Friday, April 11, 2014

A Secret White House Campaign To Scapegoat Israel On The Failed Peace Process?

President Barack Obama talks with Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice in the Oval Office, March 19, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Inside The White House’s Secret Campaign to Scapegoat Israel -- Adam Kredo, Washington Fee Beacon

Top diplomats planted anti-Israel reports in lead up to peace talk collapse

The Obama administration has been waging a secret media war in capitals across two continents blaming Israel for the recent collapse of peace talks with the Palestinians, according to former Israeli diplomats and Washington, D.C. insiders familiar with the peace process.

Multiple sources told the Washington Free Beacon that top Obama administration officials have worked for the past several days to manufacture a crisis over the reissuing of housing permits in a Jerusalem neighborhood widely acknowledged as Israeli territory.

Senior State Department officials based in Israel have sought to lay the groundwork for Israel to take the blame for talks collapsing by peddling a narrative to the Israeli press claiming that the Palestinians were outraged over Israeli settlements, the Free Beacon has learned.

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My Comment: The bottom line from all of this acrimony is simple .... the Israeli - Palestinian peace talks are now dead .... and U.S. - Israeli relations are in the toilet.

1 comment:

James said...

Dead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPatfgoNBRo