De invloed van de Israëllobby op het Amerikaanse Iranbeleid
Obama continueert Iranbeleid Bush - 3
Gerelateerde serie van DeepJournal: Het Andere Gezicht van Barack Obama. Zoals Amerika Israël nodig heeft, heeft AIPAC Washington nodig, voor steun en financiële middelen. Zeker met betrekking tot het probleem Iran. 'When AIPAC activists mount the buses March 23 to go meet their representatives on Capitol Hill, they'll be carrying an advocacy message that emphasizes Iran as the immediate and current concern. In lobbying meetings following the conference, AIPAC will also ask members of Congress to complete the new Iran sanctions bill, which has passed both chambers and is now awaiting reconciliation between the two versions in the conference committee, schrijft Haaretz. De krant schrijft ook dat AIPAC er bij Congresleden op zal aandringen een brief aan het Witte Huis te ondertekenen. Daarin wordt de VS opgeroepen voorbij te gaan aan de VN Veiligheidsraad door sancties tegen Iran in te stellen. Het Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Smith vertelt in een interview (4'25) dat het Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) sinds 2004 is gehuisvest in het ministerie van Financiën. Het wordt geleid door de door Bush aangestelde, en de door Obama gehandhaafde Stuart Levey. De Wall Street Journal schrijft: '[...] Stuart Levey, will travel to Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. "We are pointing out that they face dramatic risks by doing business with Iran," Mr. Levey said in an interview Tuesday'. Smith: 'It looks as though what it's trying to do is to surround and encompass Iran and maybe, if they're really lucky, get them to leave the Non Proliferation Treaty so that Iran can become an even easier target. [...] It's rapidly proven itself to be mainly a sharp edged tool for setting a lot of these trip wires'. 'Het TFI is als het OSP, het Office of Special Plans' McGovern: Israël is de olifant in de kamer Het negeren van de olifant vindt volgens McGovern zijn wortels in de 'time-worn “passionate attachment” of U.S. leaders to Israel's short-term interests as if they were identical to those of the United States'. Om het in de woorden te zeggen van de Amerikaanse vice-president Joe Biden, begin deze maand uitgesproken in Israël: 'The cornerstone of the relationship is our absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel's security. Bibi, you heard me say before, progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel. There is no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security. And for that reason, and many others, addressing Iran's nuclear program has been of -- one of our administration's priorities'. Volgens McGovern houdt Israël met betrekking tot Iran de VS in een houdgreep. Zijn oplossing: 'This politically super-sensitive issue needs to be addressed openly and without fear'. 'Otherwise, there is virtually no prospect of lessened tensions, and a near-term prospect that things can get dramatically worse — an Israeli provocation and/or a preventive strike on Iran, for example'.
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