US Senator Coleman: 'If action is going to be taken, it's not going to be Israel alone'

[Purveyor]

Source: Jerusalem Post

Oct 19, 2007 0:38 \


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"If action is going to be taken, it's not going to be Israel alone," Coleman (R-Minnesota), the ranking member of the Senate foreign relation's Near East subcommittee. "The reality is that Israel would have to have approvals and authorities. If something is taken, the United States is going to be part of that. We have to understand that. There is no saying, 'Israel did it.'

Coleman, noting that he was speaking as one senator and not for the entire US government, talked to the Post after meeting with visiting Knesset members. He also said that while the delegation of MKs - which included Likud's Yuval Steinitz and Meretz's Yossi Beilin - presented a united front, no such unanimity could be found on the American side.

"I think there's a consensus here as to the nature of the threat. I don't think there's consensus yet as to the span of time with which we have to address it," said Coleman, one of only two Jewish Republican senators.

Steinitz said that a major focus of the visit of the MKs was to express the sense of urgency Israel feels about Iran. He proposed giving Iran an ultimatum to comply by UN demands or face military action.


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[WCGreen]

1. Go get 'em Norm...

Pull yourself our of the Salons of DC and sign-up to fight those dirty bastards...

If not, shut the fuck up...

[FarCenter]

2. Senator Coleman, Likud Party Senator from Minnesota

Same party as Lieberman from CT.

[Megahurtz]

3. Fuck That!

Israel has their own Nukes that the U.S. gave them, so let them fight their own battles
and make Idiots out of themselves. Then maybe they could go to the Hague along
with BushInc. and finally maybe STFU.

[Psephos]

6. Actually, the US did not give Israel any nukes, and wouldn't help develop them, either

It was France, not the US, who helped Israel with its nukes in exchange for support during the Suez War.

The US was pissed off upon discovering that the Israelis had developed their own by 1968, at the nuclear facility at Dimona.

In the mid-50s, Israel was fearful over Nasser's rise in Egypt, while France was dealing with an Arab insurrection in its colony, Algeria. It was a compact of mutual interests. Israel agreed to team up with France and Britain in the military action against Nasser as retribution for nationalizing the Suez Canal, a grave matter to the Europeans.

In September 1956, Shimon Peres, who was at that time an Israeli Defense Ministry official, accompanied Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, to a meeting with French and British officials about Suez. The Israelis let the British party leave the room, and then approached the French about nuclear matters.

About this meeting, Peres has said: "In Sevres, when it was all over, I told Ben-Gurion, 'There's one piece of unfinished business: the nuclear issue. Before you agree, let me finish that.' Of the four countries which at that time had a nuclear capacity - the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France - only France was willing to help us."

[rodeodance]

4. most Sens will say the same. Even Fiengold---when Israel was pounding Lebenon said

fine. no complaints from him.

[Beerboy]

5. Coleman is one of my U.S. Senators, the Repug.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar will soon be Minnesota's senior U.S. Senator!
If I'm not mistaken, I think the Jpost is mistaken, i.e. Coleman can't be the ranking member of Senate Foreign Relation's 'Near-East' Sub-committee... he's in the Rethug-Minority caucus. I could be wrong. Do U.S. Senate rules allow the senior Senator of the Minority Party to be the Ranking member of the sub-committee? :shrug:

[BenDavid]

7. I hate it when Coleman speaks and the press

reports as if he is speaking for all Jewish folk.....

Ben David

[lovuian]

8. We are going to have WWIII to protect Israel

and I guess thats whats going to play right into the religious war

These are Dark times ahead

This war won't solve anything except decrease the world populations and thats really the point