Israel to attend Americas summit

[Judi Lynn]

Israel to attend Americas summit
Sat May 30, 4:43 am ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel's deputy foreign minister will attend the annual summit of the Organization of American States next week in a bid to counter Iran's growing influence in Latin America, an official said on Saturday.

Danny Ayalon plans to meet representatives of several Latin American states at the summit in Honduras as arch-foe Iran tightens trade and military ties with a number of countries, mainly Venezuela and Bolivia, the official told AFP.

"Israel sees in the summit a chance to deepen economic and diplomatic ties with Latin America and to match Iran's and (the Lebanese militia) Hezbollah's involvement in the region," said the official, who asked not to be identified.

The decision to send a high-ranking Israeli representative to the OAS summit for the first time in years stems from Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's plan to bolster diplomatic ties in regions such as Latin America and Africa.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090530/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyisraeloasiran

[EFerrari]

1. The State Department is trying to kill what remains of the OAS, apparently.

[Judi Lynn]

2. How popular do they think they'll be showing up there in a hostile posture, anyway?

They are pretending there's some deep dark covenant being crafted between the "terrorists" in the Mideast Islamic countries and the leftist leaders.

They need to stay home, chill, and start getting up to speed in their research FIRST before setting forth on any more of these half-assed missions.

They should find enough to keep themselves busy at HOME.

[EFerrari]

3. If the OAS were anything but a craven farce, the members would VOTE

on inviting a country outside the region.

Seriously, I bet some members are going to bail over this.

[Judi Lynn]

5. That's so damned rude to invite themselves like that. Creepy.

Never heard of anything like that, EVER before now.

I hope you are so right, and they get a backlash they won't forget.

[magbana]

4. This will be the ass-kicking of the century. Ayalon, you will need all

of your IDF gear.

[Judi Lynn]

6. If they DON'T get their asses kicked something is wildly wrong here.

Seriously delusional about their own importance. It's stupid and brutal for the US to interject itself everywhere in the hemisphere.

What earthly reason could THEY give for butting in so far from home, anyway?