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‘Tit for Tat’ - Obama Admin official describes Bulgarian attack as ‘tit for tat’ reprisal
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 7/20/12 | staff

Posted on 07/20/2012 8:12:19 PM PDT by Nachum

In the aftermath of the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the Obama administration included an Iranian-American anti-Israel group in a White House meeting and characterized the terror attack as a “tit-for-tat” reprisal by Iran.

Wednesday, officials from the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC) attended a White House roundtable event for Iranian-American community leaders that featured Valerie Jarrett, one of President Obama’s closest advisers.

NIAC bills itself as an Iranian-American community organization, but its work focuses on softening U.S. policy toward Iran. It advocates removing sanctions on Iran and attempted to scuttle Dennis Ross’s promotion to an Iran policy role in the White House. A recent membership survey conducted by NIAC received only 500 responses.

The day before the White House meeting, NIAC’s president, Trita Parsi, who does not hold American citizenship, published an article in the Daily Beast alleging that Israeli leaders viewed the murder of their civilians in the Bulgaria bombing with satisfaction. ”US officials have privately expressed concern that one of the purposes of Israeli attacks in Iran has been to generate an Iranian response that could serve as a casus belli for Israel,” Parsi wrote. “That way, Israel could target Iran’s nuclear facilities without paying the heavy political cost of starting a preventive war.”

While Parsi speculated that the murder of tourists marked the achievement of an Israeli policy goal, a ”senior American official” quoted in the New York Times said the attack “was tit for tat”—retaliation for Israel’s alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
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To: Nachum

Israel is above reproach with regards to this matter, disgusting,I am convinced this administration truly hates Israel, they see Her enemies as right, for them to even associate tourists as justified targets for reprisal is, well, disgusting, and very telling, God look after Israel, the United States is in for a bumpy ride, for our leaders have turned their collective backs on Her and God’s wrath is sure to follow!


21 posted on 07/21/2012 5:29:34 AM PDT by IslamE (epiphany)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Nachum.

What’s Valerie Jarrett’s FR nick’?


22 posted on 07/21/2012 6:17:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Obama bows down to Saudi King | American Thinker | April 02, 2009 | Clarice Feldman | Posted on 04/02/2009 8:19:47 AM PDT by rdb3
Obama bows down to Saudi King | American Thinker | April 02, 2009 | Clarice Feldman | Posted on 04/02/2009 8:19:47 AM PDT by rdb3

23 posted on 07/21/2012 6:19:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

......What’s Valerie Jarrett’s FR nick’?.....

The Bitch


24 posted on 07/21/2012 6:19:44 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: bert

:’D


25 posted on 07/21/2012 6:23:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Nachum
It don't matter. He will still get at least 70% of the Jewish vote merely for the fact that he is not a Republican. Even if he got a 100% of the Jewish vote along with a 100% of the Black vote, it would not be enough to elect him. Why? Because both groups combined are not large enough. Combined, they probly maje up less than 25% of the total population.

What put obama in the WhiteHouse and what will keep him there are Whites. White self hating Liberals and Leftists. white parasites, Whites who preferslavery to freedom. Whites who prefer cradle to grave ass wiping by the Government over freedom and personal responsibility.As 2008 demonstrated they are now more parasites that producers.

26 posted on 07/21/2012 6:36:09 AM PDT by sport
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To: Irenic

why were the children on that bus “children of terrorists”?

Did their parents work for Israeli military intelligence countering Iran’s WMD program?

Or because they were Israeli? (ergo, all Israelis are terrorist)

Or simply because they were Jews? (ergo, all Jews are terrorists)

Like the Argentine Jews killed by Iran 20 years ago in their community center? Like the French children killed at their Jewish school? Like the Russian children killed at Breslan?

Your conclusion about “the children of terrorists” beiong an entire political group, ideology, nation or religion is also logical to al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Andre Brevik and history’s apologists for genocide.


27 posted on 07/21/2012 7:17:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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To: Nachum

_______g commies.


28 posted on 07/21/2012 7:32:47 AM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: Nachum

Ths is like the phrase “cycle of violence,” which anti-Israelis (or just plain anti-semties) use to talk about the terrorism and wars Israel has faced for 60+ years.


29 posted on 07/21/2012 8:31:48 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: silverleaf

I think you have misunderstood what I was meaning.

Do I think what happened to Israelis on that bus is OK, tit for tat, whatever? Hell no and I don’t care if every single Israeli was an adult and all were over 100 years old and NO children were killed—it is wrong and I hope Israel makes Iran pay.

We know damn well that Obama wouldn’t casually say tit for tat if Muslim terrorists had blown up a bus his daughter and her school friends may have taken while visiting Mexico.

Obama uses drones that take out terrorists, whole families and then some. Obama either believes what he says and it is all fair or he is saying it is only tit for tat if it is Israelis.

This man must be voted out. I hope that I am more clear in this post.

I am NOT for the killing of Israelis at all period end of story, none, ZERO, zilch. I in NO way have ANYTHING in common with al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Andre Brevik or OBAMA. I am not an apologists for genocide and I take offense to that comment.


30 posted on 07/21/2012 10:24:39 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Nachum

Yet the vast amjority of Jewish voters will donate/vote/mobilize the GOTV for Obama again. They seem to like/want this. Real head scratcher.


31 posted on 07/21/2012 10:12:08 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Romney? Really? Seriously?)
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32 posted on 07/23/2012 9:33:55 AM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people people die of natural causes)
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To: sport
It don't matter. He will still get at least 70% of the Jewish vote merely for the fact that he is not a Republican. Even if he got a 100% of the Jewish vote along with a 100% of the Black vote, it would not be enough to elect him. Why? Because both groups combined are not large enough. Combined, they probly maje up less than 25% of the total population.

Even less. According to Wikipedia, Blacks make up 12.6% of the population; 1.7% of the USA is Jewish.

33 posted on 07/23/2012 1:00:23 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Nachum

If this was a reprisal for killing Iranian nuclear scientists, did they believe the teenagers on the bus had assassinated a nuclear scientist, were about to assassinate a nuclear scientist, or were nuclear scientists themselves? Or was it because they were Joooooos! or something? Tit4tat has switched weapons, from a scoped sniper’s rifle to a shotgun.


34 posted on 07/23/2012 1:59:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Nachum
What is the National Iranian American Council? The Council is widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America. It opposes sanctions on Iran, soft-pedals any controversial events in Iran, and counsels "patience" regarding Iran's stance towards its nuclear program. The NIAC has been at the forefront of lobbying against continued congressional funding of the Voice of America Persia service, Radio Farad, and grants for Iranian civil society. To top it off, the NIAC has reportedly received funding from anti-Israel advocate George Soros, who at the very least was an honored guest and speaker at one of its symposiums. (He called for a more equitable Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and advocated for America to renounce regime-change as a goal). -----AmericanThinker
35 posted on 07/29/2012 11:31:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nachum

The Hamas-supporting CAIR and the Iranian oriented NIAC share the same PR firm : Fenton Communications, the folks who created the Alar scare against apple farmers on behalf of a lobby, and the dairy hormone scare on behalf of ben and Jerrys’.


36 posted on 07/29/2012 11:35:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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