The plot thickens. Apparently, the inmates are getting desperate to do
their worst before Bush et al. leave office. After that, the adults take
over and perhaps things might calm down.
I would think all Jews should fear the consequences of what would follow
an attack on Iran. People, no matter what they think about God's gift of
Israel or a future threat by Iran, will be very unhappy when gas goes to
$6/gal in the US and the price of food follows. Such people are not
going to be happy with what the Jews have done once the smoke clears
even though the blame should fall on a few crazy people in Israel.
Ed
Israeli Warns: "War Party" In Last-Gasp Push For Iran Attack
as found in Lyndon Larouche PAC web article
JUNE 20, (LPAC)--A senior Israeli source warned yesterday, in
discussions with Executive Intelligence Review, that an intense policy
brawl has erupted in Israel, over the issue of Israeli preventive
strikes against Hezbollah, and bombing raids against Iranian nuclear
sites, including the enrichment facility at Natanz. The source reported
that the Cheney circles in Washington have been putting tremendous
pressure on the fragile Olmert government in Tel Aviv, to carry out
preventive strikes against sites in Iran, and against the Hezbollah
security infrastructure in southern Lebanon. These pressures come at the
same time that progress has been made on a number of key peace
negotiating fronts, involving Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria.
The source, a U.S.-based Israeli with strong ties to the present Olmert
government, reported that top officials of the Israeli Defense Force,
including the current Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Gabriel
Ashkenazi, strongly oppose both of the military schemes. At a recent
security cabinet meeting, the source reported, Gen. Ashkenazi bluntly
warned of the dire consequences for Israel of strikes against either
Hezbollah or Iran's nuclear facilities, calling such schemes "madness."
Nevertheless, hardliners in Israel, including Likud Party chairman and
former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defense Minister
Shaul Mofaz, Olmert's current deputy prime minister, are pressing for
Israeli military strikes against Iran. The source reported that when
Prime Minister Olmert was recently in Washington to address the America
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention, he met privately
with Bush and Cheney, and came under intense personal pressure from the
Vice President to take action against Iran. He claimed that Israeli
pilots are now covertly training on state-of-the-art U.S. fighter jets
at locations in the Nevada desert, in preparation for an Israeli bombing
of Natanz and other Iranian sites.
Today, the New York Times reported that, in early June, Israel conducted
large-scale military exercises, involving more than 100 F-15 and F-16
fighter jets, as well as helicopters, over Greece and the eastern
Mediterranean. The exercise covered a distance of 900 miles, which is
also the distance between Israel and the Natanz enrichment facility in
Iran. The day after the exercises were completed, Mofaz gave an
interview to the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, warning that "if Iran
continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will
attack... Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be
unavoidable."
In response to the New York Times report of the Israeli Air Force
maneuvers, and the threats from Mofaz, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei
Lavrov, on June 20, warned against the use of force against Iran, and
chastised both the United States and Israel for ``matter-of-factly”
claiming that Iran was working on a nuclear weapon, when no evidence
exists that their nuclear energy program is aimed at building a bomb.
While some U.S. military analysts have insisted that Israel does not
have the capability of destroying the Natanz facility, unless they use
nuclear weapons, a recent report by the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy (WINEP), a rightwing Zionist Lobby think tank, claimed that
it didn't matter whether a bombing attack succeeded or failed. The
effect, either way, of an Israeli or American attack on Natanz and other
sites, would be to deter Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Senior
retired U.S. military officers, contacted by EIR and asked to comment on
the WINEP report, denounced it as "extremely dangerous."
Harry Veeder wrote:
On 23/6/2008 12:05 PM, Edmund Storms wrote:
Harry Veeder wrote:
On 23/6/2008 8:14 AM, Taylor J. Smith wrote:
Hi All,
Now Mohamed ElBaradei follows in the footsteps of
Admiral Fallon.
Jack Smith
Ed Storms wrote on 6-20-08:
``If you would like to understand the irrational thinking
that drives the policy with respect to Iran and Israel,
read this article.''
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/06/iran-neocons-sa.html
``NEWS ARTICLE from The Los Angeles Times, 6-19-08,
IRAN: Stop nukes by bombing oil wells, neocons suggest
Why attack Iran's nuclear facilities when striking their
oil infrastructure would be much more effective in the
scope of a US-led preventive war? Sure, oil prices might
skyrocket and the world economy might collapse. But, hey,
that's the price you pay for security ...''
which gives the Iranians another reason to develop nuclear power,
which leads to more Israeli paranoia...which leads to more war talk,
which gives the Iranians another reason to develop nuclear power...
Thus we see the wisdom of the Christian advice to "turn the other cheek"
in contrast to the Jewish approach of "taking an eye for an eye".
The problem is the Jewish norm is also a Muslim norm, so the worst thing
the US could do is take sides by refusing to talk to the Iranians.
Harry
