Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Barack Obama (file photo)
Mon May 28, 2012 1:14AM GMT
Washington is under the diabolical spell of the Zionists and… every step they take is in fact weighed and decided by the Zionist lobby within the US ruling system, and as the Persian saying goes, they are not even allowed to drink water without their [Zionists] permission.”
Dr. Ismail Salami, Iranian author and Middle East expert
A political analyst says the United States policies towards Iran, including Washington’s approach regarding the Iranian nuclear energy program, are precisely dictated by the US-based Zionist lobby of Israel.
“Washington is under the diabolical spell of the Zionists and…every step they take is in fact weighed and decided by the Zionist lobby within the US ruling system, and as the Persian saying goes, they are not even allowed to drink water without their [Zionists] permission,” wrote Dr. Ismail Salami, Iranian author and Middle East expert, in an article published on Press TV’s website on Saturday.
Referring to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks that “All of our sanctions [against the Islamic Republic] will remain in place,” he added that “no matter how hard Tehran tries to cast aside the US-manufactured doubts and fears concerning Iran nuclear energy program, Washington will never relinquish its Zionist-friendly anti-Iran policies.
The Iranian author also pointed to the US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman’s hasty trip to Israel after the May 23-24 talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers on Tehran’s nuclear energy program “to brief the Israeli officials on the new nuclear developments and ‘reaffirm our [US] unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security.’”
However, “So overpowering and biting was the feeling of anger in the Zionist officials that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak declined to receive the top negotiator on Iran for reasons clearly discernible to the mortified US negotiator and to Washington as well,” he said.
Salami highlighted the rift within the American establishment over the Iranian nuclear activities, distinguishing one group which favors “resolving” the dispute over Iran’s nuclear energy program and another which seeks to “politicize” the issue in favor of “the Zionist regime.”
The first group, he said, knows that “there is no diversion towards military use in the country’s nuclear program on the strength of the reports provided by the intelligence agencies in the US,” which is interestingly the reason it “is held in extreme Zionist contempt.”
According to Los Angeles Times on February 23, the most recent US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, which “represents the consensus of 16 US intelligence agencies,” and was published this year, confirmed with “high confidence” the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.
The second group, however, “constitutes those who are at the becks and calls of the Zionists,” the expert noted. These, he said, “politicize Iran nuclear energy program and make every financial, political and security effort to safeguard the interests of the Zionist regime i.e. downgrading or even violating Iran’s inalienable right to the civilian use of nuclear energy.”
The author of Iran, Cradle of Civilization finally pointed to “desperate” Israeli attempts to misrepresent the Iranian peaceful nuclear activities and portray Iran as a “nuclear threat” so that it can persuade its “lapdog Washington” into enforcing further sanctions on the country.
“As long as Israel breathes down Washington’s neck, there is little hope the nuclear dispute will be resolved once and for all; and the future talks will eventually enter into infinite loop conditions.”
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Something Is Fishy About The Arrest Of The Pope’s Butler Posted on May 27, 2012
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Source: Business Insider
May 27, 2012, 5:29 AM
The Pope’s personal butler, Paolo Gabriele, 46 was arrested last week in connection with the leaking of letters from the Vatican, including many personal ones to and from Pope Benedict himself.
The story has all the elements of a punchline, or a 19th century potboiler. A butler being held in the Vatican’s own rarely-used jail, spying on the Holy Father.
The truth can be better than fiction and it usually is.
But there is something a little off about this story – at least to this Vatican-watcher.
Some of the leaked letters have exposed embarrassing mismanagement at Vatican palace, and enormous power struggles, and they are being published in a book in Italy later this month.
This arrest comes during the same week that the Vatican dismissed the head of its own bank, Gotti Tedeschi, after a no confidence vote. Tedeschi was suspected of money-laundering and mismanagement. The leaked letters seem to have moved Vatican officials to act more quickly.
Earlier this year, it was reported that the leaked letters contained the correspondence of a prelate, Carlo Maria Vigano, working in Rome who told the Holy Father about corruption in the Vatican’s money-management. Vigano pleaded with Benedict to hold onto his post so that he could continue the Holy Father’s mission of cleaning house, but Vigano was transferred to the States at the Holy Father’s diplomatic representative.
However, there is something about this story that makes little sense. Gabriele is the guy who helps the Pope get dressed, and handles things in the papal apartment. He was also appointed to his role under John Paul II. He absolutely would have access to some of the letters that have been leaked.
But many of the leaks out of the Vatican over the past two years have not been of personal letters to and from the pope, they’ve been out of the offices of the Vatican’s secretary of state. There is not a chance that Gabriele could have access to them.
It would be as if the Obama’s personal babysitter suddenly got access to files at the Pentagon. The butler may be guilty. And he may be the one chiefly responsible for the letters published later this month.
But it just isn’t plausible that he is the only leaker. The most humiliating leaks have come from inside the curial offices, that is from another high-ranking Cardinal. Perhaps someone who could even become the next Pope.
Correction: An earlier version of the article incorrectly referred to Carlo Vigana as an American, he is Italian.
