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Last Time We Sent Alleged Russian Spies Home Along Came September 11 - So What's Next? CIA Operatives Release Iranian Scientist Shahram Amiri

June 29, 2010
MOSCOW - Russia angrily denounced the U.S. arrest of 10 alleged Russian spies as an unjustified throwback to the Cold War.

March 22, 2001 Russian anger over U.S. expulsions Moscow "deeply regrets" the decision by the United States to expel more than 40 diplomats. ... President Putin's foreign policy advisor, Sergie Prikhodko, described the move "as a relapse into the Cold War era." The six Russians already expelled from the U.S. worked at the Russian Embassy in Washington and are accused with direct contact with the FBI agent and alleged spy Hanssen.

March 16, 2001 Buzzy Krongard was named CEO of the CIA as the September 11 countdown entered the final stage. This stage included sending alleged Russian spies home. Logic dictates FBI agent Robert Hanssen is a true American hero sitting in jail today because he infiltrated the September 11 Rothschild Goldman conspiracy and had gathered whistle blowing material on coward creeps living in the USA who hate her, can't compete without rigging things for their corporate welfare, and make war on her.

Ten days after the US expelled 40 Russians March 22, 2001, an American spy plane is forced down in China. April 6-7, 2001: US, China Still in Dispute Over Spy Plane Collision and Crew Detention Chinese and US authorities continue to mediate the dispute over the crash of a US spy plane in Chinese territory (see March 31, 2001 and April 4-5, 2001). Why the US entered Chinese airspace an had one of our spy planes commandeered is multiple guess, but logic dictates it had to do with misleading the Chinese relative to September 11.

In September 2000 the US sub Memphis sank the Russian sub Kursk. Louie Freeh, another guy who hates America, makes war on her and is in on September 11 went to Russia to smooth over the friction from this act of war. In retrospect, the USS Memphis sinking the Kursk was an act of posturing in anticipation of Freeh, Goldman, Krongard, Rothschild's September 11 act of treason. The message to Russia with the sinking of the Kursk, back off, we got a scam to hustle and we don't want you blowing it.

July 14, 2010 US CIA operatives released Shahram Amiri , "an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted by CIA agents last year and taken to the US is on his way back to Tehran, Iran says." So why did the CIA release the Iranian? My first guess is that the CIA has some way of monitoring Shahram and they have sent him back to Iran to give the CIA a means of getting information on Iran. Whatever Goldman, Rothschilds and Company have planned that is so important they are sending Russians home must pertain to Iran. The CIA may need a man in Iran in the thick of things they can hone in on and listen to Iran's plans. Also we know the CIA has filled Shahram with information they want conveyed to Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, was born Jewish and logic dictates Ahmadinejad is working to promote zioni$t causes. Israel has a ring in Ahmadinejad's nose and lead him where Israel and the USA want him led. Since everyone in Iran knows Ahmadinejad is an operative for Israel and the USA, the CIA may have abducted Shahram to get information on what's going on with Ahmadinejad.

Goldman, Rothschilds and Company seem to use election years around Rosh Hashanah to lay some of their dirtiest deeds on the planet. So what will be this year's Rosh Hashanah's surprise? When there is a big military escalation my guess the US Navy will be in the middle of it.

Propaganda

The Washington Post is owned by the owners of the Federal Reserve, of which the Rothschilds and Rockefellers are probably its biggest owners. So when the Washington Post speaks, it spews Rothschild NWO propaganda. A recent Washington Post article Mexican drug cartels' newest weapon: Cold War-era grenades made in U.S. struck me as total and complete propaganda. The US Military combined with Blackwater type paramilitary operatives are in Mexico and they are responsible for Mexico's drug war deaths. The US operatives in Mexico are using US military grenades and this proves the US military is operating in Mexico. The propagandist came up with the lie that the grenades being used in Mexico come from the Cold War-era. This lie is being spread to try and hide the fact that the US military and Blackwater types are responsible for Mexico's drug violence. As usual, the Rothschilds control both sides of the violence in Mexico. The US military working with the Mexican government to stop Mexico drug trade which the Mexican drug trade just so happens is using US made grenades against the Mexican government. What this means is the Mexican drug trade is being financed and directed by the US military. Actually, controlling both sides of the war is exactly the process the US military uses in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan. Now the Rothschilds NWO is overthrowing Mexico, using the Mexican drug war as their beard, and this means the Rothschilds will start a civil war in the USA next. How the Rothschilds NWO controls both sides of the US civil war will be an interesting subject to explore.

Another Rothschilds NWO propaganda article State Dept Official: More Military Aid to Israel Needed to ‘Encourage Peace Talks’ is so blatant and absurd it needs to be mentioned. This article states the United States is "throwing more money into Israel’s already enormous annual military aid." to encourage peace talks." BS. The Rothschilds' run US is sending Israel military money in exchange for Israel prefecting its offensive weapons and to continue its warring ways. The Rothschilds are responsible for the Holocaust. There are several reasons the Rothschilds Holocausted Jewish people. Number one is money. Jewish money was transferred to Rothschilds in the killing of Jewish people. Another reason was the Rothschilds needed Jewish people to move to and establish present day Israel. Jewish people are used for Rothschilds schemes. The Rothschilds are transferring much of the Corporate Welfare Bailout money to Jewish people. These billions are in exchange for Israel attacking Iran and Russia and the start of WWIII. The Rothschilds know they will get these billions back as Jewish people are killed. The fact Rothschild propagandists are using the words "encourage peace talks" is particularly distrubing as it is the opposite of the truth. The bigger the lie, the bigger trouble - for Jewish people.

Another bit of recent Rothschilds NWO propaganda concerns the US responsibility for the bombing of an Iranian mosque. US-Backed Jundallah Bombs Iran Mosque, Killing at Least 28 . The general consensus is the US had the Iranian mosque bombed because the US is angry over Iranian scientist Shahram Amir leaving the USA. My guess is the Rothschilds' led USA is behind the mosque bombing but for a bigger reason than Shahram Amir. Actually the mosque bombing may be more important than the CIA Amir release. The USA blowing a Shiite mosque has really angered Iranians which of course the communi$t$' want, especially if the Rothschilds are planning a Rosh Hashanah surprise. My guess is the bad guys want and need Iran to attack Israel to justify the US and Israel nuking Iran and Russia. So the US Navy may provoke a naval confrontation and they need an irate Iran to make the scam work. The USA ordering the Shiite mosque bombed may be part of the Rothschilds' plan to set Iran up for a larger provocation.

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US Charges 11 as Russian Spies

Suspects Were Told to Become 'Americanized' to Function as Spies
by Jason Ditz, June 28, 2010

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/28/us-charges-11-as-russian-spies/
The United States has charged 11 people living on the East Coast as being Russian spies, dispatched on a multi-year mission to “become sufficiently Americanized” and then make contact with US policy makers so they could funnel information to Russia.

10 of the 11 have already been arrested, one is said to remain at large. They are charged with conspiracy, spying, and in at least one case, with having “established contact” with an unnamed but high-ranking national security official.
Officials said the conspiracy has been going on since the 1990s, though exactly what information they were able to acquire, beyond something related to a never created nuclear bunker-buster weapon, is unclear so far. The 11 face prison sentences from 5-20 years.
Many of the accused were married couples who were said to have been given “American sounding names” so that they would blend in well, One of them was duped by a fake Russian contact, actually an FBI agent, who was said to have given her $5,000 cash and told her to hide it. After hiding it, she was arrested.
The arrests unfolded last week, and officials say President Obama would have almost certainly been informed at the time. It is unclear, however, if the president discussed the incident with his Russian counterpart during their much vaunted “hamburger time” diplomacy.

Russia: US alleged spy arrests Cold War throwback

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100629/API/1006290635&tc=email_newsletter

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer
Published: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 7:36 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 7:36 a.m.
MOSCOW - Russia angrily denounced the U.S. arrest of 10 alleged Russian spies as an unjustified throwback to the Cold War, and senior lawmakers said some in the U.S. government may be trying to undercut President Barack Obama's warming relations with Moscow.

In this courtroom sketch, Anna Chapman, left, Vicky Pelaez, second from left, the defendant known as "Richard Murphy", center, the defendant known as "Cynthia Murphy", second from right, and the defendant known as "Juan Lazaro" are seen in Manhattan federal court in New York, Monday, June 28, 2010. The Murphys, Lazaro, and Pelaez are among the 10 people the FBI arrested Monday for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it was regrettable that the arrests came amid Obama's push for a "reset" in Russian-U.S. ties.
"These actions are unfounded and pursue unseemly goals," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "We don't understand the reasons which prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to make a public statement in the spirit of Cold War-era spy stories."
The arrests of what U.S. officials described as a deeply embedded Russian espionage network active for many years follow a string of other spy scandals that have roiled ties between Moscow and Washington since the end of the Cold War. The FBI bust - the biggest such case in years - would again put their relations to a test.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that U.S. authorities announced the arrest just days after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the United States.
"They haven't explained to us what this is about," Lavrov said at a news conference during a visit to Jerusalem. "I hope they will. The only thing I can say today is that the moment for doing that has been chosen with special elegance."
Medvedev met with Obama at the White House last week after the Russian leader visited high-tech firms in California's Silicon Valley. The two presidents went out for cheeseburgers, exchanged jokes and walked together in the park, underlining efforts to "reset" ties.

Russian anger over U.S. expulsions

March 22, 2001
Web posted at: 6:24 AM EST (1124 GMT)

April 6-7, 2001: US, China Still in Dispute Over Spy Plane Collision and Crew Detention

The EP-3 on an airstrip on Hainan Island. [Source: CNN]

Chinese and US authorities continue to mediate the dispute over the crash of a US spy plane in Chinese territory (see March 31, 2001 and April 4-5, 2001). John Warner (R-VA), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says the two sides are working on a written agreement on what happened, which would be approved by the leaders of both countries. Bush officials have been careful to call the detained US crew members “detainees”, but Senator Henry Hyde (R-IL) denounces the detention of the crew, calling them “hostages.” [CNN, 4/2001] Secretary of State Colin Powell is careful not to call the crew “hostages,” instead calling them “detainees[dq] who are being held [dq]incommunicado under circumstances which I don’t find acceptable.” [CNN, 4/4/2001] The pilot of the spy plane, Lieutenant Shane Osborn, later describes the interrogation tactics of the Chinese, which include verbal abuse and sleep deprivation. [PBS FRONTLINE, 10/18/2001] Hyde is joined by outraged neoconservatives such as Robert Tracinski, who writes on April 9, “Meanwhile, [the Chinese] are ‘holding’ the airplane’s crew; ‘holding’ is the term we use to avoid calling our airmen ‘prisoners’ or ‘hostages.’” Tracinski echoes the sentiments of other neoconservatives when he accuses the US of pandering to the Chinese over the incident, and ignoring the plight of jailed Chinese dissidents. [CAPITALISM MAGAZINE, 4/9/2001] On April 7, some details of the written agreement are revealed, with the US expressing further regrets over the death of the pilot of the Chinese fighter jet involved in the collision, but without the formal apology demanded by China.

14 July 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10626593

Iran nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri 'heading home'

Shahram Amiri arrived at Pakistan's embassy asking to be repatriated
An Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was abducted by CIA agents last year and taken to the US is on his way back to Tehran, Iran says.
Foreign Ministry officials, who claim they have evidence Shahram Amiri was kidnapped, told state media he had now left the US.
The US state department has insisted he was in the US of his own free will.
In June, Mr Amiri appeared in three videos giving conflicting stories about how he had arrived in the US.
He said in the first that he had been kidnapped by CIA and Saudi agents while on a pilgrimage.

Jon Leyne

Iran continues to declare that he was kidnapped by the Americans and they are clearly going to take full propaganda advantage of his return with Mr Amiri promising to give full details once he is back in his home country
Who wins propaganda war?
In the second message he said he had gone to the US to improve his education and was living freely in Arizona.
In the third, he claimed to have escaped from US custody.
On Monday evening Mr Amiri arrived at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington, which handles Iranian affairs in the US capital, and asked to be repatriated.
Since then, he has renewed his allegations that he was kidnapped, giving more details to the Iranian media.
But in the US, unnamed officials and security sources are claiming that Mr Amiri defected and was put into a kind of witness-protection programme.
Later, he apparently became concerned for family members he had left behind, had a breakdown and decided to return to Iran, US reports claim.
'Free to go'
Iranian media quoted foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying Mr Amiri would travel back to Iran though a "third country"
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Mr Amiri has been in the United States of his own free will and he is free to go”

Shahram Amiri
"With the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran and effective co-operation of Pakistan's embassy in Washington, a few minutes ago Shahram Amiri left American soil and is heading back to Iran," Mr Mehmanparast said.
Another foreign ministry spokesman later told the Associated Press that the scientist would make a stopover in Qatar. There are no direct flights from the US to Iran.
In June, Iran claimed it had handed evidence to the US that the scientist had been abducted.
The US had repeatedly said it had no information about Mr Amiri.
However, on Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged publicly for the first time that the scientist was in the US - but she flatly denied allegations of abduction.
"Mr Amiri has been in the United States of his own free will and he is free to go," she said.
Iranian media reports say Mr Amiri worked as a researcher at a university in Tehran, but some reports say he worked for the country's atomic energy organisation and had in-depth knowledge of its controversial nuclear programme.

Mexican drug cartels' newest weapon: Cold War-era grenades made in U.S.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071606252.html

By Nick Miroff and William Booth
Saturday, July 17, 2010; A01

MEXICO CITY -- Grenades made in the United States and sent to Central America during the Cold War have resurfaced as terrifying new weapons in almost weekly attacks by Mexican drug cartels.
Sent a generation ago to battle communist revolutionaries in the jungles of Central America, U.S. grenades are being diverted from dusty old armories and sold to criminal mafias, who are using them to destabilize the Mexican government and terrorize civilians, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials.
The redeployment of U.S.-made grenades by Mexican drug lords underscores the increasingly intertwined nature of the conflict, as President Felipe Calderón sends his soldiers out to confront gangs armed with a deadly combination of brand-new military-style assault rifles purchased in the United States and munitions left over from the Cold War.
Grenades have killed a relatively small number of the 25,000 people who have died since Calderón launched his U.S.-backed offensive against the cartels. But the grenades pack a far greater psychological punch than the ubiquitous AK-47s and AR-15 rifles -- they can overwhelm and intimidate outgunned soldiers and police while reminding ordinary Mexicans that the country is literally at war.
There have been more than 72 grenade attacks in Mexico in the last year, including spectacular assaults on police convoys and public officials. Mexican forces have seized more than 5,800 live grenades since 2007, a small fraction of a vast armory maintained by the drug cartels, officials said.
According to the Mexican attorney general's office, there have been 101 grenade attacks against government buildings in the past 3 1/2 years, information now made public for the first time.
To fight back, U.S. experts in grenades and other explosives are now working side by side with Mexican counterparts. On Thursday, assailants detonated a car bomb in downtown Ciudad Juarez, killing two federal police officers and an emergency medical technician and wounding seven.
The majority of grenades have been traced back to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, according to investigations by agents at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and their Mexican counterparts. ATF has also found that almost 90 percent of the grenades confiscated and traced in Mexico are more than 20 years old.
The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush sent 300,000 hand grenades to friendly regimes in Central America to fight leftist insurgents in the civil wars of the 1980s and early 1990s, according to declassified military data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Federation of American Scientists.
Not all grenades found in Mexico are American-made. Many are of Asian or Soviet and Eastern European manufacture, ATF officials said, probably given to leftist insurgents by Cuba and Nicaragua's Sandinistas.
One of the most common hand grenades found in Mexico is the M67, the workhorse explosive manufactured in the United States for American soldiers and for sale or transfer to foreign militaries. Some 266,000 M67 grenades went to El Salvador alone between 1980 and 1993, during the civil war there.
Now selling for $100 to $500 apiece on the black market, grenades have exploded in practically every region of Mexico in recent years.
In the past year, assailants have rolled grenades into brothels in the border city of Reynosa. They have hurled one at the U.S. consulate in nearby Nuevo Laredo. They have launched them at a military barracks in Tampico and at a television station in Nayarit state.
In the state of Durango, 10 students, most teenagers but some as young as 8, were ripped apart on their way to receive government scholarships in March when attacked with grenades at a cartel checkpoint. The blasts tore a gaping hole in the side of their pickup, peeling back the door panels as if it were a soda can.
"They are a way to spread fear and terror," said Paulino Jiménez Hidalgo, a retired Mexican army general. "And they're a way to gain the upper hand over the authorities."
Grenade attacks began in 2007 in response to the expanded role of the military in anti-narcotics enforcement and the rise of the Zetas, the fearsome cartel founded by former special-forces soldiers, according to Martín Barrón Cruz, an expert in arms and security at Mexico's National Institute of Criminal Sciences, a government agency.
"It's an arms race," Barrón said.
Demand for military hardware is soaring, he said, citing recent seizures of .50-caliber rifles, mortars and anti-personnel mines.
The criminal organizations are demonstrating a growing tactical knowledge about how to use grenades in close-quarters combat.
"They're a good way to cover your retreat or to initiate an attack," said Anna Gilmour, a drug-war expert at IHS Jane's, a global security consulting firm. "You can use them as a means of spreading confusion."
As one senior U.S. law enforcement official in Mexico put it, grenades are "a lazy man's killing weapon" because they don't require good aim.
"You don't have to be able to hit a bull's-eye. You just roll it out," he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of security protocols.
Frequently, grenades are left unexploded at attack scenes. U.S. officials attribute this to operator error rather than the age of the munitions, since grenades can last for decades if stored properly. While some seized grenades are covered in rust or dirt, others are in mint condition, suggesting they may have been removed recently from military stores.
ATF and its Mexican counterparts consider information about the source country and specific make of grenades classified. Federal police in Mexico are now offering $200 -- about six weeks' pay at minimum wage in Mexico -- as a reward for every grenade turned over to authorities.
U.S. investigators and independent experts suspect that few military grenades have entered Mexico directly across the northern border from the United States.
"There might be a few thefts from U.S. military bases, but there has been little evidence that grenades in Mexico are being smuggled from the United States," said Colby Goodman, an arms trafficking expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Interviews with military, police and U.S. law enforcement agents in Central America suggest authorities are increasingly concerned about preventing thefts from grenade stockpiles but are virtually powerless to prevent the spread of weapons that are already loose.
"Almost all of the attacks we've seen have been with M67s," said Howard Cotto, a chief investigator with El Salvador's National Civil Police. "There are so many of them floating around here."
Salvadoran police have seized 390 M67s since 2005.
Black-market grenades are so easy to obtain in El Salvador that street gangs routinely use them as tools of extortion, to menace business owners and bus drivers. Concern that grenades could leak out of army garrisons prompted the Salvadoran military to consolidate its abundant supply in two high-security facilities last year, the Salvadoran defense minister, Gen. David Munguía Payés, said in an interview. The U.S. government is planning to send a threat-assessment team to the country to help secure its arsenals.
"Since 2009 we haven't registered any missing grenades," Munguía Payés said. "But we know that there are grenades out there on the black market."
In Guatemala, aging American-, Israeli- and Asian-made grenades have been seeping out of the country's Mariscal Zavala armory for years, according to military officials and security experts.
The military official who oversees the arsenals, Col. Luis Francisco Juárez, said safeguards are now in place to ensure that no weapons are illegally removed. But Guatemalan court records show that when his predecessor, Col. Carlos Toledo, reported to his superiors last year that 500 weapons were missing, he was stripped of his command and subjected to death threats.
Just two months after Toledo reported the missing weapons, arms diverted from the Guatemalan military turned up at a bloody scene where five police officers were killed while allegedly trying to steal 370 kilos of cocaine from a cartel safe house. A huge arms cache was uncovered at the site, including more than 550 40mm projectile grenades, many of which had lot numbers matching those in the Guatemalan armory and which appeared to be manufactured in the United States, according to military and legal sources.
In another large seizure, 500 grenades were recovered in March 2009 at a site in northern Guatemala that authorities described as a training camp run by the Mexican Zeta drug organization.
An investigation by Guatemala's El Periódico newspaper found that as many as 27,000 military weapons, including an unknown number of grenades, may have been illegally sold or stolen in recent years.
Miroff reported from El Salvador and Guatemala.

State Dept Official: More Military Aid to Israel Needed to ‘Encourage Peace Talks’

Hopes Additional Aid Might Coax Israel Into Accepting Peace Deal
by Jason Ditz, July 16, 2010

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/16/state-dept-official-more-military-aid-to-israel-needed-to-encourage-peace-talks/

Weeks after reports that the US was growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unwillingness to take the indirect peace talks seriously and reluctance to even address core issues, Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro announced a plan to “encourage” Israel to move forward with the process.

The answer is, as it ever is with US diplomatic efforts, throwing more money at the problem. Or in this case, throwing more money into Israel’s already enormous annual military aid.
Shapiro said the administration hoped “that the expanded commitment to Israel’s security will advance the peace process.” The effort would be above and beyond the roughly $3 billion sent to Israel annually for military aid.
Of course the aid in question is largely already approved, the administration already pushed through Congress in late May a measure to send an additional $205 million in emergency aid to pay for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile project.
The money will fund materially the entire project for the Israeli military. President Obama announced the aid after Israel’s military decided to scrap the project, saying it cost too much and was of comparatively little utility.
With the Obama Administration already having pledged absolute commitment to Israel in all ways, including shielding their nuclear weapons program from their own support for a nuclear-free Middle East and shielding them from international scrutiny for attacks on humanitarian aid ships, it is hard to imagine that Israel doubts the US commitment to its security or that the additional funds will change anything about that perception. Rather it seems another excuse to throw money at an impractical weapons project under the guise of support for peace.

US-Backed Jundallah Bombs Iran Mosque, Killing at Least 28

Revolutionary Guard Members Among the Slain
by Jason Ditz, July 15, 2010

http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/10547

At least 28 people were killed and 169 others wounded this evening in a pair of suicide attacks against a major Shi’ite mosque in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Iran’s Sistan-Balochistan Province. The death toll is said to have included a number of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Jundallah, a militant separatist group that at one point was tied with al-Qaeda, but has more recently been linked with the US government, claimed credit for the attack, saying it was revenge for the execution of their leader, Abdulmalek Rigi, last month.
Iran was quick to blame the US for the latest attack, since US officials have repeatedly acknowledged providing “support and encouragement” to the group, which has been launching terror attacks in Iran and Pakistan for years.
The attack is eerily similar to a previous strike in Zahedan in May 2009, which also involved suicide bombers attacking worshipers at the Shi’ite mosque in the largely Sunni province. Jundallah claimed that attack as well.

THURSDAY, JUL 15, 2010 11:55 ET
Despite "rift," U.S., Israel talking Iran attack
We keep hearing that the governments of both countries are at odds. But apparently not when it comes to this issue
BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 6, 2010.
To hear most media tell it before last week's meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, the only relevant question was whether a deep U.S.-Israel "rift" was temporary or permanent.
But the idea of some kind of substantive schism between the two countries has always been a bit comical. As Bloomberg put it in an underappreciated piece last month, "Obama's Israel Policy Showing No Difference With Clinton-Bush."
The latest evidence of the non-rift comes in this new Time story in which Joe Klein passes on spin he's getting from unnamed U.S. and Israeli government sources about the chances of a U.S. attack on Iran supposedly rising (emphasis ours):

 Other intelligence sources say that the U.S. Army's Central Command, which is in charge of organizing military operations in the Middle East, has made some real progress in planning targeted air strikes -- aided, in large part, by the vastly improved human-intelligence operations in the region. "There really wasn't a military option a year ago," an Israeli military source told me. "But they've gotten serious about the planning, and the option is real now." Israel has been brought into the planning process, I'm told, because U.S. officials are frightened by the possibility that the right-wing Netanyahu government might go rogue and try to whack the Iranians on its own.

Hard to know what to make of this, especially as Klein opts not to let us in on which side is feeding him this information. But high-level military cooperation is a useful reminder that talk of a "rift" between the Obama and Netanyahu is pretty much bunk.