Israeli Realism: ‘.. We Will Attack Iran …’
Israeli Realism
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War On Terror: A possible next prime minister of Israel says his country will attack if Iran continues its nuclear program. How refreshing to hear such plain talk, but too bad the world has let the situation come to this.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, who has announced his candidacy to succeed the beleaguered Ehud Olmert as leader of the Jewish state’s government, last week told a Hebrew-language tabloid:
“If Iran continues its nuclear weapons program, we will attack it.”
According to the former defense minister and army chief of staff, who, ironically, was born in Iran and spent much of his childhood there, “other options are disappearing. The sanctions are not effective. There will be no alternative but to attack Iran in order to stop the Iranian nuclear program.”
We have heard the Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of the United Nations’ nuclear “watchdog,” Mohamed ElBaradei, downplay the Iranian nuclear threat, assuring the world that there is no clear and present danger, and that nothing beyond diplomacy is needed.
We’ve seen Europe move at a snail’s pace for years now in imposing sanctions with little if any direct punitive effect on Iran’s mullahs and their henchmen.
And we have seen the U.S. itself for years miss an opportunity to destabilize the Islamofascist regime by giving material and moral support to the many Iranian freedom fighters, from students to religious leaders, brave enough to hold public demonstration rallies against their nation’s fanatical, terrorist-supporting regime.
Now, thankfully, we hear a democratic politician somewhere being unafraid to mince words — and who, not surprisingly, lives among those who have the most to fear from a nuclear Iran.
The situation grows continually more disturbing. A senior official at the very same International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headed by the sainted ElBaradei detailed last month what the official called Tehran’s “alarming” possession of a 15-page document showing how to construct part of an atomic warhead.
IAEA chief of inspections Olli Heinonen is concerned that Iran had instructions on how to use uranium in building the two hemispheres required in warheads. Iran is expected to have as many as 6,000 centrifuges for producing uranium in operation later this year.
An IAEA report to the U.N. Security Council on the matter expressed concern that Tehran could be concealing information on nuclear weaponization research and that the regime continually refuses to cooperate with investigations. The agency suspects Iran may have been studying explosives used to detonate a certain type of atomic bomb, as well as ways of making Iran’s missiles able to deliver nuclear warheads.
For all the nonsense we hear from politicians on the left, both in America and Europe, about learning the lessons of Iraq, it is they who should be ashamed for not applying the real lesson of Iraq to Iran — that a united world waging serious economic warfare against an aggressor that poses a grave threat can preclude the need for major military action.
Had the free world joined together in a policy of forcing Saddam Hussein from power with total economic isolation and support of internal anti-Saddam forces, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which has cost so many lives, would have been unnecessary.
By the same token, had we for years now been waging an economic war on Iran, Ahmadinejad and the ayatollahs could be gone, and the grave risks of taking out numerous Iranian nuclear facilities would not now have to be taken.
Unfortunately, to keep the world safe from nuclear terrorism, striking Iran seems more imperative with every passing day. One politician in the world, at least, seems to understand that.
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He must be reading Dollard Nation. We’ve been ahead of the curve on Iran for months.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:23 amYa know I’m tired of it having to be our job to do this shit…..but is there any doubt in any rational persons mind, that Iran is alrge reason why there can be no peace in the middle east? As long as this Iranian theocracy exists, it will nto tolerate any other view. It will support and spread violence to all that will not bend to it’s will…..there can be NO peace as long as that regime exists……what I hate is there really is a strong democratic underground movement in Iran, and they’d be hurt too…..but one way or the other, that government can not exist and peace exist in that region.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pmI certainly hope that the Iranian government is paying careful attention to statements such as these from Deputy Prime Minister Mofaz. The Israeli government’s ability to strike Iran and hit very, very hard is no idle threat or mere posturing. In addition to using the F-15s seen in the photo, above, Israel has submarines capable of launching cruise missles armed with nuclear warheads. See:
http://www.nti.org/db/submarines/israel/index.html
and
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1012-02.htm
and
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/sub.htm
If provoked, Israel will incinerate Iran. Mr. Ahmadinejad, I strongly suggest you call your office.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm