Israel Warns China Its Oil Imports From Iran May Be In Danger

Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, met today with China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Peres told Jiechi that China should play a significant role in trying to convince Iran to halt its ambitions to achieve nuclear weapons.

During the visit, Jiechi encouraged Israel to begin negotiating with the Palestinians and that China supported the peace plan of giving up more land to the Palestinians. In addition to negotiating with the Palestinians, Jiechi encouraged Israel to open up talks with Syria and Lebanon.

It appears that Shimon Peres is trying to convince China that there may be more at stake in this nuclear arms debate concerning Iran than China might be willing to admit. According to today’s Jerusalem Post, Israel is prepared to tell China that if Iran doesn’t back off from developing nuclear weapons and a military conflict erupts between Israel and Iran, China’s growing demand of oil, much of what it buys from Iran, may be in jeopardy.

The Jerusalem Post has learned that Israeli officials were planning to tell him that China’s oil and natural gas imports from Iran could be jeopardized in the future if pressure does not increase on the Islamic republic to cease its nuclear program and a military confrontation ensues.

During his stay, Israeli diplomats will argue that a more proactive stance on China’s part to pressure Iran will serve Beijing’s interests, by helping to avert a military conflict, thus safeguarding an important energy source for the growing and energy-hungry Chinese economy.

Jiechi will be urged by officials in Jerusalem to up the ante in the campaign to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear development work.

As China grows and develops it has made no bones about the fact they need oil and will do most anything to continue their supply lines to get it. We have often speculated what role China would play in the unrest in the Middle East. A few years ago it might have been a stretch to believe that China would have such an enormous demand for oil and natural gas. Welcome to the high stakes of using oil for leverage.

It is safe to say that China is now well vested in Middle East affairs.

Tom Remington

Obama Making Enemies With Israel

It appears that President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge for hope and change now involves making friends with past enemies and enemies of past friends. Coming from a man who regularly told the American people that our foreign policy needed to change because we were angering the world with the way we did business, has shown us his willingness to bow down to Arab leaders and turn a cold shoulder to our longtime friends in Israel causing anger among our friends.

Obama is tossing his weight around and putting demands on Israel never before seen. While Israel remains deeply troubled by Iran’s bent on nuclear weapons, Obama has decided to use this as leverage against the Israelis, telling them that if they want help with Iran, they need to start giving up land and handing it over to the Palestinians.

Coming up is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, a time when, under past administrations, the head of Israel would be invited to pay a visit to the White House and meet with the president. Not Obama. He chose to inform Israel he would not be “in town” and that the past open door policy would no longer be in effect for Israeli prime ministers.

In return, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled his trip to Washington and made an announcement that an upcoming purchase of 75 US-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets would be put on hold while Israel takes a closer look at the deal pending.

According to “TheAge.com”, the Israelis are talking about their relationship with President Obama and the end of warm relations.

According to prominent Israeli political commentator Maya Bengal, who writes for the country’s second-largest selling newspaper Maariv, the holiday is over.

“As Passover comes to an end, so comes to an end, it seems, the days of grace granted to the Netanyahu Government by the American Administration,” says the commentator.

Tel Aviv barman Meir Avraham, 30, says he can feel on the street the tensions being played out between the US and Israel.

“This is one of the the main things that the people are talking about at the moment,” says Mr Avraham, who recently returned to Israel after several months in Townsville.

Where does this leave Israel? Netanyahu has made it clear that they cannot tolerate Iran obtaining nuclear weapons – Iran being a country that promised to use them on the “Little Satan” and the “Great Satan”. If the new policies of the U.S are toward strengthening relations with the Arab countries at the expense of Israel, then Israel will be left all alone.

Tom Remington

Israel Ready to Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities

We all knew it was just a matter of ‘when’, and not ‘if’. Just this week the Israeli military announced it is now prepared to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. This comes as Israel’s new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, forms his government. Just last week Israel’s President, Peres, hinted at a possible strike as well. Although we have always heard rhetoric from Israel, the time seems ripe due to many new develops. Of course, the United States has a new president who seems to be more supportive toward Muslims, and is now willing to sit down and negotiate without preconditions with Iran. But most of all Obama seems to be working against Netanyahu.

What’s more important is Iran’s capabilities now. Iran is boasting 7,000 enrichment centrifuges. If you aren’t familiar with the process of enriching uranium then I can assure you they are in the final stages…

Referring to the inauguration of a nuclear fuel production plant by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier on Thursday, he said in a televised speech: “Today we praise … the accomplishment of the last stage of the nuclear fuel cycle.”

Ahmadinejad admits they are in the last stages.

For those who are looking at this situation prophetically, we have to ask ourselves a couple of questions. First, would Israel’s attack on Iran prolong the coming of the last days or would it escalate them? Why? Could this agitate Russia and possibly China to begin aligning to retaliate against Israel leading to the Gog/Magog war prophesied in Ezekiel?

Obama Seems Willing To Cave In To Iran

Once the United States had a firm stance on dealing with rogue and terrorist supporting countries. That stance was that countries, like Iran, had to meet tough preconditions before any thought of negotiations of any kind could take place. With the Obama administration, things have certainly changed.

Not long after Obama took office, he crafted a video plea to the Iranian leadership to be a good boy and come play with the rest of the world fair. The message in return was clear – mind your own business. But this hasn’t seemingly deterred President Obama. He now seems willing to cave in to his own preconditions, displaying his weakness at the expense of national and international security by allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium all in hopes that he can sit down with Iran and resolve differences.

According to the New York Times, Obama has convinced other European leaders that the rest of the world needs to look at things differently and appease Iran.

A review of Iran policy that Mr. Obama ordered after taking office is still under way, and aides say it is not clear how long he would be willing to allow Iran to continue its fuel production, and at what pace. But European officials said there was general agreement that Iran would not accept the kind of immediate shutdown of its facilities that the Bush administration had demanded.

“We have all agreed that is simply not going to work — experience tells us the Iranians are not going to buy it,” said a senior European official involved in the strategy sessions with the Obama administration. “So we are going to start with some interim steps, to build a little trust.”

Earlier this week, Israeli President Shimon Peres told the world that Iran is only interested in complete control over the Middle East and not just the state of Israel.

Where will this leave Israel and the United States as Obama continues to show real weakness in dealing with known terrorists such as Iran? Obama has already waffled in his support for Israel leaving them wondering if push came to shove, who he would support.

Israel President Peres Says Iran Out To Control Middle East

Coming as not much of a surprise to most honest people of the planet, Israel President Shimon Peres today said that “Iran has aspirations to control the Middle East”. This response came from Peres in reference to the fact that Egypt and Iran seem plotted against each other because of Egypt finding out that Hizbullah, a known arm of Iran, was plotting targets to destroy in Egypt, including tourist sites.

From the Jerusalem Post:

Speaking after meeting with the country’s top rabbis in honor of the Pessah holiday, Peres told Army Radio, “They fight even without us being involved, and that’s good.”

What Perez was indicating was that Iran is not just focused on the destruction of Israel but will fight anyone who stands in their way to control all the Middle East.

Tom Remington

Israel’s Peres Hints at Possible Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Program

How long has Israel been condemning Iran’s program to engineer their own nuclear weapons? How long before condemnation turns into action? Well, according to the current President of the state of Israel, it all depends on whether the United States can soften “the Iranian president’s approach”. Peres went on to say that if Obama’s talks with Iran fail to halt their nuclear program, then Israel will strike. These are some very bold words spoken this Easter Sunday.

Although Peres is adamant about military action, he concluded that Israel couldn’t carry out any strike against the Islamic Republic without America’s assistance.

“We certainly cannot go it alone, without the US, and we definitely can’t go against the US. This would be unnecessary,” stressed the president.

One thing is certain, and that is Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran. The question is at one point do they intervene? And can they go it alone without the U.S. if the Obama Administration refuses to support such an attack?

Obama White House Working Against Benjamin Netanyahu?

In not much of a shocking surprise, it appears as though the Obama Administration is already working hard behind the scenes to undermine the newest Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (Previous Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999). For those who are familiar with how Netanyahu rolls, he does not support a Palestinian state. But, apparently in great anticipation of Netanyahu’s visit to the States next month, the Obama team has been briefing Congress on its strong position to establish a Palestinian state by dividing up Israel.

Not only are they prepping Congress but Obama actually anticipates a clash with Netanyahu due to many issues where they don’t see eye to eye, especially freezing Jewish construction in the West Bank and in Eastern Jerusalem.

Past U.S. presidents have been supportive of Israel for the most part. The Obama Administration is starting to morph into what some have feared all along. Our unconditional support for Israel seems to be diminishing at a rapid rate since our current Administration is bent on how we are perceived by our enemies abroad and by mad men and not by our allies.

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