Thursday, July 25, 2013

Elliott Abrams: Kerry's Mideast Talks 'Will Not Go Anywhere'

Elliott Abrams: Kerry's Mideast Talks 'Will Not Go Anywhere'

Thursday, 25 Jul 2013 
By Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter


Former presidential adviser Elliott Abrams tells Newsmax that
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks being arranged by Secretary of
State John Kerry "will not go anywhere" — and predicts Israel
could strike Iran in just six months.

Abrams also says he opposes imposing a no-fly zone in Syria,
and supports the administration's decision to suspend delivery
of fighter jets to Egypt, saying the Egyptians "need bread" more
than jets.

Abrams served in the State Department under President Ronald
Reagan and as special assistant to the president and deputy
national security adviser for global democracy strategy under
George W. Bush.
 He is now a senior fellow for Middle Eastern
Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.


In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, Abrams said of
Kerry's getting the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to restart
peace talks, "They’ve gone back to the table mostly as a favor
to Secretary Kerry and because they don’t want to be blamed.

"Frankly, these talks will not go anywhere. Israel's not going to
go back to those '67 [borders]. Talks may start, and I hope they
don't break down quickly, but I don't really see the basis for
getting to a peace agreement here. I don't know why Secretary
Kerry is optimistic about this."


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently suggested
that time is running out to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. Asked if
he foresees an Israeli military action in the near future, Abrams
responds: "I wouldn’t say the near future but the Israelis are
determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

"We're going to have some negotiations in August with this new
Iranian president and the Israelis realize time is running out
. So
if the United States cannot prevent Iran from moving steadily
forward toward a nuclear weapon, the Israelis will strike maybe
within the next six or nine months," Abrams says.

Abrams also said suspending delivery of four F-16 jets to Egypt
is "the right thing to do. For one thing, our law says when there's
a coup, when the military removes an elected president, we should
suspend aid. And there was a coup — the military in Egypt threw
out a president.

"We may not have liked him. He may have been unpopular. But
it was still a coup so we need to follow our law," Abrams says.
"And whatever the Egyptians need now, they need bread, they
need oil, they need economic reform, they don't need more
F-16s."

U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey says the Obama administration
is deliberating whether to use military power in Syria and to perhaps
impose a no-fly zone.

But Abrams says: "I'm not in favor of a no-fly zone."


"The amount of people and planes and money that it takes, and
the risks that we would run, are very great and it doesn't do what
you're trying to do," said Abrams. "You're trying to stop this kind
of terrorist activity by the Assad regime but a lot of the damage
is done by artillery, when they fire shells into neighborhoods and
apartment houses and homes. That wouldn't be touched at all by
a no-fly zone."

As to whether Dempsey should be reconfirmed for a second term
as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Abrams says: "I'm really
 concerned about Gen. Dempsey because the way he's handled
Syria has been really unacceptable.

"He suggests we have no options, everything we'll do will get us
into an Iraq-type war, will cost billions, there's nothing we can do.
Those are policy questions and the things he's been saying have
really tied the president's hands and been meant to tie his hands
and that's inappropriate for the military. The policy should come
from the civilians," Abrams says.

The National Security Agency’s phone records and data gathering
program, revealed recently by NSA contractor Edward Snowden,
has survived a legislative challenge in the House.

"I'm glad it has," Abrams says of the vote.

"I really side with those that think the invasion of privacy here
is minimal because they're not listening to the content of the
calls, they're just seeing the numbers. We need it if we want to
avoid another 9/11-type tragedy.


"We're all concerned about invasions of privacy but the invasion
here would be if some guy in a federal office were listening to your
phone calls. That is not happening. This is just computers gathering
the numbers and trying to see relationships among the numbers,"
Abrams says. "I don't think people should be so worried about this
and we have really good testimony from former counterterrorism
officials that this helps keep us safe."

President Barack Obama was critical of President Bush's policies
on terrorism, but some say his record in fighting terrorism reflects
the same approach he campaigned against. For example, he’s
expanded the drone strikes program as well as the phone records
and data program, and he hasn't closed Guantanamo Bay.

"It is accurate to say there is a [Bush-Obama] continuum because
the threats did not change on Inauguration Day in 2009, and what
President Obama has found out is that a lot of the things he said
during the campaign were just wrong," Abrams tells Newsmax.


"What he's finding out is that we need to do many of these things.
He has expanded the drone program and kept Guantanamo Bay open.
So this is a continuum that shows that some things are above
and beyond politics.
"

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This "NewsMax" "ARTICLE"???

IS 100% Israeli FEAR PORN

JOHN,

YOU CAN SEE THAT? WHY PROMOTE IT?

HEATHER HAS LEGALLY ENDED ALL THESE GAMES

LET THE TRUTH OUT!!!! & ONLY TRUTH

OR IT CONFUSES THE UNEDUCATED & MAKES IT

ALL TAKE LONGER!!!!

Anonymous said...

Abrams is a dual-citizen Israeli and member of PNAC, the group which planned and carried out 911 with the Mossad and Bush administration.
He's pictured here among the 911 conspirators:
http://www.whodidit.org/cocon.html

And Abrams (AND THE ENTIRE U.S.) should KNOW that there will NEVER be peace between Israel and Palestine because ISRAEL "has NEVER had any INTENTION of peace, despite the U.S. trying to broker one for 60 years now. Everyone in D.C. already KNOWS it's a total waste of time. What ISRAEL wants is the elimination of every Palestinian man, woman and child, so they can steal the REST of the Palestinian land. Already, Palestine is less than 1/6 what it was.

ISRAEL is "running" the jack-booted thugs at DHS, TSA, and FEMA, and they've placed their dual-citizen Israeli SPIES at the TOP LEVELS of virtually EVERY federal agency, all 65 policy Czars, all the think-tanks, the Presidential and Defense ADVISORS (no American "advisors" available???), the 2 Obama appointments to the Supreme Court, all the federal courts, the State Dept, and on and on. They OWN the dastardly Federal Reserve Bank and ALL the too-big-to-fail banks. They OWN all the PROPAGANDA NEWS, Hollywood, and the music industry. Their AIPAC "runs" Congress via BLACKMAIL and payoffs. Their zionists in congress (Feinstein, Schumer, the Levin brothers, Boxer, Lieberman, and psuedo-zionists McCain and Lindsey Graham) are very busy writing legislation to ABOLISH the constitution and Bill of Rights, and keep us in PERPETUAL WARS.

Anonymous said...

WHY blame ISRAEL? Israelis are just like 'our' people. They have to eat, sleep, pro-create and die just like we do. If 'Israel' could accomplish even 1/2 of what she is accused of, she still could not accomplish all she is being blamed for. WHY do you always blame 'Israel'? Her people are no more responsible for your grievances than the American people are for the grievous atrocities committed in the name of the people of united States, known worldwide as THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, whom the world's people believe are you and me when it is the criminal satanic cabal. To some extent the American people ARE to blame in that we DO NOTHING ABOUT THE MONSTERS WHO ARE MANIPULATING AND CONTROLLING US JUST LIKE THEY DO THE REST OF THE WORLD. Come on ............. put aside your 'Jew hatred' and get down to the core of who REALLY is responsible - it is NOT 'the Israeli people' or 'Israel.' ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATROCITIES THAT THIS CRIMINAL CABAL COMMITS IN THE NAME OF THE UNITED STATES WORLDWIDE DAY AND NIGHT 24 X 7? Neither are the Israelis responsible for the 'crimes' committed in their name by the monsters who control them and their nation. ALL the major nations are controlled by the same group of monsters. Let's put aside this childish thinking and separate personal hates from realities.

Anonymous said...

EXACTLY ANON940 !!!

TIME OF DOMINATION FINISHED

SUBMIT 4 DUTY

Anonymous said...

I "do" blame ISRAEL and the Mossad for the FASCIST "takeover" of our country. I finally awoke from the PROPAGANDA media mantra that "Israel is our friend." I've seen Jewish journalist writing articles like "Is the Constitution passe?" posing as regular Americans. I've SEEN the Jewish senators Feinstein, Schumer, the Levin brothers, Lieberman, and psuedo-Israeli war-mongers McCain and Lindsey Graham get on TV and INSIST we need to BOMB more and more middle-east countries surrounding Israel, using AMERICAN MONEY and AMERICAN BLOOD. I don't see any ISRAELI soldiers with their hands and legs blown off. Their officers work along with ours, and they know EXACTLY where our military vehicles will be and which soldiers will be IN them. It's THEIR sophisticated IEDs blowing off our soldiers arms and legs.

ISRAEL "trained" ALL our big-city cops to be the jack-booted THUGS they are today (bashing in the heads of protesters exercising their lst Amendment Rights.) It's Feinstein and Schumer trying to take our guns. It's the Levin brothers putting 30,000 drones in our skies. It's Lieberman, McCain and Lindsey Graham on every news station urgining more war.

ISRAEL would like nothing better than to REMOVE our constitution and Bill of Rights, and they are working VERY HARD for AIPAC in congress writing legislation TO DO JUST THAT!

ISRAEL IS A PARASITE and is NOT our friend. A large majority of Jews continue to spy for and give money to the Zionist war-mongers in ISRAEL.

If these videos don't WAKE YOU UP to the FACT that Israel is NOT a friend to the US, nothing will!

ISRAELI SNIPERS KILLING U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ (w/ cameras on guns)
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october042012/idf-sniper-iraq-tk.php

MOSSAD/ CIA MURDERED U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ
www.federaljack.com/mossad-murdered-u-s-troops-in-iraq/

4 MIN VIDEO - David Icke: ROTHSCHILDS, ADL & ANTI-SEMITISM EXPOSED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd8VkQZir7Y