude to those negotiations and so by insisting that Hamas "recognises" Israel, the liberal rabbis effectively support the extremist Likud position which is not to negotiate with Hamas, or whoever, and impose a unilateral "solution".

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (10767)	4/21/2006 6:16:36 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Russia tells the US exactly where it stands on Iran. today.reuters.com >>Russia would approve sanctions on Iran only if it saw hard evidence that Tehran's nuclear program was not peaceful, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying on Friday. The United States and some other major powers believe Iran may be building a nuclear bomb. But they say evidence that Iran is not complying with the United Nations nuclear watchdog is enough on its own to justify sanctions. Russia -- a U.N. Security Council veto-holder -- has said it is not convinced that sanctions would persuade Iran to abandon uranium enrichment. But Moscow has not before been explicit about what evidence it would need to consider sanctions. "We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete facts confirming that Iran is not exclusively involved in peaceful nuclear activities," Tass quoted spokesman Mikhail Kamynin as saying. A Russian national security official said separately that sanctions did not figure on Russia's agenda at this stage. Asked about the prospect of sanctions, Nikolai Spassky, deputy head of Russia's National Security Council said: "That question does not exist. For us at this stage it does not exist. We are discussing it," RIA news agency reported. Spassky also rejected a call made this week by a senior State Department official for Russia to cancel the planned sale of its Tor tactical surface-to-air missile systems to Iran. "There are no circumstances which would get in the way of us carrying out our commitments in the field of military cooperation with Iran," Tass quoted Spassky as saying. "That includes ... our commitment to supply Tor systems to Iran," he said.<<