Editorial note: During the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, the then US Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice wrongly predicted the outcome by announcing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"

Four years later, her successor Hillary Clinton's threats against Lebanon indicate that the next step of the "New Middle East" project will involve a war on multiple fronts: Iran, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

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Clinton to Lebanon: US cannot prevent Israel from attacking Lebanon if Hizbullah continues to arm itself

[propaganda alert]


1) Clinton to Lebanon: US cannot prevent Israel from attacking Lebanon if Hizbullah continues to arm itself (1 March 2010)

from the archives:

2) Clinton threatens to attack Iran ‘the way that we did’ Iraq (7 June 2009)

3) Obama: The Israelis don’t need to convince me of their ultimatum to Iran (2 June 2009)

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 http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/9B298F33B4F29B0FC22576D900360095?OpenDocument


excerpts from: Clinton to Berri: Israel Cannot be Controlled as long as Hizbullah Continues to Arm Itself

Naharnet, 1 March 2010

“Washington cannot make an effort to prevent Israel from making any aggression if Hizbullah does not stop replenishing its arsenal,”


[US Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton, letter addressed to Lebanon’s speaker of the parliament Nabih Berri]

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 http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7775502


excerpts from: Transcript: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on ‘This Week’

transcript of ABC-TV’s ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ programme on 7 June 2009

ABC News website, 7 June 2009

[emphasis added]


CLINTON: If […] [the Iranians] believe that the United States might attack them the way that we did attack Iraq, for example…

ABC: Before they attack, as a first strike?

CLINTON: That’s right, as a first strike, or they might have some other enemy [i.e. Israel] that would do that to them, part of what we have to make clear to the Iranians is that their pursuit of nuclear weapons will actually trigger greater insecurity, because […]

ABC: Because Israel will [pre-emptively] strike before they can finish?

CLINTON: Well, but not only that. I mean, other countries, other Arab countries are deeply concerned about Iran having nuclear weapons. […]

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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/06/090602_obama_transcript.shtml


excerpt from: Obama interview: the transcript

BBC World Service website, 2 June 2009

[emphasis added]


BBC: What the Israelis say is that they have managed to persuade you at least to concentrate on Iran and to give what, behind the scenes, they’re calling it a bit of an ultimatum to the Iranians: By the end of this year there must be some real progress.

OBAMA: Well, the only thing I’d correct on that is I don’t think the Israelis needed to convince me of that, since I’ve been talking about it for the last two years.


[US President Barack Obama, interview with Justin Webb of BBC World News, 1 June 2009]

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related link:


CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (March 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/csis-report-turkey-would-be-the-optimum-route-for-a-possible-israeli-attack-on-iran/

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