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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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Geithner on TV – “Keynesian economics has failed” | ZeroHedge

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Some refreshing words from the Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner this morning on Meet the Press. He had this to say: (15:20 into this clip) Note: An 8 second clip of Tim's words: Link We don't have the ability (because of the …

A majority of forty nine economists that were recently polled by the Wall Street Journal are largely dissatisfied with the administration’s ongoing economic policies, something which is in stark contrast to grades given him by the public.

On average, the economists gave Obama a mark of 59 out of 100 with 42% of the respondents grading him below 60 out of 100.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner got the lowest average grade of 51 and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke scored best with an average mark of 71.

Forty three percent of the economists were seriously unimpressed by the $787 billion stimulus package and believed that an additional stimulus package of around $500 billion would soon be necessary.A majority of forty nine economists that were recently polled by the Wall Street Journal are largely dissatisfied with the administration’s ongoing economic policies, something which is in stark contrast to grades given him by the public.