I smell day-old seafood:
Israeli officials played down a report in an Israeli newspaper on Monday that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Israel-Iran war.Israel's most widely-read newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, said Washington had approached Tehran through two unidentified European countries to convey the message that the United States would not be dragged into hostilities if Israel attacked Iran over its nuclear program.
The paper said the United States told Iran it expected Tehran in return to refrain from retaliating against U.S. interests, including its military in the Gulf. The report did not disclose any source for its information.
An Israeli official, who asked not to be identified, described the report as illogical.
"It doesn't make sense," the official said. "There would be no need to make such a promise to the Iranians because they realize the last thing they need is to attack U.S. targets and draw massive U.S. bombing raids."
True, but it does make sense for someone in neocon policy circles to leak a phony story that pushes the Obama-as-appeaser meme on the eve of the Democrats' convention in order to rile up all their rich Jewish donors against the Kenyan-in-Chief. It won't work, of course, but that's never stopped people who've been wrong about everything in the past from continuing to pull off stupid shit like this to score political points.
Of course, there's always the possibility that the story is true, in which case, good, keep it up!
---Vitelius
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