Keeping Score on Obama vs. Netanyahu
NYT / MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER
23-May-2009 (3 comments)

Mr. Netanyahu got his timetable. “We’re not going to have talks
forever,” Mr. Obama said of Iran, assuring Mr. Netanyahu that he
expected to know by the end of the year whether Iran was making “a
good-faith effort to resolve differences.”

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capt_ayhab

NYT Falsifies Obama-Netanyahu Meeting AGAIN !

by capt_ayhab on Sat May 23, 2009 09:07 AM PDT

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My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction and whether the parties involved are making progress and that there's a good faith effort to resolve differences. That doesn't mean every issue would be resolved by that point, but it does mean that we'll probably be able to gauge and do a reassessment by the end of the year of this approach.

"Shortly after," "fairly good sense," "the right direction," "good faith effort," "probably," "by the end of the year." This was a language chosen deliberately to cool the fever of Netanyahu and his far-right War Coalition in Israel. But Stolberg, writing for the Times, converts these hedged and vague suggestions into a revelation that Obama for the first time seemed "willing to set even a general timetable for progress in talks with Iran."



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Ostaad

by capt_ayhab on Sat May 23, 2009 02:02 PM PDT

There was No timetable.

The whole point is that NYT falsified the entire meeting.

 

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Ostaad

Captian, I don't think Obama set...

by Ostaad on Sat May 23, 2009 01:59 PM PDT

that "timetable" only to satisfy the Yabu and his gang. There are a lot of Americans in position of power that don't look upon these negotiations favorably for nationalistic and ideological reasons.

Obama's target audience were those Americans not Yabu, whose country is in dire economic conditions and can't survive without picking the pockets of the hapless American taxpayers in the form of US military and cash hand-outs.


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