'US Warned China That Israel Could Bomb Iran'
By Jpost.com staff and ap
November 26, 2009 "Jerusalem Post" -- Two senior officials from the White House, Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Bader, made a trip to China on a "special mission" to garner support in Beijing over the Iranian nuclear program, according to a Thursday report in The Washington Post. The officials visited China two weeks before US President Barack Obama arrived in Beijing.
The officials reportedly carried the message that if China would not support the US on the issue, Israel would be likely to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. The paper quoted the officials as saying that Israel saw the issue as "an existential issue," and that "countries that have an existential issue don't listen to other countries."
They stressed that were Israel to bomb Iran, the consequences for the region would be severe.
The efforts seemed to have yielded results, according to White House officials quoted in the report, as the six world powers, including both China and Russia, put together a resolution critical of Iran's nuclear program earlier this week.
The development was significant as it groups Russia and China with the four Western powers - the US, Britain, France and Germany - in unified criticism of Iran's nuclear program. Russia and China have acted as a drag on Western calls for tougher action against Iran.
While the board passed an IAEA resolution critical of Iran in 2006 with the support of all six world powers, subsequent attempts by the West to get backing from all 35 board nations foundered on resistance from Russia and China.
While any board resolution is mostly symbolic, it does get reported to the UN Security Council. Beyond that, unified action in Vienna could signal that both Russia and China may be more amenable to a fourth set of Security Council sanctions on Iran than they have been in past years.
The draft urges Iran to open its nuclear program to wider perusal by the IAEA, they said. As well, it calls on Iran to answer all outstanding questions on that enrichment facility, comply with UN Security Council demands that it suspend enrichment and further construction of the plant, and stop stonewalling an IAEA probe of allegations it tried to develop nuclear weapons.
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China's Backing on Iran Followed Dire Predictions
Before Obama's visit, NSC warned leaders of Mideast turmoil
By John Pomfret and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
November 26, 2009 "Washington Post" -- Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a "special mission" to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
If Beijing did not help the United States on this issue, the consequences could be severe, the visitors, Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Bader, both senior officials in the National Security Council, informed the Chinese.
The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran's nuclear program as an "existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don't listen to other countries," according to a senior administration official. The implication was clear: Israel could bomb Iran, leading to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region and almost inevitably problems over the very oil China needs to fuel its economic juggernaut, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Earlier this week, the White House got its answer. China informed the United States that it would support a toughly worded, U.S.-backed statement criticizing the Islamic republic for flouting U.N. resolutions by constructing a secret uranium-enrichment plant. The statement, obtained by The Washington Post, is part of a draft resolution to be taken up as soon as Thursday by the 35 nations that make up the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
While largely symbolic, it is the first such declaration since 2006 to be backed by both China and Russia. And the statement marks a departure for China, which has long refrained from criticizing Iran's nuclear policies. The issue of how China will handle the Iranian nuclear issue has emerged as an early test of what Obama has described as a relationship that "will shape the 21st century."
Given its backing even from Iran's erstwhile allies, European diplomats on Wednesday predicted easy passage of the resolution, which calls Tehran's construction of an underground enrichment plant near Qom a "breach of its obligations" under U.N. and IAEA guidelines. If approved, the resolution will be referred to the U.N. Security Council, which could decide to enact harsher sanctions against the Islamic republic.
"Our patience is not going to last forever," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, whose government drafted the resolution, told reporters on the eve of the IAEA session.
But while diplomats and arms-control experts welcomed China's support of the IAEA resolution, some acknowledged that it is not clear whether Russia or China would go further and agree to new sanctions against Iran. Attempts to reach officials at the Chinese Embassy for comment were unsuccessful.
"They're expressing displeasure with Iran, but whether that translates into a U.N. Security Council resolution is another matter," said David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector and president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
Iran, which insists that it wants to harness nuclear power only to make electricity, this week acknowledged feeling new pressure from Russia over its expanding nuclear network. A top military commander, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hassan Mansourian, told state-run Press TV that Russia had reneged on supplying promised military technology "due to pressure form the Zionist lobby and the Americans."
The visit to Beijing last month by the senior White House aides was described as part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to isolate Iran. In making their case to China, administration officials warned that a nuclear Iran not only would raise the risk of a regional conflict, higher oil prices and even interrupted supplies, it could also trigger a surge in nuclear proliferation.
The Chinese were told that "this could shake the entire framework of the international nonproliferation regime," said the official who was familiar with the lengthy analysis Ross laid out.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt could start their own nuclear programs, the Chinese were told. "And once Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey go, what's left?" the official said. The implication again was clear: Japan, China's biggest competitor for influence in the region, could go nuclear as well, the official said.
Obama reinforced those messages during his trip to China last week in meetings with President Hu Jintao, the official said. "Both Dennis and the president talked about the consequences of Iran moving toward having highly-enriched-uranium capacity," the official said.
The United States wants China to back sanctions against Iran if Tehran refuses a proposal to send most of its current stockpile of low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into fuel rods for a research reactor in Iran.
China has said it opposes sanctions against Iran; China's state-run energy behemoths have committed to investing $120 billion in Iran's energy sector over the past five years, and few if any of those projects have broken ground. Iran is also China's No. 2 supplier of oil. Earlier this week, Sinopec, one of China's biggest oil companies, signed another memorandum of understanding with the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Co. to invest an additional $6.5 billion to build oil refineries in Iran.
From the start of his administration, Obama has lobbied the Chinese over Iran. The issue dominated his discussions with Hu during their meeting at the U.N. General Assembly in September. Obama referred to the issue with Iran as "a core national interest" of the United States, a conscious use of a term China employs on sensitive issues such as Taiwan and Tibet. "It's their terminology coming back at them, emphasizing how critical" the issue is to the United States, the U.S. official said.
U.S. officials have also attempted to explore ways to help to wean China off Iranian oil, State Department officials have said. Officials from the United Arab Emirates have said they plan to increase oil exports to China. Saudi Arabia is also moving toward closer ties with Beijing that would clearly involve selling more oil to China, officials said.
© 2009 The Washington Post Company
Zie: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24067.htm
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Ja, dat is de wereld in de broekzak en nu schijn ik antisemiet te zijn.
anzi
Duitsland helemaal in de broekzak, vriendschap groeit, Israel uber alles.
Germany has limited patience on Iran, new FM says
November 24, 2009
BERLIN (JTA) -- A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, Germany's new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Guido Westerwelle, of the Free Democratic Party, also urged quick resumption of Middle East peace talks, with a two-state solution as the goal.
Meeting Monday in Jerusalem with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, Westerwelle said Germany's "patience [with Iran] is not endless." Further sanctions against the Islamic Republic are possible, with or without the cooperation of other countries, he added. Lieberman stressed the importance of international unity on the matter.
Westerwelle's visit comes on the eve of the second annual German-Israel joint cabinet meeting -- a unique program initiated in March 2008 by Chancellor Angela Merkel during her first official visit to Israel. The meetings are to take place alternately in Israel and Germany.
During his visit this week, Westerwelle, who was sharply critical of Israel's settlement policy in his recent opening address in Berlin as foreign minister, also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad. But he did not bring up the issue of settlements in public statements, according to the French news agency AFP.
The foreign minister also visited Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem. According to reports, Westerwelle wrote in the guestbook that "We will not forget. Our responsibility remains -- our friendship grows."
Westerwelle met Tuesday with Israeli President Shimon Peres before returning to Berlin.
anzi
Katze in het bakkie
Außenminister Westerwelle in Israel als Freund empfangen
Der deutsche Außenminister Guido Westerwelle wurde gestern als Freund in Israel empfangen. Am Flughafen von Tel Aviv wurde er vom stellvertretenden israelischen Außenminister Danny Ayalon mit folgenden Worten der Bewunderung und mit Freundschaftsbekundungen herzlich willkommen geheißen: „Herr Minister, we admire you. We admire your country. You are here with friends“…
Von seinem Besuch in der Holocaust-Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem war der deutsche Außenminister Guido Westerwelle tief beeindruckt: „Die Bilder von Yad Vashem sind erschütternd. Wer sie sieht, weiß, dass unser Land für immer eine besondere Verantwortung für den Staat Israel hat. Wir dürfen niemals vergessen, was geschehen ist. Und wir müssen alles tun, um die Freundschaft zwischen Deutschland und Israel zu pflegen und eine gemeinsame Zukunft zu gestalten.“ Guido Westerwelle hat sich hierfür sehr viel Zeit genommen.
Der deutsche Außenminister wurde auf seinem Antrittsbesuch in Israel von Charlotte Knobloch, der Präsidentin des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland, begleitet. „Die Reise von Außenminister Westerwelle ist als überaus positiv für die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen zu werten“, bekräftigt die Zentralratspräsidentin. „Der Außenminister hat seine Solidarität mit dem jüdischen Staat deutlich zum Ausdruck gebracht und seinen Willen, auch in Zukunft eine besondere Verantwortung zu übernehmen, betont.“
Pressemitteilung von Frau Dr. h. c. Charlotte Knobloch, Präsidentin des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland.
anzi
Buenas Dias Stan,
Van Water en modder word je steenrijk hoe ?
Eenvoudig je pikt het uit de grote vijver van je buurman en je broer(die chemicus is) maakt er(met een simpele formule)een Bio zalfje van en met een mooie naam erop verkoop je het voor een smerige prijs aan de onnozelen!
De VN heeft de Westelijke Jordaanoever officieel tot bezet gebied verklaard
Bij de productie van Ahava(=Liefde)-cosmetica maakt het bedrijf gebruik van water en modder uit de Palestijnse gebieden.
De Kamer van koophandel (camaracatalanoisraeli)hier in Cataluya,
The Chamber of Commerce Israel Catalunya is an initiative of a group of Catalan businessmen that have a deep knowledge of both countries. The Chamber aims to deepen economic ties and cultural links between Catalonia and Israel, two countries with many similarities: demographic and geo-economics with a rich common cultural past.
Historically, many of the great figures of Jewish thought were born in Catalonia and its existence was made possible by the ability to work and innovation that has always characterized Catalonia.
Catalonia underwent the second industrial revolution in Europe, after Manchester and the surroundings of Barcelona pioneered the installation of steam railway and textile machines in Spain, with the help of visionaries like Eiffel, who built here several structures, especially bridges, in the country.
Catalonia and Israel recovered their language at the same time and by the same method, returning to the ancient texts. This titanic task was achieved by Eliezer Ben Yehuda and Pompeu Fabra.
The Chamber is currently chaired by D. Miguel Szpiniak, supported by a team of engineers, lawyers, merchants, and businessmen.
Leuk he,samen de ladder op hand in hand (niet naar beneden kijken hoor!)
Even terug naar modder,water,jatten en Money(Big Money)
Minerals and Fertilizers
Dead Sea Works produces around 3.5 tons of potash annually, together with ICL worldwide facilities, producing almost 10% of the world’s requirements.In a joint venture with Volkswagen, ICL produces 40,000 tons of magnesium annually.Israel is one of the world leaders in the production of white phosphoric acid.Haifa Chemicals, with two production facilities, is the largest producer of Potassium Nitrate in the world.Efforts began in 2006 to reopen Timna mines in the Negev in order to produce pure copper, with a goal of producing over 20,000 tons annually.
Bromine, Refined Oils and Petrochemicals
http://camaracatalanoisraeli.com/israel-a-resilient-economy/israel%e2%80%99s-competitive-edge/israel-chemicals-industry/
Vaya pozo de mierda por DIOS!
PVV vreest aanval van Iran.
De apocalyptische dreiging die de PVV over Nederland wil uitstorten gaat over een bericht in een Amerikaans conservatief krantje van 5 jaar geleden. Van de 'Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack', en u snapt het wel, dat is geen wetenschappelijk instituut maar een lobbyclub van wapenfabrikanten die hun voordeel doen met angstpropaganda. Waar ik veel banger van wordt is hoe de geldschieters van de PVV, ultrarechtse Amerikaanse joden, middels de PVV invloed krijgen in ons parlement.
De PVV heeft het in de telegraaf over een rapport van de CIA. Lees in The Next Fake Threat (2005!):
"EMP Commission senior staff member and ex-CIA analyst Peter Pry refers to an Iranian political military journal article translated by the CIA to support this allegation. He employs ellipses in an artful, but deceitful way to weave together quotes from this article. Problem is that this journal article doesn't mention EMP or nuclear weapons at all. It discusses attacks on communications, but by computer attacks, not by EMP -- a blatant misuse of documentation to support the EMP Commission's case."
The Next Fake Threat (Alternet 2005)
The members of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack (EMP Commission) have impressive credentials, yet they are also deeply tangled up with pro-missile defense organizations and the defense industry.
The EMP Threat: Lots of Hype, Little Traction (Right Web 2009)
Last month, Christian conservatives’ favorite presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, headlined a national conference in Niagara, New York, titled “Protecting America Against Permanent Continental Shutdown From Electromagnetic Pulse.”
Sponsored by EMPACT America, an organization allied with several leading rightwing advocacy groups, the conference drew some 800 people who came to hear about what organizers regard as a growing threat to the United States: an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that allegedly could destroy much of the country’s infrastructure and send it back to the 19th century.
Christian conservatives [fear an] attack that allegedly could destroy much of the country’s infrastructure and send it back to the 19th century.
Dat begrijp ik nooit van die lui.
Dat is toch precies wat ze zouden moeten willen?
Volgens mij zijn zij alleen "conservstief" op het punt waarop ze vrouwen kunnen afknijpen (abortus enz.).
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