Hillary Clinton meets Israeli leaders amid regional upheavals

July 16th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Fears have been raised that Morsi, who emerged out of the Islamist Muslim
Brotherhood to be sworn in as Egypt’s first democratically elected
president, might seek to renegotiate the treaty.

“Israel has a deep stake in Egypt’s role as a leader in regional peace
and security and Egypt’s commitment to the Egyptian-Israeli treaty of peace,”
the US official said.

Travelling with Clinton are US Middle East envoy David Hale and Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, who represents
Washington at the talks between world powers and Iran.

Clinton met first on Monday with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman at
the foreign ministry in Jerusalem. A crowd of staff turned out to see the US
secretary as she was greeted in the blazing sunshine by her Israeli
counterpart.

She was also to meet with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, after talks
on July 6 at the start of her trip in Paris with Palestinian president
Mahmud Abbas.

Direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations have been on hold since late
September 2010 following an intractable dispute over settlements.

And the United States has sought so far in vain to bring the two sides closer
together.

“Obviously, every day that goes by where there is not a peace agreement
is a day, that leaves us unsatisfied,” the State Department official
told reporters travelling with the delegation.

“Of course we would have liked to have been coming on this trip to sign a
peace deal. We would have liked to have done that two years ago,” he
said.

“The fact that we have been unable to do so is a testament to the
difficulty of the challenge. But the fact that we’re still at it is a
testament to just how important the issue is to us, and to her personally.”

The Palestinians are demanding that Israel halt construction on land they want
for a future state and accept a framework for talks on borders.

And Abbas has also said Israel must release 123 Palestinians it has held since
before the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords, claiming Israel committed to
free them but has yet to do so.

But Israel wants immediate return to talks without preconditions.

Iran is also a major issue on the agenda, with the US seeking to “compare
notes” with Israel both on Tehran’s suspect nuclear programme and “its
activities in the region.”

Western nations and Israel have accused Iran of seeking to develop nuclear
weapons under the guise of a civilian uranium enrichment programme, charges
adamantly denied by Tehran.

But the United States has also accused Tehran of actively aiding Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad in his brutal crackdown on opposition forces
seeking to oust him.

Source: AFP