Obama's a liar.no one should trust or believe a word he says.
B 13 14 - The Jewish Tribune -October 14, 2010 www.jewishtribune.ca Largest Jewish Weekly in Canada C A R D A short history of US guarantees Yitzhak Heimowitz US President Barack Obama seems surprised that Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is not buying his letter of guarantees to extend the building moratorium for another 6o days. It's hard to see why he is surprised. One of the first things he did when becoming president was to declare that the letter of guarantees which US President George W. Bush gave to former PM Arik Sharon did not bind him or the US, so who can believe that any letter of guarantees he gives now will be any more binding than that? Furthermore, he also wants to give a counter letter of guarantees to the Palestinians, essentially promising them the opposite of whatever he promises Bibi. He also promises (cross his heart and hope to die) that he won't ask for any further extension after 60 days. If anyone believes that, I have a Brooklyn Bridge in fairly good condition to sell to him. I don't own it, but why should that matter? The history of American guarantees to Israel is not a happy one. In 1956-57, to get Israel to withdraw from Sinai, the US guaranteed that if Egypt would ever again close the Straits of Tiran to Israel bound shipping, the US would open them. In May 1967 when Nasser expelled the UN from Sinai and closed the Straits, Abba Eban, Israel's foreign minister, rushed to Washington to ask them to fulfill their guarantee. In the State Department they searched high and low and ransacked all the cupboards, but they couldn't find the guarantee! After the Americans made some half-hearted efforts to put together an international flotilla to open the straits, Israel rescued the US from its embarrassment by winning the Six Day War and opening the straits by itself. Let's fast forward to the summer of 1970 at the height of the War of Attrition. To get Israel to agree to cease fire, the US promised that Egypt would not move its Soviet SAM 3 missiles from Cairo to the Suez Canal. They assured the Israeli government that American satellites could detect any such movement in real time, so there was no danger. As soon as the cease fire went into effect, Egypt began to move its missiles to the Canal and the American satellites went blind. For three days the Israelis desperately tried to convince the Americans of what was happening, but the US couldn't see it. Finally after three days, and after the Egyptians had emplaced SAM 3 missiles all along the Suez Canal, the US satellites regained their sight. Then the Americans said to Israel, "Do you really want to resume the war over this?" The SAM 3 missiles took a terrible toll of Israeli air force planes in the early days of the Yom Kippur war. Today we should ask, "Do we really want to rely on US guarantees after that record?" Yitzhak Heimowitz practises law in Tel Aviv. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
