Back door mideast trips to trip up U.S. policy and plans to marginalize Israel

If these trips and talks work out as
outlined here, Obama will have to
be faced with a failed policy in the
Middle East. When one works from
a postion of weakness, apology and
appeasement, these results are not
surprising. The Obama 'plan' is rapidly
losing what little chance it had and
Israel is getting cornered. I wish Israel
would just nuke the Iranian regime,
nuclear facilities and be done with it.

Mubarak on urgent trip to Gulf about Iran's reconciliation move

DEBKAfile Special Report
December 22, 2009, 8:28 PM (GMT+02:00)

While Israel was wholly caught up in the next stage of a deal with Hamas for trading its soldier Gilead Shalit for several hundred jailed Palestinians, the Iran-Syrian axis pounced with swift moves to mend its fences with moderate Arab rulers. Sunday, Dec. 20, the powerful Iranian speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, arrived in Cairo and was received at once by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak for a conversation lasting two hours.

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that the Iranian visitor carried with him a wide-ranging proposal to ease the strained relations between Tehran and the moderate Arab governments.

Without wasting a moment, the next day, the Egyptian president flew to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Arab emirates to discuss the momentous turn of events.

The octogenarian Mubarak travels very infrequently these days because of his failing health except in extraordinary circumstances. He was galvanized this time by the message Larijani brought from Tehran containing the offer of "a new Iranian approach to resolving outstanding issues." Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already offered to open an embassy in Cairo for the first time since ties were broken off after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

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