Monday, February 16, 2015

This IS Getting Ugly

++Bibi blasted back at accusations he leaked American positions at the Iran nuclear talks and says that if the deal is so good why can't Israel see it. This will actually play well here. Of course, letting a country that is not a negotiating partner at the table Monday Quarterback your moves ,particularly when they are accused of disinformation, have a say is too rich. This particularly is galling considering the heavy work Israel called on the United States to do to block Palestinian initiatives in the United Nations and Europe.

++Usually the Obama Administration doesn't take the bait but it's clear Bibi has really gotten under their skin. The United States is discussing whether to leak the framework agreement John Kerry had negotiated between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas or whether to take those elements to the United Nations to have them incorporated into the UN's resolutions on a Middle East solution. It's clear the Administration feels they have burned too many times.

++Bibi said he had an obligation to speak before Congress to warn them of this "disastrous" deal, which the Administration believes he had supported last year. I think we heard at his last Congressional speech about the disastrous Iranian deal, which never happened.

++Something is brewing because the Middle East Quartet is saddling up again and now want progress on the Israel-Palestinian issue. This comes after the United Nations tightened the screws on financing for ISIS and put the hammer down on their financial support throughout the region.

++Tony Blair just returned from his inspection of Gaza. Tell me again why this man is even allowed in the Middle East? 

++Meanwhile Michael Steele, former NRC chairman, appeared on NBC and said we may be fighting ISIS for thirty years. When Chris Hayes jumped into to say "Whoa". Steele pulled the old W, "We have to fight them there unless we fight them here." 

++The war drums are beating as Chris Matthews is crying for blood. 

++I'm getting emails blasting the White House's denunciation of the ISIS killings in Libya not mentioning that the victims were "Christians",note they never said it would be good to say "Coptic Christians".  Now we run up the heat on this issue.

++I remind readers that our Congress has not passed an Authorization of Military Force yet even though President obama did submit a text. Also John Boehner said it was light to shut down the Department of Homeland Security in protest of President Obama;s immigration policy. Not the actions of the fearless warriors.

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