Israel:
On Ground Updates
PM Netanyahu tells US Defense Secretary
Panetta ‘Sanctions, Diplomacy have yet had any impact on Tehran's Nuclear
Weapons Program’
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
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* YNetNews.com brings us the following report this Wednesday
afternoon that goes in part like this. …Earlier Wednesday, at an Israeli
defense site south of Tel Aviv, Panetta stood beside Defense
Minister Ehud Barak to declare that the Obama administration is
serious about the possibility of eventually resorting to military force against
Iran. But he said all non-military measures must be exhausted first… Barak sounded as unconvinced as the prime
minister, saying he appreciated US support but added that the probability of
international sanctions ever compelling Iran to give up its nuclear program is “extremely
low.”… Netanyahu's and Barack’s statements, taken together, dramatized the
growing strains in US-Israeli relations over what strategy to pursue with Iran…
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full report at link below…
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* AP
has this take on the news out of Israel today…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
standing next to the U.S. defense chief, said Wednesday without qualification
that international economic sanctions have had no effect on Iran's nuclear
program and suggested Israeli patience was wearing thin,
a statement that amounted to an indictment of President Barack Obama's
policy toward the Islamic republic… Netanyahu dismissed U.S.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's assurances that the United States shared
its goal of a non-nuclear Iran, saying the central features of Washington's
strategy for stopping the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions -- sanctions and
diplomacy -- were perilously close to failure… Netanyahu
did not explicitly threaten to attack Iran, but that was the unspoken
implication of his assertion that all non-military measures have proven
ineffective in persuading Iran to change its course…
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rest at link below…
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