Posted on 07/29/2012 2:52:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama aide tells Israel of Iran attack plan: paper ReutersReuters – 3 hrs ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's national security adviser has briefed Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a U.S. contingency plan to attack Iran should diplomacy fail to curb its nuclear program, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday.
The Haaretz newspaper said that the U.S. adviser - Thomas Donilon - had described the plan in talks with Netanyahu earlier this month.
A senior Netanyahu aide, Harel Locker, refused to comment on the report when asked about it in an interview with an Israeli radio station. Another Israeli official reached by telephone, said "we do not comment on closed-door diplomatic meetings".
Haaretz said the secret briefing was the most significant effort by high-level U.S. officials who had visited Israel in the past month, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to try to dissuade Israel from launching its own military strike on Iran.
The report coincided with a visit to Israel by Obama's main rival in his reelection bid this November, Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who is due to meet Netanyahu on Sunday.
Quoting a senior U.S. official it said spoke on condition of anonymity, Haaretz said Donilon had told Netanyahu the Pentagon was planning for a possible decision to attack Iran's nuclear sites, and had shown him some of the plans.
In their talks, the same official said Donilon had also detailed the U.S. military's ability to penetrate nuclear facilities buried deep underground, and had said that such contingency plans were being drawn up in case of a possible deadlock in diplomacy with Iran.
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The Israelis say they don’t comment on closed meetings
so that means this administration LEAKED again!
And Donilon no less.
Indeed send out the paper tigers.
Why would the White House even release this info to the press? It’s just another example of their trying to look big and brave. Knowing this administration, they’ve probably already given Iran the specifics too.
Reuters should be bombed to smithereens.
Anytime you see that phrase, you can be sure it really means "directed to leak the info to the press".
The OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
The ones who think the way to keep the ship afloat is to drill more holes in the bottom so the water can get out.
No, in that report JPost is being a mouthpiece for Netanyahu in saying they deny the report about Thomas Donilon.
In a Democratic administration, certainly.
Obama has been incredibly weak on Israel and he's lost Jewish support. Romney is now talking tough on Iran, so Obama has to pretend to be tough also to try to get those votes back from Romney.
The Dems will suffer much over the next few years if the GOP gets historic electoral gains among Jews.
Obama has been incredibly weak on Israel and he's lost Jewish support. Romney is now talking tough on Iran, so Obama has to pretend to be tough also to try to get those votes back from Romney.
The Dems will suffer much over the next few years if the GOP gets historic electoral gains among Jews.
Oh what a coincidence this comes out today when Romney is in Israel and meeting with Netanyahu. Queen Obama has no intentions of attacking Iran and is only saying so to counter Romney’s tough stance.
Romney should take credit for this, as well as for the security deal Obama signed Friday. Something like "if I wasn't putting pressure on the Obama administration, this wouldn't have happened". Kinda like Obama touting his stimulus "imagine how much worse it would have been had I not blah blah blah"
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