When opportunity knocks"
"Israel disses US while seeking "bi-lateral alliance' with
Russia
Franklin
Lamb
Beirut
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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