You wrote:

“President Barack Obama met separately during the week with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao in an effort to obtain their agreement to threaten more stringent sanctions should Iran procrastinate during the talks.”

I would like to know more about these meetings you reference. Could you please provide sources/links?

And are you aware of Obama’s policy shift, scrapping the proposed missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic? Or Netanyahu’s secret trip to Moscow, only two weeks prior to the UN summit? It would seem that some pretty large bargaining chips must be played to get Russia and China to support the sanctions. The missile shield may be one for Russia. The dollar may be another, as both Russia and China have publicly sponsored a more multi-polar financial arrangement with a different world currency standard. Although these are just guesses on my part, I wouldn’t be surprised to see reversals in Moscow and Beijing on the sanctions, to accompany reversals by the US/UK/EU/Israel/NATO in some high-profile fashion. Of course none of these reversals will be related to the other. It’s all principles. Of course.

The way that Obama and company made their presentation at the G20 underlines an important facet of political reality, which is that back room deals and secret negotiations may constitute the method of making policy in the real world, but there must also be a theatrical side aimed at the people. Russia and China must justify policy change with regard to sanctions, just as the US must justify its continued support for sanctions, especially–ESPECIALLY–Obama. Yes, each one of these governments must justify their diplomatic script so as to not look irresponsible before their own people. Depending upon the quality of the press, which, in most cases, functions not unlike an official branch of the government–with the “free press” these dramatic fictions turn into justifications, with our so-called leaderships meeting our so-called democracies half-way, carrying a basket full of poison and bullshit.

You wrote:

“Moscow and Beijing do not subscribe to the negative depiction of Iran promoted by Washington, Tel Aviv, London, Paris and Bonn. They understand the situation to be far more complex than the U.S. and its allies publicly acknowledge.”

It seems to me that “publicly acknowledge” is the right choice of words, and should be emphasized. Moscow and Beijing now have vested interests in maintaining Iran as it is, whereas US/UK/EU/Israel have vested interests in what Iran is not. Either that, or Moscow and Beijing realize how important regime change in Iran is to the West, and hope to exploit that heightened sense of priority. Either way, the true difference between the two, between East and West, is not emotional (or even intellectual). As far as I can tell, the US-backed coalition of aggression is well aware that Iran MEETS the necessary requirements of the nuclear treaties they have signed. End of story. The IAEA knows this is true. Iran knows this is true. Obama and Brown and Sarkozy know this is true. Russia and China know this is true. But this isn’t about truth. This is about power.

It boils down to the bankruptcy of quality journalism, the absence of which is utilized, relied upon, to manufacture empty fictions in an impotent democracy. It boils down to finding a “secret” facility at the VERY MOMENT the world leaders were gathering to discuss non-proliferation; and only one week prior to sitting down with Iran to discuss power and leverage and control. The timing is no coincidence.

And regardless of how secure Iran may be, they can still be hurt by the building coalition surrounding them. The United States, backed by Britain and France, soon to be backed by Russia and China…they seem to be holding many of the cards.

Berlin is the capital of Germany and the seat of Government for almost 20 years. Bonn is now a small and relatively insignificant city south of Cologne, the regions largest city.

Apart from that, a good article. US leads the way with it’s paranoia and the usual suspects go along with it. Surprisingly, China seems to be much more reasonable in this affair, or perhaps not so surprisingly as they tend to, on a global scale, keep their noses out of other nation’s affairs as long as those other nations keep their noses out of their’s.

Peace on the agenda: Inas Said, the CEO of Galil Software. At Israeli company Galil Software, business isn’t the only thing on the agenda – so is peace. Founded in the mixed city of Nazareth in the Galilee where Israeli Jews and Arabs live side by side, the company is dedicated not only to making money, but to helping Israeli Arabs enter Israel’s competitive high-tech industry, a market that has eluded them for so long.

Rather than outsource high tech R&D to China and India, Galil Software prefers to look closer to home. Some 90 percent of the company’s engineers are Israeli-Arabs from local communities.

“So what?” You might think, but in Israel lack of trust, misunderstandings, and security issues, have created huge social and professional gaps between the Jewish Israeli population, and the other 20 percent of the country’s citizens, who are defined as Arab Israelis.

Israel may today be known as the second largest hotbed of innovation after Silicon Valley in California, but most of that success doesn’t reach the country’s Arab population who see little in the way of job offerings or support of new ventures.

Part of the problem is that in Israel referrals account for 80 percent of most new job placements, 10% higher than elsewhere around the world. For Arab engineers this is problematic, because many significant work relationships, particularly in the high-tech arena, are founded in Israel’s army culture.

With little or no experience of this, they find themselves shut out of job opportunities, despite the fact that so many Arabs graduate with top grades from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Spreading the high-tech fortune

Galil Software hopes to change all that. Rather than send R&D to China, where work can be done for a fraction of the cost, the company employs 40 engineers to carry out outsourcing work ranging from software development and integration, maintenance of legacy systems, testing & QA, system re-engineering, and more in Israel.

“Last year Israel exported 8,000 jobs in outsourcing,” Inas Said, the CEO of Galil Software, tells ISRAEL21c. “That’s $3 billion exported last year. I consider this a leak from our GDP.

“Here [in Israel] we have 2,500 Israeli Arab engineers,” he continues. “Of them less than 400 penetrate the Israeli high-tech bubble. There are more than 2,000 people out there sitting on the bench dreaming about how ‘I can be a part of it’.”

Work in Israel may be more expensive than in emerging economies like China, but the company hopes that the results will speak for themselves. For clients it’s a more comfortable and productive experience as language, pricing and culture is all familiar.

Social venturing for a change

“The Harvard’s of the world call this project social venturing or social entrepreneurship,” says Inis, who has been working for high-tech companies like Nokia, Ericsson, Stratus and ECI for the last 15 years.

“It’s about time we put money in something with a social byproduct. The entrepreneurial idea is based on business terms, but it has a huge social by-product that relates to the employment of people in the periphery.”

An Israeli Arab himself, Inis – who has worked in Germany and Boston – is all too familiar with global misconceptions about Israel and Israeli Arabs. Most people in the West think that Arabs live either in Gaza or the West Bank, he explains. They don’t realize there is a thriving Israeli Arab community, who share similar Western values such as democracy and a vision for peace.

But peace isn’t what necessarily interest clients who come to Galil Software. Since it opened last year, the company has been winning projects from some of the world’s biggest clients headquartered in Israel, like General Electric Medical.

“None of our customers decided on us because of the social aspects of what we do, but based on data and financials,” says Inis. “Guys, you should start thinking of Galil Software as an alternative. If we can succeed business-wise than the social impact will be huge.”

Peace-building with substance

Investors in the vision include Zeev Bregman (chairman), Jimmy Levy (founder), Elias Tanous, Itzik Danziger, Oren Zeev, Shai Reshef, Adam Parnas, Adi Pundak and Lior Berger.

Visiting the office of Galil Software can make for an interesting anthropological experience, agrees Inis, who finds himself supervising teams where an Arab employee manages a Jewish one – a rare occurrence in Israel where real-world practice hasn’t kept up with equal opportunity laws.

“The people we integrate become part of the middle class. This is important for the stability of the society,” says Inis noting that the $1 million venture is very close to breaking even. “This is not just a belief, it is a practice. This is the drive of our investors. It’s peacemaking with substance,” he says.

Inis is hoping the company’s business will extend outside of Israeli-based projects so that his team can service the R&D needs of American companies, based in the US, too. Supporting companies like Galil Software is Middle East peace-building in the making through deeds, and not just talking about it, Inis says.

“One should come and visit and see what happens when managers truly create a multi-cultural environment,” he tells ISRAEL21c. “Here, the language becomes different. It’s easy to get up in the morning and come to work when I see what’s happening here. I am definitely motivated.”

It is believed that this Israeli hypocrisywas not reported in the British MSM.

From the Irish Times. 19 September 2009

Israel spurns nuclear watchdog’s call to open atomic sites to inspection
MARK WEISS in Jerusalem

ISRAEL HAS rejected the call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and open up its atomic sites to international inspection.

The nuclear watchdog, meeting yesterday in Vienna, adopted a resolution expressing concern about “Israeli nuclear capabilities” and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue.

The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 abstentions. Russia and China, both permanent members of the UN security council, voted in favour.

But David Danieli, deputy director of Israel’s atomic energy commission, said Israel deplored the vote for singling it out while many of its neighbours remained hostile to its existence. “Israel will not co-operate in any matter with this resolution which is only aiming at reinforcing political hostilities and lines of division in the Middle East region,” he said.

Israel is one of only three countries along with India and Pakistan, which is not a signatory to the NPT. According to foreign media reports, the Jewish state is widely believed to possess several hundred nuclear warheads, as well as the means to deliver them.

Under a decades-old policy of “nuclear ambiguity” Israel has never confirmed nor denied processing atomic weapons, maintaining that the country “will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East”.

The vote was a setback not only for Israel but also for the US and other western backers of the Jewish state. They had lobbied for debate on the issue without a vote.

Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters the passage of the resolution was “very good news and a triumph for the oppressed nation of Palestine”.

Western states said it was unfair and counterproductive to isolate one member state. They said an IAEA resolution passed on Thursday, urging all Middle East nations to forswear atomic bombs, included Israel and made Friday’s proposal superfluous.

Arab nations said Israel had brought the resolution on itself by having never signed the 40-year-old NPT.

Before the vote, US ambassador Glyn Davies said the resolution was “redundant . . . Such an approach is highly politicised and does not address the complexities at play regarding crucial nuclear-related issues in the Middle East”.

This is the reason behind John Kennedy assassination according to Mordechai Vanunu who told the world that:

[On July 26, 2004 he made headlines in much of the free world press: “Vanunu: Israel behind JKF assassination.” Vanunu found out that Israel had got John F Kennedy assassinated because he had started coercing Israel into shedding light on their Dimona nuclear plant. It was not racist killing as the world was made to believe. Kennedy had sent troops to guard a college where black students were given admission.]

{In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.}

That was 1959 and different kind of American LEADER was in the White House. Nowadays, especially since the Clinton Administration the Zionist Jews in occupied Palestine, through their fifth column in Washington, have managed to run the foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa to expand their influence throughout the region by waging wars against Muslims through PROXY. Now, the new protocol of elders, ODID YINON ‘Israel’s strategy in the 1980s’ is used by their puppets in Washington and elsewhere, including OBAMA, to destabilize and partition the regional countries similar to what British Empire and French Empire did in the Middle East during the WWI with the cooperation of their AGENTS, the Zionist Jews in Salonika, to manufacture CRISIS and partition the Ottoman’s territory to get their dirty hands on Palestine where the Ottoman ruler, Abdulhamid, refused earlier to allow zionists under the leadership of Herzl to establish a ‘jewish state’ for the colonists who have NEITHER ANY RELATIONS with THE INDIGENOUS HEBREWS OR the land itself, PALESTINE.

How about Obama confront Israel on their still un-inspected WMD Facility that everyone in the world knows all about-except most Americans?

In 2005, 2006 interviews Mordechai Vanunu told me:

“The Israelis have 200 atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and Muslims of terrorism. The Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years. The Dimona has never been inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but all the Arab states have.

“Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now. The world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the Palestinians have lived under that terror regime for 40 years.

“It’s very sad that Hilary Clinton went to the Jewish Wailing Wall and forgot the real crying wall is the Palestinian wall; the apartheid wall, the wall is not for defense, but to keep this conflict permanent.

“Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew.”

How about Obama confront Peres on what he said in 1963?

Shimon Peres, then Israel’s Deputy Minister of Defense met with President John Kennedy, inside the White House.

Kennedy told Peres, “You know that we follow very closely the discovery of any nuclear development in the region. This could create a very dangerous situation. For this reason we monitor your nuclear effort. What could you tell me about this?”

Peres repLIED, “I can tell you most clearly that we will not introduce nuclear weapons to the region, and certainly we will not be the first.”

By September of 1986, Peres was convulsing over Vanunu, who had been employed as a lowly tech in his progeny; Israel’s clandestine underground nuclear weapons centre in the Negev called the Dimona.

Peres ordered the Mossad, to “Bring the son of a bitch back here.”

Peres ordered Vanunu’s kidnapping that included a clubbing, drugging and being flung upon an Israeli cargo boat back to Israel for a closed door trial that led to 18 years in jail-most all in solitary.

In 1985, before quitting the Dimona, Vanunu shot 56 photos of the top-secret labs and production processes that proved Israel had become a major nuclear power by stockpiling between 100 and 200 atomic bombs within the underground WMD facility where plutonium production, and secret nuclear weapons were assembled without any knowledge, debate or authorization from its own citizens.

How about Obama confronts what Vanunu told me in 2005:

“Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’

“Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.

“The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there, almost twenty years ago.

“Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors underground. In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.

“When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.

“Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.”

How about Obama recall his promise in Prague:

“As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act…When we fail to pursue peace, then it stays forever beyond our grasp. We know the path when we choose fear over hope. To denounce or shrug off a call for cooperation is an easy but also cowardly thing to do. That’s how wars begin. That’s where human progress ends…the voices of peace and progress must be raised together…Human destiny will be what we make of it…Words must mean something.”

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=bbjgDERSuiI& feature

For the record: “For the first time in 18 years, Israel, the United States and the Western powers were unsuccessful at preventing passage of a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The resolution, passed at the end of the annual general assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] in Vienna on Thursday, also demands that Israel open its nuclear reactor in Dimona to international inspectors. ” (Yossi Melman, Ha’aretz, 22 Sept. 2009)

If Israel refuses to comply, will the US, Britain, Canada, France, et al. call for strict sanctions against Israel as they have against Iran, or will they maintain the double standard? I think we know the answer.