Obama to Barak: I am committed to Israel's security
Obama 'drops by' meeting between Barak and James Jones, asserts commitment to peace process.
By The Associated Press and Natasha Mozgovaya Haaretz Service Tags: Ehud Barak Barack Obama Middle East peace Israel newsU.S. President Barack Obama held an impromptu meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday, during which Obama affirmed his country's "unshakeable commitment to Israel's security."
According to a White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, Obama "dropped by" a Monday morning meeting between Barak and U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones.
Obama also reasserted his administration's determination to achieve regional peace, "including a two-state solution with a secure Jewish state of Israel living side by side in peace and security with a viable and independent Palestinian state."
Barak and the American leaders discussed challenges to regional security,how to deal with threats faced by both the U.S. and Israel and howto move forward toward a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Municipal officials in Jerusalem said Monday that the government had effectively frozen construction of settlements in disputed East Jerusalem despite its public posture that building would continue. U.S. officials had no immediate comment.
Settlement building has been a large sticking point since Israel infuriated Washington last month by announcing a major new housing development in East Jerusalem during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley would not discuss what Israel was telling the United States about construction.
"We have asked both sides to take steps to rebuild trust and to create momentum so that we can see advances in the peace process," Crowley told reporters.
"We're not going to go into details about what we've asked them to do, but obviously this is an important issue in the atmosphere to see the advancement of peace.
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, on Sunday said he held "positive and productive talks" with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an effort "to improve the atmosphere for peace and for proceeding with proximity talks.
Mitchell is expected back in the region next week.
Obama last June also unexpectedly dropped by a meeting between Barak and Jones, despite it not having been on his official schedule.
Last year's unplanned encounter came after senior American officials harshly criticized Netanyahu and his policies, causing tension between the Obama administration and Israel's government.
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Zionists do not have a monopoly on lies; lying is the way of living for politicians who pan to do things that may be necessary but that are stepping on a few toes: and certainly a required thing to do to deal with zionists and their advocates..... it is called bluffing in poker.
One is that Obama won the election by almost twice as many votes as there are Jews in the United States, and; Two is that according to polls, he's VERY popular among American Jews. You really need to ditch that AIPAC mentality, LOL. AIPAC is beginning to deflate, just like a tired old balloon.
This is the same person who once declared that Jerusalem is the undivided Capital of Israel? His promise to keep his "WORD" is like an Arab keeping his word. When will the Arab end its illegal occupation of Israeli Land? I think Israel should expell the Arabs the same way the Arab Countries expelled their Jewish Citizens!
on U.S. policy regarding Israel's illegal occupations and settlement building. Try not to blame him too much for his naivete at the time - and certainly don't blame him for not closing his eyes and pretending otherwise, since the international laws that direct that policy aren't easily disguised.
Too bad the Israeli government isn't!
Peace with the Palestinians is not security risk for Israel. The end of the two states for two peoples isn't a "security" threat either. So why all the reassurances? So powerful and so insecure?
oh wow! so now that hussein droped in...everything is just peachy, right? does this guy really think that people are not seeing through him that there is NO SUBSTANCE in anything he does. his word is worth ZERO! (please look up his speach to aipac june 2008 as a candidate, and his 180 reversal now that he temporarily sits in the oval office..
on which grounds? His own? what about 1-billions every year, 2 - used to kill Palestinians and steal land? 3 - how about bantustans policy? 4 - rthnic cleansing? etc.
and you will contribute big time to disappearance of "next week". if you think hashem will watch this miserable show forever you are dreaming
are you normal?
Obama is president only because he received Jewish political support and will only remain president if he continues to receive it which is dependent on how Obama treats US ally Israel.
He tries to appease Arabs at Israel expense and by weakening the country. This man is an ennemy of Israel even if he uses nice words like peace to cover his ugly intentions.
Paaaaleees, stop pissing on Israel's head and telling them it's raining. US Jews are just dumb enough to buy it.
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Bibi Netanyahu has to go. After all he only got 24% of the votes and has been a total failure, Obama "just dropped by"...interesting.
No amount of PR - to trot out some trite polispeak, can hide the fact that Obama has done more to harm Israel than any of his predecessors in office. His insistence that there be a total settlement freeze opened the gates for other western countries to follow suite and nod and bray - and for the Palestinians to sit on their hands (so sore after all that clapping) and do exactly zero. Well golly gee! Thanks for nothing Obama.
In the USA, when seeking employment, the rule is that the more a company emphasizes how much they are an Equal Opportunity Employer, the more you know that minorities don't have a hope of getting in there. The more President Obama goes on and on about how he really is committed to protecting Israel, the more we all know that he is actually the enemy's best friend. And as a black American, he should know better, too.
Israel better learn from Abraham Lincoln,United we stand;divided we fall. This Prsident is trying to divide Israel. They are encouraging one leader against another. Barak should stand with our present leader of Israel. This administration is not pro Israel. Only Israel can guarantee its security.
He is giving lebanon army drones which wind up with hezbollah, He is giving assad sensitive communication systems and airplane parts. Assad who holds a missile conference with iran, islamic jihad, hamas and hezbollah. No demands made on assad as obama is now giving assad IMF entry. That is why Obama has stopped weapons to israel. Yeah real committed to israel's security. Assad's foreign minister, hezbollah, hamas all talk about hitting israeli cities with rockets.
Ask Vietnam and Kambodgia what US assurances worth (or "worse"). Especially now, when a US president does not honor written assurances given by a previous president.
Israel's security as an independant modern Jewish nation is being jeopardized by the land compromise making Jews live cheek to jowel with so many arabs. The land compromise trades false promises of physical security for future demographic and economic growth favoring a people and culture that is backward and an unproductive allocation of limited resources, land for Jeiwsh settlement. The land isn't really very good, so why do the arabs wnat it? The true natural resource of Israel is its people and G-d, and they need protected physical space to develope more of it. The arabs gain nothing for themselves that they can't get elsewhere - failed economies and governments, but cap Jewish development and growth. Obama is offering nothing but the opportunity to have more scuds rain down, this time from the Iranians.
Obama when it comes to saying nice things about Israel nobody believes a word of it. Your good at making big speeches where you promise to be all things to all people but your no good at comedy so leave the jokes to the experts like Gadaffi & Ahmadinejad at least then you will sound more sincere.
Obama stopped the sale of needed weaponry to Israel, while he approved sale of offensive weaponry such as F-16s etc to Egypt and other Arab Islamist-Jihadist countries in the region. His words are hollow. Action speaks louder than words.
It appears that Pres. Obama conceals his Arab affinity over Israel. It's what happens when you hear sermons for umpteen years bashing Israel etc. Decent people would walk out of such hate sermons. But this is not the case here. Hamas loving preachers from Europe forbidden in past to enter the U.S. under the previous Bush administration are now being permitted entrance where they are already causing a stir. Hamas supporter Rahid Husain has been appointed ambassador to Arab states by Pres. Obama. Hamas supporters now have access to the White House and to pres. advise Valerie G. and inner security head Janet N. John B. adviser on terror is sent as apologist speaking in Arabic on campuses. Wall St. Journal named names of above islamist supporters, NY Post called it a Jihad in NY etc., and NY Times referreed it as quiet cozying up to the Muslims Abbas knows that he has to do nothing because only Israel will get blamed either way. It's alleged byt new top appointee who leaked that from the outset it was decided to place Israel just short of under the bus.
Don't believe a word this president says..is actions speak louder than his words.
Except for the chorus of Likud puppets in the US, we all know that. The question is, "is Israel committed to the US's security?" Answer: obviously not.
Nobody has an unshakable commitment to any body, and that goes for the Israel, U.S. relations and Obama knows it and Israel knows it too.And any body who thinks otherwise should have their head examined.
Sorry, try as I might, I JUST CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT OBAMA IS REALLY COMMITTED TO ISRAEL'S SECURITY. Just don't believe these verbal remarks. Actions are always more convincing. Boils down to Iran - what are you going to DO, OBAMA?