HiddenMysteries: Israeli Officials Shocked U.S. Could Change the Rule of the Great Game

When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu returned to Israel empty handed from his mid-May Washington meetings with President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and Special Envoy George Mitchell, Lyndon LaRouche pointed out that the life-long British asset takes his orders from London, not Tel Aviv. He said, Netanyahu is key to the British plan to keep the entire region in a state of perpetual crisis and war.

In keeping with LaRouche's instruction that the only solution is to get really rough with Netanyahu, members of the U.S. administration have insisted that the Israelis immediately stop all settlement activity in preparation for a two-state solution. LaRouche also instructed that the U.S. explicitly call Bibi out on his British agentry, get him to change horses, and start taking his orders from Washington.

Now the British are trying to position themselves to deal with what they see as unacceptable American demands. A bevy of articles in the British and Israeli press portray Israeli officials as stunned by positions taken by the U.S. administration. The May 31 Sunday Times of London places the blame for the change in U.S. policy on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "The biggest shock to the Israelis came from Hillary Clinton who has made clear that the U.S. demands an immediate freeze on all building or expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank."

The Israeli daily Ha'aretz quoted one senior Israeli official complaining, "All of the understandings reached with the Bush administration are worth nothing." Ha'aretz reported, "The Israeli delegates were stunned by the uncompromising U.S. stance, and by statements from Mitchell and his staff that agreements reached with the Bush administration were unacceptable. An Israeli official privy to the talks said that the Americans took something that had been agreed on for many years and just stopped everything."

The latest British spin coming out of Israel is that the only reason the Obama Administration is standing fast is to propitiate the Arab world in advance of Obama's trips to Saudi Arabia and Egypt this week, which are aimed at emphasizing reconciliation with the Arab and Islamic world. But Israeli leaders have told EIR that key representatives of the military and security institutions and a majority of the Israeli population are in agreement with the position Clinton and Mitchell are taking. One Israeli analyst said most Israelis are relieved that the U.S. is standing up to Netanyahu and his coalition.

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Israeli Officials Shocked U.S. Could Change the Rule of the Great Game

Tuesday, June 02 2009 @ 03:17 AM CDT