Thursday, January 2, 2014

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer



Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) 

Israel to delay settlement announcement
Jan. 2, 2014 at 12:30 AM
JERUSALEM, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Israel won't announce new settlement construction bids while the U.S. secretary of state is in the region, officials said as John Kerry was to land Thursday.

"Nobody has an intention of sticking a finger in Kerry's eye," a senior official told Israel's Haaretz newspaper.

The Obama administration considers settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- territories Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War -- illegitimate and an obstacle to peace.

During the war, Israel took effective control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt -- known then as the United Arab Republic -- the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria.

Most of the world considers Israeli housing settlements in any of those captured territories illegal under international law.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says the expanded settlement plans undermine any chance of peace, and Palestinian leaders say they plan to fight them in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, if the peace talks fail.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the settlement plans in a New Year's Eve address, calling them a "cancer" and vowing to use the Authority's "right as a U.N. observer state by taking political, diplomatic and legal action to stop it."

He also reiterated his threat to seek U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state if Israel expands settlement construction.

Kerry was to meet with Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other officials from Thursday through at least Sunday, and probably longer, to advance a U.S.-led effort to draft a preliminary framework for peace.

Kerry first proposed the framework last month as the end goal of nine months of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that started in July.

Kerry originally said the nine-month goal, in April, was to forge a final agreement in the long-running conflict.

The Obama administration says it hopes to present the preliminary framework to both sides by the end of the month.

This is Kerry's 10th Middle East visit as secretary of state to advance the difficult Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Netanyahu said last week he planned to publish the new housing-construction proposals, or tenders, shortly after Monday night's Israeli release of 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners -- the third of four promised releases.

Israel agreed to release 104 Palestinian prisoners in four phases as part of a U.S.-brokered deal to resume the peace talks.

Netanyahu is torn between a desire to succeed in the peace talks and not being seen as a "sucker" for releasing the prisoners and potentially getting nothing in return if the peace talks fail, Israel's Army Radio reported, citing officials who recently met with Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has made a point of tying settlement announcements to the prisoners' release.

John Kerry
John F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.

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Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Haim Saban is a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a friend of Shimon Peres, and a board member for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Shimon Peres is a friend of Haim Saban, and the president for Israel.
Marvin Josephson was the chairman for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and is an overseer for the International Rescue Committee.
Princess Firyal is an overseer for the International Rescue Committee, and the princess for Jordan.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the International Rescue Committee, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and Refugees International.
George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Henry A. Kissinger is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Queen Noor is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a director at Refugees International, and the queen dowager for Jordan.
 Henrietta Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Belizean Grove.
Belizean_Grove is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
George H.W. Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club.
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Dark Secrets inside Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Club
Weaving Spiders Come Not Here
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Walter L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian Club, and the anchorman for the CBS News.
William M. Daley is a contributor for the CBS News, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
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Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Teresa Heinz Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
John F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.









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