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In an interview with the Associated Press, Brazil President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned that further sanctions on Iran could lead to war in the Middle East and explicitly linked American threats of further sanctions to the United States’ invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Lula’s statement comes one week after he rebuffed Secretary Clinton’s request for support for additional sanctions in the United Nations Security Council.
Brazil is not alone in its view. As the Leveretts discussed in a post last week, there is considerable opposition to sanctions among Council members.
It is interesting to note that the “rising powers” within the Council – China, Turkey, and Brazil – are all skeptical of additional sanctions and are likely to either water-down or oppose them.
– Ben Katcher
Hi – why you all wasting your time and energy righting about why iran should be or should not be sanctioned?! US, Israel, UK, Italy, Germany, France, China and Russia are all benefiting from Iran’s current government! US is selling arms to Persian Gulf countires because of iran, Israel is enjoying this because it’s number one enemy Arabs have Iran to deal with, Russia and China are selling arms and everday needs to iran, the same as Italy, Germany, France and in some extend UK! So why this government should be toppled and why should it be bombed?
The root of evil is also the media and hollywood………
thanks to murdoch and berlesconi’s……..
gattuso
Any American president has only two windows of opportunity to break or try to break the Zionist lobby’s stranglehold on Congress on matters to do with Israel/Palestine.
The first window is during the first nine months of his first term because after that the soliciting of funds for the mid-term elections begins. (Presidents don’t have to worry on their own account about funds for the mid-term elections, but with their approach no president can do or say anything that would cost his party seats in Congress. In Obama’s case that is going to be an extremely critical consideration because of the Democrats’ loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat, on 19 January 2010, to a Republican who had demonstrated his ability to read from Zionism’s script during the campaigning).
The second window of opportunity is the last year of his second term if he has one. In that year, because he can’t run for a third term, no president has a personal need for election campaign funds or organised votes.
And that calls to mind the words of an eminent Arab-American, actually a Palestinian-American, who knew Obama very well and, before the race for the White House entered its final, decisive stage, had private conversations with him. A few months before Obama’s victory, this gentleman said to a very dear friend of mine, “Don’t expect any real pressure on Israel from Obama until he is well into his second term.”
I am inclined to the view that after the mid-term elections of a second term, Obama could indeed be the president to do whatever is necessary to bring Zionism to heel in order to best protect America’s own real interests. But the prospects of him winning as second term don’t look very good at the moment.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24957.htm
“There’s no point in denying it,” Avnery wrote. “
In the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten… In the words of the ancient proverb,
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Netanyahu has tripped Obama on his first step.
The President of the United States has stumbled.” And Netanyahu had won in a big way.
“Not only did he survive, not only has he shown that he is no ‘sucker’ (a word he uses all the time), he has proven to his people – and to the public at large – that there is nothing to fear:
Obama is nothing but a paper tiger.
The settlements can go on expanding without hindrance.
Any negotiations that start, if they start at all, can go on until the coming of the Messiah. Nothing will come out of them.”
AIPAC calls for swift action to block U.S. companies supporting Iran
March 10, 2010
NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is calling on the U.S. Congress to take several immediate steps in response to a New York Times report revealing that the federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in grants, contracts and other benefits to foreign and multinational U.S. companies conducting business in Iran.
In a rare move, the pro-Israel lobby has sent a sharply worded letter to every member of Congress calling for an investigation into why three successive administrations have failed under existing law to determine what companies have invested in the Iranian energy sector.
http://snipurl.com/urdlx
Brazil is showing more common sense in dealing with Iran, than does the US with its foolish efforts to isolate Iran, and apparently to aid and abet terrorist attacks against Iran.
stevieb
“The real problem is the Israel lobby and ZOG. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s a threat to the entire plane.”
You are absolutely right.
Israel lobby is the root of all evil.
They are the reason why USA cannot have rapprochement with Iran.
They are the reason why USA has lost nearly 5ooo soldiers in Iraq.
They are the reason why Israel can occupy Palestine by force.
They are the reason why Israel can murder Palestinians with impunity.
They are the reason why Israel can get away with murder.
They are the reason why Israel can violate international law.
They are the reason why Israel can violate UN resolutions without accountability.
They are the reason why there is so much hatred against the USA.
They are the reason why there will be no peace in Middle East.
They are the reason why there will be a war against Iran.
It is about time that we have a proper debate about the role of “Israel lobby” towards Iran in this forum.
I would like to ask Ben Katcher to help us in this regard.