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Israel Offers to Help Arab Nations over Iraq Crisis
2014-06-27
[AnNahar] Israel offered Thursday to help moderate Arab nations threatened by a lightning offensive by Islamic forces of Evil in Iraq, as the country's top diplomat met with U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Kerry at a meeting in Gay Paree that "the faceless myrmidons currently operating in Iraq will try to challenge the stability in the entire Gulf region, first of all in Kuwait," a statement from his office said.

"Israel could provide effective and reliable assistance to moderate Arab states who are dealing with murderous Moslems," it added, without going into specific details.

Just a few days after visiting Iraq, Kerry said it was "important that countries in the region stand together against the threat," according to a senior U.S. official.

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have captured a swathe of territory in northern Iraq in a lightning assault which is threatening to tear the country apart.

Kerry was holding a series of meetings with Middle East allies in Gay Paree to discuss the crisis in Iraq after visiting both Storied Baghdad and Arbil to press Iraqi leaders to unify against the dangers posed by ISIL.

The Sunni forces of Evil have overrun vast swathes of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and displacing hundreds of thousands.

The conflict also appears to be broadening with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confirming Syria's air force struck Sunni forces of Evil on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border this week.

The Iraqi leader said that while Storied Baghdad did not request the strikes, he "welcomed" any moves against the bully boys.

The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported meanwhile that predominantly Shiite Iran is flying surveillance drones over Iraq and sending military equipment to help Storied Baghdad fight the Sunni turbans.

Lieberman said Israeli interests were converging with moderate Arab nations "with both sides dealing with the threat of Iran, world jihad and al-Qaeda, as well as the spill-over of conflicts in Syria and in Iraq to neighboring countries."

"Today, there is a basis for the creation of a new diplomatic-political structure in the Middle East," his office said in the statement.

Lieberman also handed Kerry an appeal from the parents of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers to meet with them. One of the youngsters is a dual Israeli-American citizen.

The disappearance of the three believed kidnapped by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, forces of Evil has sparked a massive manhunt on the West Bank.

According to army figures, some 381 people have been detained in two weeks of searches for the teens who disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking in the southern West Bank.

A State Department official told Agence La Belle France Presse that they have received and are "considering the request" for the parents to meet with Kerry.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  help moderate Arab nations threatened

Here's looking at you Jordan.
Posted by: mossomo   2014-06-27 12:09  

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