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Oh look, smiling, happy

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:06:56 +0000

In reply to Leak Prompts Netanyahu to Cancel Security Cabinet Meeting on Iran Issue

Oh look, smiling, happy people:

Top US officer visits Israel amid rift over whether to attack Iran
By NBC News wire services, September 7, 2012

Oak Besson / Israeli Defense Ministry via EPA

A photograph supplied by the Israeli Defense Ministry shows Admiral James Winnefeld, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (left), and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on Thursday.

JERUSALEM - A top U.S. officer visited Israel's defense minister on Thursday and discussed Iran, in a display of solidarity after the two allies differed publicly over what they fear is Tehran's drive toward nuclear weapons capability.

The vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral James Winnefeld smiled broadly, exchanging pleasantries with Ehud Barak in his office in Tel Aviv in a brief video released by the Israeli Defense Ministry.

Barak later said that they had "discussed regional issues and Iran, of course."

The visit comes after General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dismayed Israeli officials by saying that Washington did not want to be "complicit" in an Israeli attack on Iran [....]

Cavaet, could be part of a

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:59:01 +0000

In reply to Leak Prompts Netanyahu to Cancel Security Cabinet Meeting on Iran Issue

Cavaet, could be part of a GOP disinfo campaign:

U.S. and Israel at odds over policy on Iran

Reuters September 6, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the U.S. ambassador last month because he was "at wit's end" over what he sees as the Obama administration's lack of clarity on Iran's nuclear program, a U.S. congressman who was at the meeting said.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, made his first public comments about the late August meeting in Israel in an interview with Michigan's WJR radio on Tuesday.

His disclosure comes only hours before President Barack Obama will at the Democratic National Convention to accept the party's nomination as its candidate in the November election, in which the level of the Obama administration's support for Israel has become a contentious topic.

"Right now the Israelis don't believe that this administration is serious when they say all options are on the table, and more importantly neither do the Iranians. That's why the program is progressing," Rogers said.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/Israel+odds+over+policy+Iran/7207563/story.html#ixzz25oduAFFD