Man Won’t FACE REALITY,
Obama’s Passive Peace Plan:
Give enemy all he claims as His,
British WW-2 Blunder Rides Again,
Shades of Neville Chamberlain in 1938!
U.S. Repents of Its Many Sins against Islam,
To join the cowardly Lion of the European Union,
Along with our two cold war enemies China and Russia,
Engaging in a maize of diplomatic dialog prior to Armageddon,
The diplomatic dialog circus of 1932 to 1939 is about to be Repeated,
As the U.S., Great Britain, France and Germany Talk – Iran
GROWS Stronger,
And the Strength and Will of the West against Islam grows Weaker and Weaker!
April 10, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The vast majority of the populations of the West have a quite natural fear of going to war and, having lived through three of them, I am among them.
It is the nature of moral men and women not to desire to become involved in a war that may take their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren. Out of this desire grows an unfounded belief that somehow war can be postponed by dialog with those pushing the international community toward what moral citizens cling to as a possibility, namely that war might be delayed indefinitely.
Knowing what I know about Islam, Russia, and China, I cannot see the remotest possibility of a Middle East war being delayed indefinitely. In fact, I will be amazed if it is delayed past 2015.
Any truce or agreement reached in the Middle East can never be anything other than temporary until Christ returns.
Begin Excerpt from Haaretz
‘Jerusalem should be capital for the Palestinians and Israel’
By DPA
April 9, 2009
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday expressed his country’s opposition to the demolition of Palestinian houses in Jerusalem, saying the city should be the capital of both Israel and the future Palestinian state.
“We view with real concern the proposed demolitions in East Jerusalem,” Miliband told a press conference he jointly addressed with his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh.
“Jerusalem should be the capital of the Palestinians and Israel,” he said.
Miliband was responding to plans by Israel to demolish scores of houses in a Jerusalem suburb that would make about 1,500 Palestinians homeless.
The Israeli authorities alleged that the building of the houses was illegal in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day war and annexed, saying the city would remain the “eternal, undivided capital” of the Jewish state.
The United Nations considers East Jerusalem occupied territory and both Jordan and the Palestinians insist that there would be no peace in the region before Israel quits East Jerusalem, allowing it to become the capital of an independent Palestinian state.
The issue
of East Jerusalem, particularly the planned building of more settlements there by the new right-wing Israeli government, is expected to top Miliband’s talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Prime Minister Nader Dahabi later in the day, officials said.
In addition, talks will also cover ways of reinvigorating peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, they said.
The British foreign secretary arrived in Amman earlier Thursday for his first visit to Jordan.
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Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post
US to participate directly in group talks with Iran
April 8, 2009
Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST
The Obama administration said Wednesday it will participate directly in group talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program, marking another significant shift from former President George W. Bush’s policy toward a nation he labeled a member of the “Axis of Evil.”
The State Department said the United States would be at the table “from now on” when senior diplomats from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany meet with Iranian
officials to discuss the nuclear issue.
The Bush administration had generally shunned such meetings, although it attended one last year.
“We believe that pursuing very careful engagement on a range of issues that affect our interests and the interests of the world with Iran makes sense,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters. “There is nothing more important than trying to convince Iran to cease its efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the decision was conveyed to representatives of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia by the third-ranking U.S. diplomat William Burns at a Wednesday meeting in London. That group, known as the “P5+1,” announced earlier that it would invite Iran to attend a new session aimed at breaking a deadlock in the talks.
“The U.S. remains committed to the P5+1 process; what is different is that the US will join P5+1 discussions with Iran from now on,” Wood said, adding that Washington was hopeful Iran would attend.
“If Iran accepts, we hope this will be the occasion to seriously engage Iran on how to break the logjam of recent years and work in a cooperative manner to resolve the outstanding international concerns about its nuclear program,” he said. “Any breakthrough will be the result of the collective efforts of all the parties, including Iran.”
Wood said the administration wants a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear issue and believes that requires “a willingness to engage directly with each other on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interests.”
“We hope that the government of Iran chooses to reciprocate,” he added.
The invitation is to be sent to the Iranians by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana. In a statement the group said it welcomed the “new direction” of U.S. policy toward Iran. No time frame was given for a date of the meeting.
Prior to word from State, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s hard-line president, said that his country welcomes talks with the United States should it prove to be “honest” in extending its hand toward Iran, one of the strongest signals yet that Teheran welcomes Obama’s calls for dialogue.
“The Iranian nation welcomes a hand extended to it should it really and truly be based on honesty, justice and respect,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
The United States and some of its allies accuse Iran of seeking to build a nuclear weapon, a claim that Iran denies. Tehran insists it has the right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to develop reactor fuel using enrichment for civilian energy purposes.
Through the negotiations, the P5+1 group has offered Iran a package of incentives to stop enriching and reprocessing uranium.
Teheran has thus far rebuffed the offer despite the fact that its refusal has led to the imposition of three rounds of economic, trade and financial sanctions by the UN Security Council.
Individual countries, led by the United States and members of the European Union, have also imposed their own sanctions on Iran.
The United States and Iran have not had diplomatic relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and subsequent hostage taking at the US Embassy in Teheran and official exchanges between the two nations have largely been limited to talks over security in Iraq and the situation in Afghanistan.
The Bush administration had pursued a policy of isolating Iran and not attending the P5+1 group’s meetings with Iranian officials on the nuclear issue. In a brief break with that, however, the administration sent Burns, a career diplomat to one such meeting in Geneva last July.
After that, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iran had not been serious at the meeting and such contact ceased.
As a presidential candidate Obama signaled a willingness to open direct talks with Iran and Wednesday’s step is the latest in a series of moves that the administration has taken to reach out to Iran.
These initiatives have included inviting Tehran to an international meeting on Afghanistan late last month, at which US officials in another break from Bush-era policy delivered a written message to Iranian diplomats politely asking for information about detained and missing Americans in the country.
Also last month, President Barack Obama recorded a video addressed to the Iranian people, in which he said the US is prepared to end years of strained relations if Tehran tones down its bellicose rhetoric.
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