How Peres duped Israel again

Take this with a grain of salt, because it is the Sunday Times of London, but Shimon Peres, who negotiated the Oslo Accords behind Yitzchak Rabin's back, played a major role in the current 'negotiations' getting started, apparently behind Binyamin Netanyahu's back. This was behind a paywall, but I got it by email.

SECRET talks in the Jordanian capital, Amman, earlier this year between Shimon

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

I'm passing on verbatim an email I just received from Dan Friedman in New York. Dan has added his own comment at the top.

[The notion that “American pressure” motivates Israel’s many strategic blunders may have held water 25 years ago, but now it’s just a convenient excuse that serves the purpose of various parties in Israel and the Diaspora, on the Left and on the Right. Today, “Friends of

Obama threatened retaliation against Israeli action on Iran if Israel didn't release 'Palestinians'?

In an earlier post, I discussed (and cast doubt on) the claim that Israel traded 104 terrorist murderers for an American attack on Iran. But what if what happened was that Obama and Kerry told Netanyahu that if we didn't release the 104 terrorist murderers, and return to the table with the 'Palestinians,' when and if Israel bombed Iran, the US would leave us to face the consequences alone?

Obama agreed to bomb Iran in return for terrorist release?

Get a load of this:


Israel's decision to release 104 Palestinian security prisoners motivated by secret "strategic considerations" - @Bogie_Yaalon in speech
— Dan Williams (@DanWilliams) July 29, 2013
The obvious reference is to Iran.

Amir Mizroch makes that explicit.


.@DanWilliams @Bogie_Yaalon I have sneaky suspicion Israel agreed to free Palestinian terrorists+ renew talks in return for