{"id":8466,"date":"2010-11-04T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2010-11-04T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T22:10:18","slug":"thursday-iran-talking-points-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/thursday-iran-talking-points-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Iran Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog<\/a>: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 4th, 2010:<\/em><\/p>\n

National Review Online<\/a><\/em>: Foundation for Defense of Democracies<\/a> president Clifford May<\/a> suggests that should Palestinian Authority president Abbas declare Palestine a state and request UN recognition, Obama might not oppose this declaration of statehood because he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153believes in a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctwo-state solution.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d May notes such a move would be met with opposition from Arab countries, because many of them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153define victory as Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s destruction.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Besides, writes May, establishment of Palestinian state would escalate the conflict between Hamas and Fatah. The international community will be uncomfortable backing Hamas, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a terrorist organization openly and unequivocally committed to Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extermination, and guided by the jihadi rules of Iran.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If Hamas gains control of the West bank, it will be obligated to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u2122resist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s existence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and, when Israel responds militarily, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will Syria and Iran come to Hamas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aid?.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This dire scenario, concludes May, is reason for Obama to make absolutely clear \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that he does not want Abbas to bypass negotiations and head down a road leading to a minefield.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Newsweek<\/a><\/em>: Dan Ephron writes that while \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the composition of Congress does not necessarily determine Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to the Middle East,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Israeli leadership may believe that the Republican-led House may be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more amenable to the idea of considering military options in case sanctions don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ephron predicts that the White House will set foreign policy on Iran but Ahmadinejad will offer more resistance to Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s efforts to stop Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear program, perceiving that Obama is now a weaker president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 4th, 2010: National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies president Clifford May suggests that should Palestinian Authority president Abbas declare Palestine a state and request UN recognition, Obama might not oppose this declaration of statehood because he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153believes in a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctwo-state solution.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}