Up Yours Al-Maliki, Israel doesn't want to associate with your POS country.
I, for one, was Always against the War in Iraq, I always said that problem could have been solved by 2 Thermonuclear Hydrogen Bombs.
Posted on 07/01/2012 12:18:22 PM PDT by bayouranger
This is what our troops fought and died for. This is what we expended billions for: a Jew-hating, rapidly Islamizing client state of Iran. "Baghdad welcomes all relations but rejects ties with Israel: Iraqi PM," from Al Arabiya, July 1 (thanks to Kenneth):
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday that Baghdad does not discriminate against countries but said he rejected forming any ties with Israel.
Maliki was giving a speech on Political Prisoner Day in Baghdad, when he said that other countries should respect his government and political process.
“Our non-partisan approach with other countries in the world should be reciprocal,” he said....
Maliki was giving a speech on Political Prisoner Day in Baghdad, when he said that other countries should respect his government and political process.
“Our non-partisan approach with other countries in the world should be reciprocal,” he said.
Maliki’s statement comes in the wake of it gaining some leverage in the region when it opened ground for the Arab Summit in March 2012.
Iraq, a founding member of the Arab League, has not hosted a summit since November 1978 ─ save an extraordinary summit which was held in Baghdad in May 1990 ─ just months before Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
Soon after the March summit, Iraq emerged as an international mediator when Baghdad welcomed Iranian and world officials for talks on Iran’s nuclear program development in May.
Maliki, meanwhile, is increasingly touting his government’s successes in garnishing Iraq’s relations with other countries, saying that this should be considered one of the achievements of the post Baath regime.
In a speech marking the 143th anniversary of the first Iraqi newspaper, Maliki said that the media has focused mainly on the negatives and ignored the positives happening in the country. He said, Iraq’s new friendly foreign policy should be hailed and recognized.
Iraqis under the reign of the Hussein’s dictatorial regime witnessed consecutive wars and did not enjoy any diplomatic successes. While relations with various nations witnessed ups and downs, Iraq never had ties with Israel. Oil connecting Iraq to Israel?
Despite Maliki’s statement and that Iraq-Israel relations are still non-existent, accusations by the country’s officials that some political blocs are smuggling oil to Israel can be indicative of subtle interactions happening with the Jewish state.
In April, Kurdish MP Farhad al-Atroushi accused Iraq’s Ministry of Energy of smuggling oil to Israel through Jordan.
The claim was vehemently denied by Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahrastani, a senior member of the State of Law alliance, a bloc formed by Maliki. Jordan’s Information and Communication Minister Rakan al-Majali also rejected the claim.
However, accusation that Kurdistan was smuggling oil to Israel, started from Iran.
The semi Iranian official FARS agency in April, revealed the presence of documents that prove the smuggling of Iraqi oil to Israel via Kurdistan, and that the revenues were collected by high-ranking Kurdish officials.
The agency said that “there are local sources that have documents proving that the Kurds are smuggling oil to Israel and (others) in a clandestine and illegal way.”
(Written by Dina al-Shibeeb)
What would anyone expect from an Arab ?
Allowing them to declare an Islamic “constitution” was and still is the dumbest part of this whole episode.
It was only to be outdone by allowing the same with Afghanistan.
Up Yours Al-Maliki, Israel doesn't want to associate with your POS country.
I, for one, was Always against the War in Iraq, I always said that problem could have been solved by 2 Thermonuclear Hydrogen Bombs.
So! Unlike other Arab nations, Iraq acknowledges that Israel EXISTS as a nation.
Yes, Iraqi PM Maliki made the usual anti-Israel remark but so does every nation in that region. It’s mostly for Iraqis to hear and appeases the large Muslim contingent in Iraq. It’s no surprise that the anti-Israel mindset in Iraq pretty much mirrors that of every other middle east country. Yes, it’s highly annoying but as the head of a sovereign state, Iraq PM Maliki can say whatever he wants, even though his country’s sovereignty was bought and paid for with American blood and treasure. See how much that impresses any Iraqi.
...As does a group of Egyptian lawyers who claims the Hebrews stole a bunch of their stuff from the Exodus and would sue modern day Israel to get it back.
They are Muslims. Nuff said.
Big surprise there huh?
It is no surprise when a shark acts like a shark, or a muslim like a muslim.
Those Egyptian lawyers are Arabs; the Egyptians at the time of the Exodus were not.
Which? Hussein the First reign thru 2003, or Hussein the Second reign 2008 to current?
Kurdistan doesn’t have to “smuggle” oil to Israel — it’s Kurdish oil, not Iraqi oil. Thanks bayouranger.
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——So! Unlike other Arab nations, Iraq acknowledges that Israel EXISTS as a nation.——
Excellent point...
I guess you can call it baby steps...
Dollars to donuts when Israel bombs Iran nuclear facilities, Iraq will not say a word....
No worries, someday soon the borders of Israel will be the West Bank of the Euphrates.
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