I ask myself if the tide might be turning for the zionist state.
In 2012 the only media who were reporting on the Israeli attacks on Gaza were literally al-Jazeera and Harry Fear. Now the message is getting out for all to see - including, it seems, this time, on US television
"Shocked" White House Slams "Fabrication" After Israel TV Leaks Damning Transcript Of Obama-Netanyahu Phone Call
In 2012 the only media who were reporting on the Israeli attacks on Gaza were literally al-Jazeera and Harry Fear. Now the message is getting out for all to see - including, it seems, this time, on US television
"Shocked" White House Slams "Fabrication" After Israel TV Leaks Damning Transcript Of Obama-Netanyahu Phone Call
29 July, 2014
While everyone's attention is glued on Russia and whether Obama can successfully launch World War III, things are going from bad to worse when it also comes to US relations with Israel. Recall that here things were already on the verge of disaster after for some reason, Kerry was unleashed to "arrange" a ceasefire with Israel, when in reality the SecState somehow managed to infuriate every single feuding faction (there are a lot of them), Israel included, after Haaretz wrote that "Kerry ruined everything."
So
what happened next? Something rather stunning according to the US
State Department, and which according to BBC reporter Paul Danahar,
constitutes "a severe violation of a private discussions" -
Israel’s Channel 1 decided to publish a Hebrew transcript of a
portion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack
Obama’s telephone conversation which took place on Sunday, in which
Obama was insistent that Israel unilaterally halt all military
activities in the Gaza Strip. As is quite clear by now, Israel
rejected, and the bloodshed continued.
The
transcript, as shown
by the Times of Israel was as follows:
The
following is an English translation of the Hebrew account of the talk
given in the report:
Barack
Obama: I demand that Israel
agrees to an immediate, unilateral ceasefire and halt all offensive
activities, in particular airstrikes.
Benjamin
Netanyahu: And what will Israel
receive in exchange for a ceasefire?
BO:
I believe that Hamas will cease its rocket fire — silence will be
met with silence.
BN:
Hamas broke all five previous ceasefires. It’s a terrorist
organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
BO:
I repeat and expect Israel to stop all its military activities
unilaterally. The pictures of destruction in Gaza distance the world
from Israel’s position.
BN:
Kerry’s proposal was completely unrealistic and gives Hamas
military and diplomatic advantages.
BO:
Within a week of the end of Israel’s military activities, Qatar and
Turkey will begin negotiations with Hamas based on the 2012
understandings, including Israel’s commitment to removing the siege
and restrictions on Gaza.
BN:
Qatar and Turkey are the biggest supporters of Hamas. It’s
impossible to rely on them to be fair mediators.
BO:
I trust Qatar and Turkey. Israel is not in the position that it can
choose its mediators.
BN:
I protest because Hamas can continue to launch rockets and use
tunnels for terror attacks –
BO:
(interrupting Netanyahu) The ball’s in Israel’s court, and it
must end all its military activities.
One
can quickly see why the US would quickly disavow any credibility of
this report: after all it wouldn't look very good for the leader of
the free world if the leader of another state, one which on top of it
all is reliant on the former for continued military and economic
support, flat out rejected what amounted to a demand from the US. As
expected the denial was prompt with the US administration calling the
quotations "fabrications", "shocking",
and "disappointing"
It
took mere minutes for the National Security Council to deny the
transcript was even remotely accurate:
Sure
enough, it wouldn't look good if only the US denied so Netanyahu had
to step in, which he did:
The
Prime Minister’s Office says in a statement that the Channel 1
report is false, using precisely the same words as the White House.
“We
have seen these reports, and neither the reports nor the alleged
transcript bear any resemblance to reality. It’s shocking and
disappointing that someone would sink to misrepresenting a private
conversation between the President and the Prime Minister in
fabrications to the Israeli press,” the
PMO says.
Despite
the denials, Israel's Channel 1 refused to retract the leaked
statement. Worse, it revealed the source of the leak as a "senior
American official."
Despite
rejections by American and Israeli officials, Channel 1?s Or Nahari
insists that the transcript leaked to him by a “senior American
official” is authentic, but acknowledges that the quotes he
published were merely an excerpt from a long conversation.
All
of which leads to three quite disturbing, for Obama, possibilities:
- With Russia clearly ignoring US "superpower" status and openly defying not only the US, but Europe, and hence NATO, Obama now has another foreign relations disaster on his hands, where a former close ally of the US is now openly refusing to bow down to US demands.
- There is a leak in the highest echelons of US power, one which appears focused on exposing the administration in a position of weakness
- The media tactics of fabrication and lies, so prevalent in the US vs Russia proxy war through the Ukraine, have now seeped over into US-Israel relations
Whichever
one of these is the truth, it simply means that the old Pax Americana
world, in which the word of the US president was final, is no more,
and first Russia (and thus the BRICs), and now such staunch allies as
Israel, are clearly defying the former. Or perhaps one should
add former superpower?
As
for John Kerry, just stick a fork in him already as per the following
clip.
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