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"Israel disses US while seeking "bi-lateral alliance' with Russia

 

Franklin Lamb

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Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about subjectivity in the eyes of the beholders.

Post-event statements, whether following last weekend's Geneva meeting on Syria which produced markedly different interpretations of the final communiquà © language by the Russian and American Foreign Ministers, Sergei Lavrov (that Syria's President Bashar Assad need not necessarily depart-depending on what the Syrian people decide) and Hillary Clinton, (Assad's departure is absolutely required) may have sent French, Russian and English language interpreters looking for their thesaurus.  

Similarly, vastly divergent Russian-Israeli interpretations about what was agreed to during the 24 hour " just passing through" visit by   Vladimir Putin to Palestine and   the Zionist lobby's touting of " a new Israel-Russia bi-lateral alliance"   suggests serious wishful thinking by one side according to an official at the Russian Embassy in Beirut with whom this observer discussed last week's Putin visit.

At a joint news conference after their meeting, Mr. Netanyahu said he and Mr. Putin had agreed that the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran "presents a grave danger first of all to Israel, and to the region and the world as a whole." Israel, Netanyahu announced on 6/25/12, to raised eyebrows from some among the 400 member visiting Russian delegation, expects the once and likely future superpower to support expanded sanctions against Tehran, demand a halt to all uranium enrichment by Iran, insist on the removal of all enriched uranium from Iran and the dismantling of an underground nuclear facility near the city of Qum.

 

  For Putin's part, he only proffered that he and Netanyahu had discussed Syria and the Iranian nuclear program and that the talks had been "useful".   During his short visit Putin inaugurated a memorial in Netanya for Soviet troops killed in World War II and presumably had others motives given Russia's interest in Israel's defense industry.   In the last two years Russia has purchased 12 drones from different Israeli companies.

 

 

  The newly inaugurated Russian president , who has said he regarded the breakup of the Soviet Union as a geopolitical catastrophe, defended the Iranian people's right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes but pointed out at the same time that Iran should guarantee non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, but in any case, the problem should be solved peacefully, by way of talks.

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