Obama misplaced trust in Netanyahu
A letter from a group of former intelligence professionals imploring US President Barack Obama to prevent a war with Iran sharply critiqued Israel and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies, saying they should not be trusted.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) said on Tuesday that "comments by senior American officials, you included, reflect misplaced trust in Israeli Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu" and that Obama's friendly tone with Netanyahu "was distinctly out of tune with decades of unfortunate history with Israeli leaders."
The VIPS letter quoted Obama as saying about Netanyahu “neither of us try to surprise each other," adding that the president "may wish to ask Vice President Biden to remind you of the kind of surprises he has encountered in Israel."
VIPS is a group of former intelligence professionals of current and former US intelligence officials that was founded in 2003 to protest the use of faulty intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. It is headed by former top officials from the CIA, State Department, Department of Deffense, US military and other agencies.
The organization accused Israel of consistantly deceiving the US: "Blindsiding has long been an arrow in Israel’s quiver. During the emerging Middle East crisis in the spring of 1967, some of us witnessed closely a flood of Israeli surprises and deception, as Netanyahu’s predecessors feigned fear of an imminent Arab attack as justification for starting a war to seize and occupy Arab territories...We had long since concluded that Israel had been exaggerating the Arab 'threat.'"
VIPS then quotes Ha'aretz columnist Gideon Levy, who called Netanyahu “a con artist … who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes."
Source: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=183772
these guys are all con artists.
You moron.. You keep spoiling the threads.. Why not post a new thread for this..
When 'Uncle SAM' is in Israel pocket then no matter how many americans or american organisations say the truth........they will getaway with their crime no matter how illegal and how heinous it is or it will be.
Long live......so called freedom loving, human rights flag bearers and civilised countries.
Netanyahu is definitely a con artist. He is a hawk, who loves power.
Having said that, it is in Israel's interest to continually portray Iran as the bogeyman and garner support from the public especially in order to get the US support.