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Kerry’s ‘emotional appeal’ against sanctions flops (told Senators to ignore Israelis)
Times of Israel ^ | November 14, 2013, 2:34 am

Posted on 11/13/2013 9:49:40 PM PST by Dave346

Republican senator reportedly calls presentation on Iran talks ‘anti-Israeli’; aide says Kerry told senators to ignore Israelis

Republicans were left unconvinced after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s closed-door presentation to the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday, which was aimed at delaying a new round of sanctions against Iran.

“It was an emotional appeal,” committee chairman Sen. Bob Corker said, according to the US-based media outlet BuzzFeed. “I have to tell you I was very disappointed in the presentation.”

He said that the briefings by Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman provided no details of a deal being considered in talks between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 in Geneva this month.

“I am stunned that in a classified setting when you’re trying to talk to the very folks that would be originating legislation relative to sanctions, to have such a lack of specificity,” BuzzFeed reported Corker as saying.

Sen. Mark Kirk called the officials’ presentation “very unconvincing,” and added that it was “fairly anti-Israeli.”

“I was supposed to disbelieve everything the Israelis had just told me, and I think the Israelis probably have a pretty good intelligence service.”

The BuzzFeed report cited a Senate aide who said that “every time anybody would say anything about what would the Israelis say they’d get cut off and Kerry would say ‘you have to ignore what they’re telling you, stop listening to the Israelis on this.’”

Kerry said the negotiators should have a ‘few weeks’ more to see if they can reach an agreement.

“The Iranian regime hasn’t paused its nuclear program,” said Rep. Ed Royce, a Republican and House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman. “Why should we pause our sanctions efforts as the administration is pressuring Congress to do?”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; corker; iran; israel; johnkerry; kerry; kirk; nuclear; royce; terror; threatmatrix; war
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To: okie01

No, so Obama can make the claim

He’s still making payments on his Nobel Prize


21 posted on 11/14/2013 4:21:59 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Dave346
The BuzzFeed report cited a Senate aide who said that “every time anybody would say anything about what would the Israelis say they’d get cut off and Kerry would say ‘you have to ignore what they’re telling you, stop listening to the Israelis on this.’”

You can't write a better script in hollywood. Does anyone remember when Kerry was running for President in 2008? He declared he found out that he was actually part Jewish, in an attempt to garner more support from the Jewish community? Well, now he tells Senators to stop listening to the Israelis, and they do - they stopped listening to Kerry!!

22 posted on 11/14/2013 7:32:47 AM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: Dave346

Kerry is an anti Israel POS.


23 posted on 11/14/2013 7:46:50 AM PST by opres
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To: driftdiver

These self hating American Jews keep voting for the likes of Kerry. Insanity! Conservatives are pro Israel and dems are anti Israel.


24 posted on 11/14/2013 7:49:49 AM PST by opres
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To: Dave346

25 posted on 11/14/2013 9:39:54 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Dave346

List of Israeli Nobel Laureates


Arieh Warshel, Chemistry, 2013
Michael Levitt*, born in South Africa, Chemistry, 2013
Dan Shechtman, Chemistry, 2011
Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009
Robert Aumann, born in Germany, Economics, 2005
Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
Avram Hershko, born in Hungary, Chemistry, 2004
Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
Shimon Peres, born in what was then Poland, now Belarus, Peace, 1994
Menachem Begin, born in what was then Russia, now Belarus, Peace, 1978
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, born in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine, Literature, 1966

List of Iranian Nobel Laureates


Shirin Ebadi, Peace, 2003


26 posted on 11/15/2013 9:12:43 AM PST by Westbrook ()Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: JPG

LOLOLOL!!!!


27 posted on 11/15/2013 9:13:40 AM PST by Westbrook ()Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Westbrook

“Shirin Ebadi, Peace, 2003”


Meaningless. Worth no more than a Little League trophy.

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28 posted on 11/15/2013 9:16:12 AM PST by Mears (Liberalism is the art of being easily offended.)
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