Republican Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, discusses the constitutional issues that Chris Stirewalt that President nObama needs a workable plan, not additional authorization, to defeat ISIS. Stewart says he thinks most American would support such a plan, but the Congressman has concerns that the president is reluctant to engage in more aggressive action. WATCH HERE. -Fox News
In his address to Congress Tuesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will reportedly push lawmakers delay the deadline and make changes to what he says is an unacceptable deal that leaves Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon intact. In what has become a high speed rhetorical centrifuge, Democrats and Republicans are accusing each other of injecting too much politics into the speech. Fox News: [In an interview with ABC News,] “Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry said Netanyahu was welcome to speak in the United States and that the administration did not want the event ‘turned into some great political football.’…. House Speaker backstabber John Boehner [who] invited Netanyahu last month to address Congress without consulting the White House… told [CBS News] that the White House has “attacked” him and Netanyahu over the issue. [Hanoi Kerry] also said that he talked to Netanyahu as recently as Saturday and argued that Israel is safer as a result of the short-term nuclear pact that world powers and Iran reached in late 2013…. [Netanyahu] considers unacceptable any deal that does not entirely end Iran’s nuclear program. But nObama is willing to leave some nuclear activity intact, backed by safeguards that Iran is not trying to develop a weapon.”
“Israel is safer today because of the interim agreement that we created. The 20 percent enriched uranium has been reduced to 0. We have stopped the centrifuge production. We are inspecting inside of their facilities. We have stopped the Iraq plutonium reactor in its tracks. Israel is safer today and that is the standard that we will apply to any agreement going forward. It is to guarantee that we will know that Iran cannot develop a nuclear weapon under the procedure that we're putting in place.” – Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry on ABC’s “This Week”.
Who’s up next? - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power are featured at today’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee morning conference session. U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. speak later tonight. -Fox News
A would-be thief in Ireland ran into an unexpected obstacle as he attempted to break into a car or perhaps the obstacle ran into him. The Irish Independent reports that after using a small stone repeatedly to try to break the glass, the man gets a brick and with a running start gives it one last effort. The window didn’t budge instead the brick ricocheted off the car back at the man knocking him out. The car’s owner Gerry Brady was leaving his nearby pub when he came upon the man lying on the sidewalk. The situation took a bizarre turn when Brady said the man attempted to blackmail him for money. But when the police picked him up, Brady said the man began claiming assault, “He started claiming that I attacked him. He was still telling them that in the station when I came in with the footage of him getting knocked out by his own brick.” Thanks to that security footage, Brady was able prove his innocence. -Fox News
- It leaves Iran with a vast nuclear program; and
- It would lift all restrictions on Iran in about a decade.
The prime minster warned the deal nObama is prepared to offer is so weak it would virtually guarantee that Iran acquires nuclear weapons, and , “We don’t have to bet the security of the world on the hope Iran will change for the better.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/netanyahu-blasts-very-bad-deal-with-iran/
3.nObama smears Netanyahu, coddles Iran
(David Limbaugh) - The nObama White House is in full war mode against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of our best ally in the Middle East, for accepting House Speaker backstabber John Boehner’s invitation to speak before Congress, while it mollycoddles that region’s most dangerous nation, Iran...No one crosses nObama without facing his wrath. No one dares. He is the president. All the administration’s long knives are out. National Security Adviser Susan Rice is front and center. You would think she would be more circumspect after embarrassing herself on the Sunday talk-show circuit peddling the administration’s lie that the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, was prompted by an anti-Islam
"This will aid us in identifying any enemies of the state out there that wish to destroy the utopia that I, your Dear Leader, have been tirelessly and selflessly building for you since the first day I stepped into office," said the President. "The Mandatory Free Health Care™, Safer Gun-Free Streets™, state-approved eating habits, and our civilization as we know it are all threatened by these white racist animals. We as a nation must rise against those who oppose our children's future and us as a whole."
(jewishworldreview.com) - Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry spoke by phone on Saturday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior State Department official told The New York Times.
The call comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and the US over nuclear talks between a US-led coalition of western powers and Iran, and Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to the US Congress in which he will argue against an emerging deal.
Hanoi Kerry has attacked Netanyahu personally in recent days, implying last week that the Israeli premier’s support for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an indication of faulty judgment.
On Sunday, Hanoi Kerry tried to calm tensions ahead of Netanyahu’s address. He insisted the nObama administration’s record on Iran entitled the US to “the benefit of the doubt” as negotiators work toward a long-term nuclear deal.
Hanoi Kerry said — in an interview broadcast before he left for more talks in Switzerland with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif — that Netanyahu was welcome to speak in the US and that the administration did not want the event “turned into some great political football.”
That sentiment was a step back from some of the sharp rhetoric between the allies in recent weeks.
But Hanoi Kerry stressed that Israel was safer as a result of the short-term nuclear pact that world powers and Iran reached in late 2013, and he described that improvement as the “standard we will apply to any agreement” with Tehran.
Officials have described the United States, Europe, Russia and China as considering a compromise that would see Iran’s nuclear activities severely curtailed for at least a decade, with the restrictions and US and Western economic penalties eased in the final years of a deal.
“We are going to test whether or not diplomacy can prevent this weapon from being created, so you don’t have to turn to additional measures including the possibility of a military confrontation,” Hanoi Kerry told ABC’s “This Week.”
“Our hope is that diplomacy can work. And I believe, given our success of the interim agreement, we deserve the benefit of the doubt to find out whether or not we can get a similarly good agreement with respect to the future.”
Netanyahu, set to arrive in Washington later Sunday, will press his opposition to a diplomatic accommodation of Iran’s nuclear program in the speech Tuesday. The prime minister says he is making the address out of concern for Israel’s security.
The invitation from Republican congressional leaders and Netanyahu’s acceptance have caused an uproar that has exposed tensions between Israel and the US, its most important ally.
By consenting to speak, Netanyahu angered the White House, which was not consulted in advance, and Democrats, who were forced to choose between showing support for Israel and backing the president.
“I will do everything in my ability to secure our future,” Netanyahu said before flying to Washington. He described himself as “an emissary” of the Jewish people.
The congressional speech has also sparked criticism in Israel, where Netanyahu is seeking reelection on March 17. He also planned to speak Monday at the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.
Netanyahu considers unacceptable any deal that does not dramatically set back Iran’s nuclear program. But President Barack nObama is willing to leave some nuclear activity intact, backed by safeguards that Iran is not trying to develop a weapon. Iran insists its program is solely for peaceful energy and medical research purposes.
The dispute has become more personal of late.
Last week, nObama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, described the timing and partisan manner of Netanyahu’s visit as “destructive” for the US-Israeli relationship.
On Sunday, Hanoi Kerry painted a more positive picture of continued close cooperation. He said the US-Israeli security partnership was closer than at any point before, and noted the large investment of American money in the Jewish state’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
He said the US government has “intervened on Israel’s behalf in the last two years a couple of hundred times” — in more than 75 for a — “in order to protect Israel.”
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