U.S. Signals It Won't Be Backing Israel - 'We Have To Do Everything We Can To Give The Diplomatic Solution A Chance To Operate'

Joseph Farah * WND

Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports.

WASHINGTON – Washington is sending an increasingly strong signal to Israel that it will not support or engage in military action against Iran, despite Tehran’s insistence on continuing its nuclear program, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

As WND recently reported, in what amounts to a final warning, Israel said it intends to take military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, since it believes Tehran is within a month of constructing a nuclear bomb.

Israeli officials say that they may not wait that long before undertaking military action.

While Iran has consistently denied its nuclear program is designed to build weapons, Israel bases its assessment on centrifuges that are producing enriched uranium at 20 percent. Israel says that provides a basis for further enrichment to more than 90 percent, which could fuel a nuclear weapon.

Thomas Pickering, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is close to the Obama administration, said that the United States hasn’t taken any options – meaning military action – off the table but intends to give a priority to pursuing a negotiated compromise over Iran’s nuclear program.

In a recent interview with Iran Review, Pickering said that there has been no change in the administration’s actions.

“I think that the Israelis have always been preoccupied with the notion that diplomacy won’t be able to do the job and that it won’t get anywhere,” Pickering said.

“Read “The Late Great State of Israel” and discover what threatens Israel today.

“And I think he (Obama) has always said that he is deeply opposed to an Iranian nuclear weapon,” Pickering said. “He is going to try diplomacy as a way to assure that this won’t happen.

“We are now engaged in that, but he has also always said he is not prepared to take other options off the table, but obviously he sees whether the diplomacy option can work. So, I don’t think anything has changed and is different.”

Read more at WND:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/u-s-signals-it-wont-be-backing-israel/#mm1KQ1DGdImGGDLJ.99

Read more about U.S. Signals It Won't Be Backing Israel - 'We Have To Do Everything We Can To Give The Diplomatic Solution A Chance To Operate'