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IRAN BLOWS UP IN OBAMA’S FACE

June 25/09. Barack Obama’s key policy of seeking dialogue with Iran’s leaders, to keep a lid on Iran’s nuclear program is looking more and more ridiculous.

After a week of soft-peddaling on the brutal crackdown on Iran’s aggrieved reform-minded protestors, Obama finally said he was "appalled and outraged" at the violence with which the demonstrations have been repressed.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed election victory has prompted the biggest crisis in the 30-year history of the Islamic Republic, hit out at President Obama.

Ahmadinejad accused Obama of following his predecessor's lead. "Mr Obama made a mistake to say those things. Our question is why he fell into this trap, and said things that previously (former President) Bush used to say," Ahmadinejad said.

Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela who is an ally of Mr Ahmadinejad, added: "People are in the streets, some are dead, they have snipers, and behind this is the CIA, the imperial hand of European countries and the United States."

U.S. HITS BACK AT AHMADINEJAD CLAIM

Tehran's leadership has accused foreign governments of fuelling the protests.

OBAMA’S PLANS FOR PA STATE STUCK IN NEUTRAL

June 24/09. The deep division between Israeli and American views on the future of Judea and Samaria became more evident yesterday when the office of PM Binyamin Netanyahu announced the cancellation of a planned meeting with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, in France. The Prime Minister, on an official visit to Italy and France, was scheduled to meet with Mitchell on Thursday in Paris.

The American envoy instead will now meet with Defense Minister Ehud Barak during Barak's trip to Washington next week.

The official explanation for the cancellation was the need to “clarify issues.” 

Netanyahu directly Barack Obama’s stand against the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria in his recent speech. He voiced determination to continue building in existing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, but hoped to dampen the American response by expressing willingness to accept a "demilitarized Palestinian state." 

Instead, he has been met by more extreme resistance from the Obama administration. A U.S. State Department spokesman told reporters on Monday that opposition to building for Jews in Judea and Samaria includes established Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, where thousands of housing units are under construction.

These areas of Jerusalem, in which more than 250,000 people live, were established up to 40 years ago after the entire city was restored to Jewish sovereignty during the Six-Day War. The neighborhoods were officially annexed to Jerusalem nearly 30 years ago.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has warned in recent days that making a loud fuss over the “settlements” clouds what he considers major issues towards a peace agreement between Israel and the PA.

Even if Washington wants to find a compromise solution, President Obama’s announcement in his speech in Cairo earlier this month has left the Arab world assuming that the U.S. is in its corner.

The Arab world has made it clear that it will not consider any compromise in the so called Arab Peace Plan, which calls upon Israel to surrender all of Judea and Samaria, including the Old City and Jerusalem neighborhoods, such as French Hill, Ramot and Gilo.

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