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| Netanyahu raises fresh fears over Iran strike | |
| 2012-03-09 | |
| Benjamin Netanyahu has triggered fresh speculation that he could authorise military action against Iran by declaring that a unilateral Israeli strike would not cause an irreparable rupture in relations with the United States. The Israeli prime minister countered domestic critics who have argued that an attack would antagonise the Jewish state's most powerful patron by pointing to predecessors who had defied Washington without doing long-term damage. The Six Day War of 1967, the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the bombardment of an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 were all launched in opposition to US wishes.
"We're not standing with a stopwatch in hand," he said in an interview with Israeli television to be broadcast on Saturday evening. "It's not a matter of days or weeks, but also not years. The result must be the removal of the threat of nuclear weapons in Iran's hands." | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 Bibi is an "Army of Davids" in this totally baffling era. Pharaoh marginalizes him at our peril. |
| Posted by: Jusomble Whinens3272 2012-03-09 22:50 |
| #8 And if that wasn't enough, I'd whack 'em again. I believe this is referred to as "mowing the grass". |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-03-09 22:40 |
| #7 ION WAFF > [YNET News = ex-MOSSAD Chief] DAGAN: INSTEAD OF ATTACK [war] - FOMENT "REGIME CHANGE" IN IRAN. Still comes down to doing such before the Mullahs dev + control any Nukes + the LRBMS to deliver 'em, i.e. before the Mullahs "use 'em or lose 'em" before they lose power??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-09 21:11 |
| #6 Wish they could, tipper. He'd win. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-03-09 20:07 |
| #5 Wait till Obama reads this:) GOP to nominate PM as US presidential candidate |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-03-09 19:23 |
| #4 Saw this recently, and its apt for the Iranian Leadership and radical Islamists: "I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them--none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way." Dickens |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2012-03-09 18:49 |
| #3 If I were the Israeli PM (less likely to happen than becoming POTUS, though when you're that close to zero it's hard to tell), I would already have whacked Iran using the best tools I had available. And if that wasn't enough, I'd whack 'em again. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-03-09 17:53 |
| #2 an attack would antagonise the Jewish state's most powerful patron Dead people don't need patrons. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-03-09 15:42 |
| #1 "The Israeli prime minister countered domestic critics who have argued that an attack would antagonise the Jewish state's most powerful patron by pointing to predecessors who had defied Washington without doing long-term damage. ... the Suez Crisis of 1956 ... all launched in opposition to US wishes." One could say that the Suez Crisis of 1956 changed everything and not in a good way for Israel as it was not long afterwards that their European friends dismantled their empires and found it convenient to bash Israel at every opportunity. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-03-09 14:41 |