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To: LindyBill who wrote (358451)	4/8/2010 8:21:44 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793890

Netanyahu cancels trip to DC Nuclear Security Summit By JPOST.COM STAFF 09/04/2010 02:19 The move came amid US warnings that Turkey and Egypt plan to lead a motion demanding that Israel open its nuclear facilities for international inspection. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not attend next week's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington and is sending Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor instead, Army Radio reported Thursday. US sources informed Israel that a group of participating Arab countries led by Turkey and Egypt plan to use the summit to demand that Israel sign the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and allow its alleged nuclear capabilities to be placed under international inspection. Previously, Jerusalem has received assurances from the US administration that it would not let the issue take over the conference, which is to focus on keeping nuclear capabilities out of the hands of terrorists, government sources said. More than 40 world leaders will attend the conference on Monday and Tuesday. Netanyahu characterized as a “very serious issue” the danger that “nuclear weapons, even crude nuclear weapons, could find their way into the hands of terrorists.” This, he said, would have “dire consequences” for all humanity. A government source told Army Radio: "Israel participates in the effort to prevent nuclear technology reaching the hands of terrorists, and on this basis we agreed to take part in the summit. But reports surfacing in the last 24 hours indicated the intention of various states to assail Israel regarding the NPT. In summits of this nature, Israel is usually represented on the ministerial and professional levels. The Prime Minister has accordingly decided that Meridor will head the delegation." In a related development, a senior government official said the government needed to convince the Obama administration that talk about the US imposing a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was counterproductive, would harden Palestinian positions, and was unrealistic because a solution could not be imposed on the sides if they didn’t agree. The official’s comments came in response to reports on Wednesday in both The Washington Post and The New York Times that President Barack Obama was considering launching an American peace plan in the fall that would replace the step-by-step approach favored by US Middle East envoy George Mitchell. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley downplayed the idea at a briefing on Wednesday, advising journalists to steer away “from the idea that we are going to try to, at this point, impose a particular view on the parties.” Rather, Crowley said, the idea is to have the two sides get into negotiations where they will address the core issues, and that the US “can help them” and, as has been done in the past, “offer ideas on how to bridge differences.” Crowley said the US focus right now “is getting them into the proximity talks, into negotiations, and then we’ll see what happens after that.” No new date, meanwhile, has been set for Mitchell to return to the region and push the talks forward. jpost.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (358451)	4/8/2010 10:50:57 PM
From: skinowski	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793890

Netanyahu doesn't want to waste his time spending days listening to anti-Israeli propaganda. What a surprise.

To: LindyBill who wrote (358451)	4/9/2010 1:00:44 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793890

Netanyahu had his fill of Obama and his trickery when he was here...Who in the heck can blame him for not going to the meeting? It is beyond foolish to tell the enemy what we are going to do even before the enemy tries to negotiate even more demands....Some headlines as of tonight: Drudge: NO-GO: NETANYAHU FEARS ISLAMIC AMBUSH GINGRICH: Obama 'most radical president ever'... LIMBAUGH: Obama 'inflicting untold damage on this great country'... PALIN: Obama's Nuke Stance Like Kid Who Says 'Punch Me in Face'... LIZ CHENEY: Obama Putting America on 'Path to Decline'... SAVAGE: 'Obama The Destroyer'... I'm sorry, I can't stand to listen to Savage, even if sometimes he is correct. He gives the other folks a bad name and a bad rap, and just makes the O Adm to try even more to rid themselves of their perceived enemies. The article to the first NoGo headline: af.reuters.com