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When President Obama welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House today, Obama will most likely propose that Israel be a test of Iran’s readiness to halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

He won’t put it in such blunt terms of course, but will talk of the supposed linkage that exists between Israel making peace with the Palestinians, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Obama will unsuccessfully try to prove, that there is a connection between an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and Iran’s mullahs giving up their quest for nuclear weapons.

If Obama takes this tack, which is he expected to, he will fail miserably because there is no connection whatsoever between the two issues, and Netanyahu will correctly remain unconvinced.

Obama may then try gentle pressure, which is the most that he can use, but the facts are clear and Obama surely knows them and will respect Netanyahu’s rejection.

Did Iran set out to get nuclear weapons in order to help the Palestinians get a State? Of course not.

Has Iran even faintly suggested that it will halt its pursuit of nuclear weapons if the Palestinians get a State. Never.

Abbas controls nothing, and can hardly order a pizza.

He would lose the West Bank to Hamas in a matter of weeks if Israel were to hand it over to him, and Hamas stated as recently as yesterday that it will never recognize Israel.

So who is Israel supposed to hold peace talks with, and who is it supposed to concede land to?

Where would this new State be, and who would control it?

What is more, even under Abbas’s moderate guidance, Palestinian children are still raised on a diet of hatred in their schools, and specially made cartoons and videos that glorify dying a martyr’s death and others that show Jews drinking babies blood are common place.

There are presently fifty seven Islamic states, but Abbas is recently on record as saying that he will “never accept Israel as a Jewish state”.

Some in the U.S. would like to coerce Israel into some sort of two state deal, simply to see how Iran would respond, since there is not much appetite for either an Iran with nuclear bombs or launching an attack against it at the present time.

Netanyahu is a seasoned politician however, and knowing that Obama cannot force him, he will refuse to allow Israel to be used as a guinea pig.

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Questions are now continually arising regarding Ki-moon, < !– google_ad_section_start –>as to why such things such as Darfur and Afghanistan, interest him far less than the Middle East.

Does he see some lives as worth less than others, or is he subject to paymasters and overlords?

Dear UN Secretary General Ban< !– google_ad_section_end –> Ki-moon, why are you silent? < !– google_ad_section_start –>We hope that you are doing well, and that you are not overly disturbed by what is going on in the Middle East. We understand that the terrible injustices that are taking place around here are making you lose sleep. We are interested to know whether you perhaps heard something, somehow, maybe as a side-note, about the fact that coalition forces killed dozens of innocents in Afghanistan in one bombing?….< !– google_ad_section_end –>

< !– google_ad_section_start –>Afghans allege dozens of civilian deaths from coalition bombing runs

… opinions regarding the civilian casualties, search of Afghan homes and the arrest of Afghans and, therefore, there are tensions in our relations,’ Karzai told a joint press conference with visiting UN < !– google_ad_section_end –>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. …

Headlines: Dozens of Afghan Civilians Killed in U.S. Bombings …

UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon: “I have no authority to edit or change or alter any recommendation and conclusions of this board of inquiry’s judgement. However, because it contains some very sensitive information, then I decided to …

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