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2013-11-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel, Saudi Arabia working on Iran strike plan

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Posted by Steve White 2013-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Not true, but appealing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-17 02:48|| 2013-11-17 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 You can't always trust what you read. I will believe this when Dan rather gets his old job back.

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2013-11-17 05:16|| 2013-11-17 05:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think the Saudis can be trusted atm. Not that I trust John 'Marshall Petain' Kerry either.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-11-17 07:29|| 2013-11-17 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe not true, but, can you think of any other "smart diplomacy" that could even get these sorts of ideas broached?

The Zero regime has plumbed depths of depravity and incompetence unthought of, not to mention reached, in the past.

Posted by AlanC 2013-11-17 09:45|| 2013-11-17 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Who cares if it's not true? If we had a CIA worth anything at all we'd be leaking Photoshopped images of Israeli F15s at Dahrain...

Posted by Steve White 2013-11-17 10:49|| 2013-11-17 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Report: Obama Refusing To Take Calls From Netanyahu Over Iran <LINK>

...Bloggery origin, including denials, HERE...

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-11-17 14:33|| 2013-11-17 14:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama's finally found a cause Pat Buchanan can back!

Posted by Frank G 2013-11-17 14:59|| 2013-11-17 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Report: Obama Refusing To Take Calls From Netanyahu Over Iran...

I guess he'll have to read what happened to Iran in a newspaper.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-17 15:00|| 2013-11-17 15:00|| Front Page Top

#9 this is probably also being coordinated with the French since the existence of Israel-Saudi cooperation gives the French more leverage in getting a non appeasement deal between Iran and the US/EU

I've also wondered where China in this. A nuclear Iran would seem to be very bad for China as it would up the price for oil.

Posted by lord garth 2013-11-17 17:58|| 2013-11-17 17:58|| Front Page Top

#10 China talks about how they're going to take back Taiwan. They talk about how they're going to take all of the Philipines' territorial waters. They talk about how unfortunately there's nothing they can do if the Norks go off the reservation (wink wink) against the South.

But I suspect their real Next Planned Shooting War is to take over the Russian Far East once the Iranian Bomb War kicks off.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-11-17 18:35|| 2013-11-17 18:35|| Front Page Top

#11 ..yes, 'importing' oil from Siberia (or whatever the Chinese end up calling it) is a lot more secure and less costly then building a large blue water navy to protect their oil supply lines(see Japan circa 1941).

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-17 18:48|| 2013-11-17 18:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Iff the MSM-Net is to be believed, Israel + the KSA have been working on an Iran attack plan for several years now.

As per #10, IMO no matter whether it begins wid JAPAN, PHIL, TAIWAN, INDIA, or even RUSSIA = RFE, it will devol into perhaps China's only opportunity this century to voluntarily/
diplomatically or forcibly all of its "strategic access" issues.

The longer China waits, the more difficult it will become as the US-Allies establish permanent GMD-TMD, + both China's regional allies as well as rivals, + Radical Islam, become MilPol stronger + go full-monty Nukulaar.

* E.G. TOPIX > ABE HAILS JAPAN'S RETURN TO WORLD STAGE.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > JAPAN DEFENSE MINISTRY FOR 60% CUT IN TANKS, COURSE FOR MILITARY REFORM [Tech-led/centered expansion].

* BIG NEWS NETWORK > JAPAN TO TAP TECHNOLOGY FOR MILITARY USE, ANOTHER STEP AWAY FROM PACIFISM.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > INDIA TO HAVE 200 WARSHIPS IN NEXT TEN YEARS, up from 136 tote at present + to include up to three CV's in three separate major MR commands.

VERSUS

* OTOH INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA TO BUILD SUPER NUCLEAR BOMBER CAPABLE OF CARRYING OF 200 NUCLEAR BOMBS [170-210 qty = bombload] | IDRW.ORG.

[DR. FU MANCHU, NOT-AN-AGENT-OF-SHIELD [or is He?] = "CAPTAIN AMERICA, WINTER SOLDIER" FLYING AIRCRAFT CARRIER here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-11-17 18:59|| 2013-11-17 18:59|| Front Page Top

#13 It's raining in Riyadh, they may be quite sincere.

Posted by newc 2013-11-17 20:04|| 2013-11-17 20:04|| Front Page Top

#14 More ...

* WORLD NEWS > [Siasat Daily] IRAN: NO NEED FOR WEST TO DECLARE [inalienable = natural = self-evident] ENRICHMENT RIGHT.

FM Mohammed Javad Zarif.

"Iran holds these Truths to be Self-Evident ... ... And that among these Rights is the Right to Life, Liberty, + the Pursuit of Uranium or Plutonium".

* SAME > [WaPo] AN IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT - JUST BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVES.

IMO read, SHORT-OF-WAR???

versus

* TOPIX > [Times of Israel] HOLLANDE: FOR DEAL, IRAN MUST HALT ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS.

Dare Hollande be the opposite of POTUS Bammer - HOLLANDE IS A LOUSY GLOBALIST + EU UNIONIST, BUT ONE HELLUVA OUTSTANDING NATIONALIST + PRO-SOVEREIGNTY FRENCHMAN???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-11-17 22:12|| 2013-11-17 22:12|| Front Page Top

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