U.S. congressman: Give talks with Iran no more than 3 months

U.S. congressman: Give talks with Iran no more than 3 months

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048341.html
Last update - 03:33 21/12/2008

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent


The Obama administration should devote no more than about three months
to dialogue with Iran, the chairman of the United States' House of
Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman, has told
Haaretz.

Berman says that if negotiations fail, the United States will have to
"buy in for a crippling level of sanctions."

A California Democrat, Berman came to Israel last week to meet with
government leaders and take part in discussions at Tel Aviv's National
Institute for Security Studies, which focused on U.S.-Israel relations
after the political transitions in both countries.

Berman says President-elect Barack Obama's policy of dialogue with
Iran should be conducted quickly to prevent the Islamic Republic from
attaining a nuclear capability.

"If the goal is to keep them from being a nuclear-weapons-capable
state you cannot let dialogue become a trap that goes on and on and
allows them to enrich and expand their centrifuges and who knows what
they are doing with weaponization that is easier to conceal," Berman
said. "You cannot talk about a longer dialogue than eight to 12
weeks."

Berman said "pulling together key parties" to support sanctions
involving bilateral trade and refined oil products would work on
Tehran because "it is sensitive to public opinion." He added: "It is a
lot different than what we are doing now¬ certain people can't fly,
and minor sanctions on certain kinds of nuclear-related
technologies."

Berman says the Bush administration's major mistake was that it did
not unite the international community against Iran, and that dialogue
with Iran will be another chance to do so.

Russia he said, was key in this respect. He criticized the Bush
administration for "not prioritizing Iran" among the issues the United
States has with Russia. "The Russians fully well know how important
that is for us, and at the same time watch us pushing policies that
they deeply resent ¬ in the content of the deployment of the (missile
defense) system without the collaboration with them that they felt
entitled to get. I think when you look at all issues together, the
potential of nuclear cooperation with Russia is big."

Berman suggested that modifying the missile defense system's terms of
deployment could increase cooperation with Russia. "I don't know, but
I think there is a chance to get a level of cooperation. It's hard for
me to believe they want to see Iran get nuclear weapons," Berman
said.

He added that one proposal on the table was to allow the Russians to
place monitors at missile bases to show them that the system was not
directed against them, but against Iran.

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Berman on Israel:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6-BGY7X1ro

Howard Berman represents the Israeli Defense Forces in the Congress:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...gs_come_round/
Here is a tiny URL for the above one: http://tinyurl.com/9evd5o


Yes, There Is a Guerrilla War Against Zionism in the U.S. What Should
Jewish Institutions Do?

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweis...it-of-a-h.html

Call for former CIA field officer (and Ron Paul's foreign policy
advisor) Philip Giraldi which is linked over at
NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM and mentioned George Tenet and AIPAC operative
Dennis Ross as well:


http://tinyurl.com/5vvxb9 Listen to the 'Liberty Hour' interview with
Philip Giraldi via the 'Hour 1' link at the following URL:

http://tinyurl.com/5gdquy


Israel's 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card


http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=13906


Philip Giraldi

U.S. Middle East policy motivated by pro-Israel lobby

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=49800


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Subject: Pakistanis rally against US, Israel/Washington Arrogance Has
Fomented a Muslim Revolution

Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 3:44 PM

Pakistanis rally against US, Israel:

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?i...onid=351020401

You might be interested in accessing the 'What Motivated the 9/11
Hijackers?' youtube video linked on the lower right side of
http://www.NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM to see the exchange with Lee
Hamilton of the 9/11 Commission.

The following youtube is a must watch as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7EB1...aynext_from=PL

Here is a tiny URL for it:

http://tinyurl.com/5fxwsv You might be interested in accessing the
video linked via the following URL as well:

http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot....-what-911.html

One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe:


http://www.informationclearinghouse....ticle21504.htm

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Washington Arrogance Has Fomented a Muslim Revolution
by Paul Craig Roberts

December 5, 2008 Paul Craig Roberts

"In a government of law, the existence of the government will be
imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government
is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it
teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the
government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it
invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

~
Justice Louis Brandeis Is Pakistan responsible for the Mumbai attack
in India? No. Is India’s repression of its Muslim minority
responsible? No. Is the United States government responsible? Yes. The
attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims. Radicalized Muslims
resulted from the US overthrowing the elected government in Iran and
imposed the Shah; from the US stationing troops in Saudi Arabia; from
the US invading and attempting to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing
weddings, funerals and children’s soccer games; from the US violating
international and US law by torturing its Muslim victims; from the US
enlisting Pakistan in its war against the Taliban; from the US
violating Pakistan’s sovereignty by conducting military operations on
Pakistani territory, killing Pakistani civilians; from the US
government supporting a half century of Israeli ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians from their lands, towns and villages; from the assault of
American culture on Muslim values; from the US purchasing the
government of Egypt to act as its puppet; from US arrogance that
America is the supreme arbiter of morality. As Justice Brandeis said,
crime is contagious. Government teaches by example, and America’s
example is lawlessness. America’s brutal crimes against the Muslim
world have invited every Muslim to become a law unto himself – a
revolutionary. It is not terror that Washington confronts but
revolution. By illegal, uncivilized and undiplomatic behaviour, the US
has stirred Muslim peoples from their long slumber as serfs of Western
colonial powers. Some Muslims have had all that they can take and
their fury drives them to rouse a billion of their fellows to throw
off the yoke of foreign hegemony. The arrogant incompetence of
American governments brought this conflict to the American people and
inflicted it upon the world. By destabilizing Pakistan, the US lost a
puppet and created an opportunity for Muslim revolutionaries to
exploit. By enraging India against Pakistan, the Mumbai attack has
created new problems for Pakistan that will focus that government’s
attention away from combating Taliban sanctuaries on Pakistan’s border
with Afghanistan. If the US picks up the slack, it will have invaded
yet another country and become trapped in a larger quagmire. Having
fomented terrorism, the American government now pretends to be the
innocent victim, just as Israelis, having brought about terrorism by
driving Palestinians from their homes and villages, pretend to be
innocent victims. Today European members of NATO, an outdated
organization formed to defend Western Europe against Soviet invasion,
are sacrificing the lives of their soldiers fighting the American
Empire’s war in Afghanistan. If America continues to have its way,
Europeans will soon be dying in Ukraine, Georgia and Iran. The
American government, which preaches "freedom and democracy" has in the
21st century gone to great extremes to stamp out the US Constitution
and the civil liberties that it guarantees. The US government has
repudiated the Geneva Conventions and the prohibitions in US statutory
law against torture. The US government has set aside habeas corpus,
the ancient legal principle guaranteed by the US Constitution that
prohibits governments from holding people in prisons without
presenting charges. The US government has broken the laws of other
nations by kidnapping foreign citizens and transporting them to other
lands to be tortured. These massive crimes have been justified in the
name of the "war on terror." In truth, America’s crimes foment
revolution. It was the US government that created the "war on terror,"
which has been used to murder and dispossess millions of Iraqis and
Afghans, to imprison US citizens as if they were medieval serfs and to
squander three trillion dollars for the sole purpose of enriching
Halliburton and the military-security complex. Investigative
journalist John Pilger has shown that the so-called "moral superiority
of the West" is a hoax designed to shield from view the self-seeking
West’s crimes against humanity. Obama promised change from this
destructive behaviour, but how does change arise when the most
arrogant woman on earth is appointed Secretary of State and the rest
of the new government is staffed with tried-and-true Likudniks and
servants of the military-security complex? The change over which Obama
will preside will have no American victories. The change will come
from America as a failed state, from the dollar dethroned as reserve
currency, from America repudiated by its allies and paid puppets, from
massive unemployment for which there is no solution, from
hyperinflation that produces anarchy. The day might arrive when
Washington is faced with revolution at home as well as abroad.
December 5, 2008

Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail] a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal,
has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two
decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-
authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans
lost the protection of law, has just been released by Random House.