Israel Matzav

Who says the 'Palis' are NOT a nuisance?

So if Israel and the Arab countries agree that the 'Palestinians' are just a nuisance, who other than Obama and the American and Israeli Left believes that the 'Palestinian people' need a reichlet? Why the Europeans of course!

A senior adviser to German chancellor Angela Merkel urged the U.S. to water down its opposition to the U.N.’s anti-Israel “Goldstone Report” in order to force Israel to freeze settlement construction, according to a cable from the U.S. embassy in Berlin published by WikiLeaks.

The dispatch from Merkel’s point man on the Middle East, Christoph Heusgen, ought to raise giant question marks over Merkel’s oft-repeated declarations to the U.S. Congress and the Israeli Knesset that the Jewish state’s security is “non-negotiable” for Germany.

The embassy said in the November 2009 cable: “[National Security Adviser Christoph] Heusgen said that Germany ‘perceives this differently’ and thought Netanyahu needed ‘to do more’ in order to bring the Palestinians to the negotiating table. With Palestinians in East Jerusalem getting notices from Israeli authorities that their houses will be destroyed, it would be ‘suicide’ for President Abbas to move under the current circumstances.

“Heusgen said he could not fathom why Netanyahu did not understand this. He suggested pressuring Netanyahu by linking favorable UNSC [Security Council] treatment of the Goldstone Report to Israel committing to a complete stop in settlement activity.”

Heusgen conveyed his remarks in a November 10 meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon and the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Philip Murphy.

Benjamin Weinthal reports that Gordon and Murphy did not completely cave in to Heusgen, and that Heusgen is Germany's Chas Freeman.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Angela Merkel, Germany, Goldstone Report

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:38 AM