Israel switches to Iran after Gaza.

[Antaletriangle]

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?i...onid=351020101

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:07:23 GMT


Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak
Tel Aviv has reintroduced the idea of attacking Iran in the wake of a deadly military offensive in Gaza, which claimed over 1300 lives.

In a Saturday night meeting with Quartet envoy Tony Blair, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak claimed that Iran's nuclear program threaten the stability of the region.

Iran's enrichment program is a threat for the stability of the Middle East and the whole world. There is still time for sanctions and for the free countries of the world to implement economic sanctions against Iran," said Barak.

Barak said that Israel was not taking any option off the table with regards to a military attack against Iran, although it needs to cooperate with, Russia and China.

"Cooperation with different countries especially with Russia and China is necessary in light of the threat. This, however, does not take any options off the table," Barak said in remarks translated from an AFP report.

Barak was referring to the West's failure to come to an agreement with Moscow and Beijing about imposing tougher sanctions against Iran in the last UN Security Council resolution passed on Iran.

Under pressure from Israel's devoted ally the US, the Security Council has so far approved four resolutions against Iran, asking the country to suspend its enrichment activities, regardless of NPT (nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) regulations.

In a November meeting with the then US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Barak asked Washington not to rule out the military option against Iran.

Israel claims that the speedy rate at which Iran is conducting its nuclear program and the comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel's final fate indicate that Tehran poses a threat to Israel.

Clarifying his mistranslated comments about wiping Israel off the map, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly explained that he intended to point out that the regime will disappear the same way the Soviet Union and the South African apartheid regime did.

Despite being used in nuclear weaponization programs, uranium enrichment is not an indicator of possible armament intentions, as the process is also part of the nuclear fuel production cycle.

Iran which conducts enrichment on the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog refuses to halt the process arguing that it will turn the country into an energy dependant state when its fossil reserves run out.

The NPT reserves the right for all its signatories to conduct enrichment as part of a civilian nuclear program. The UN watchdog has confirmed that the rate of Iran's enrichment is consistent with a civilian nuclear program.

Quite contrary to Israeli claims, Iran says Israel is the source of all unrest in the Middle East, being the region's sole nuclear armed power and a major participant in most wars.

Throughout its 60-year existence Tel Aviv has taken part in nine regional military confrontations. In its latest military adventurism, Israel killed more than 1340 people, injured around 5,500, and damaged over 12,000 homes.

Israel threatens Iran despite its failure to reach the goals it set out to achieve in the onset of its military campaign in Gaza- an impoverished coastal enclave that had suffered devastating economic set-backs because of an 18-month-long Israeli siege.

When launching the offensive, Tel Aviv said that it wanted to stop rocket fire into Israel. Later on, it added toppling the democratically-elected Palestinian government of Hamas to its list of objectives.

However, as the crisis unfolded, Hamas rocket fire continued, hitting deeper targets within Israel and even reaching an airbase 15 kilometers from Tel Aviv. Hamas is still in control of Gaza, after the two sides announced separate ceasefires.

[Northern Boy]

Any attack on Iran will draw the russians into it

[Dantheman62]

Israel needs to keep their mouth shut and just sit tight in their little dust speck of an area they call home.

[Humble Janitor]

Originally Posted by Dantheman62

Israel needs to keep their mouth shut and just sit tight in their little dust speck of an area they call home.

Agreed.

If only the rest of the world would stand against Israel and show them that they cannot bomb and kill people at will based on pre-emptive issues.

[Noela]

To me it absolutely beggers believe
that a country (Israel) can go in, and apart from the dreadful loss of life, completely vandalise the country
and then the rest of the world is asked to provide
the money to rebuild it!

Not to mention the fact that much of the money
to build the official buildings was probably
originally provided by the international community.

In what other walk of life would such a thing
be countenanced.

[Avid]

Originally Posted by Noela

To me it absolutely beggers believe
that a country (Israel) can go in, and apart from the dreadful loss of life, completely vandalise the country
and then the rest of the world is asked to provide
the money to rebuild it!

Not to mention the fact that much of the money
to build the official buildings was probably
originally provided by the international community.

In what other walk of life would such a thing
be countenanced.

Israel could not exist unless it was bankrolled by the US.
Look what's happening now? Thousands of tons of US latest weaponry on a boat on it's way to Israel. Many tonnes more than would be usual - what are they preparing for?

US and Israel tried to use Georgia as a base to bomb Iran - that was rumbled by Russia and stopped. How to get Iran embroiled this time? Needle it by it's humanitarianism in sending aid to Gaza, then block that aid causing confrontation - foment foment goad goad. It suits the Zionists, the US perpetrators of NWO, and whatever irrational/religious maniacal final 'Rapture' they are after.



How on earth is peace going to be acheived if there are such radical imbalances in the processes?
To quote an extremists view:

“ONLY JEWS MAKE UP OBAMA’S NEW MIDDLE EAST TEAM,” reported an outspoken journalist for the New York Times, on January 11, 2009.
“The team,” reported Roger Cohen, “includes Dennis Ross (former Clinton Mid-East envoy); James Steinberg (as deputy Secretary of State); Dan Kurtzer (former US ambassador to Israel); and Dan Shapiro (a longtime Obama aide).

Cohen points out that there are no Arabs on Obama’s Middle East negotiating team. And in response to the adulatory articles on Ross’ appointment as “one who can effect major renewal of US policy,” Cohen asks the question: “I wonder about the capacity for “major renewal” of someone who has failed for so long.”

Recognizing the imbalance of only Jews being on the negotiating team, Obama announced the appointment of former Senator, George Mitchell, as his “Middle East envoy.” Obama will be sending Mitchell to meet with Israeli leaders & Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Obama mentions nothing about the Gaza invasion (and the slaughter of civilians by Israel), nor any negotiations with Hamas & Hezboullah, (the real players in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict). But rather, it’s the same old players involved in the “negotiating process” by which Israel always gets its way.

I'm sure this wasn't a direct attack on Jewish people per se, but really on Zionism - the political movement.

[burgundia]

So maybe it's time for American citizens to do sth and prevent their own government from sucking up to Israel so much.

[Avid]

Originally Posted by burgundia

So maybe it's time for American citizens to do sth and prevent their own government from sucking up to Israel so much.

That will pose quite a problem, as the Zionist movement controls most of the government, and the legal system.

[burgundia]

Originally Posted by Avid

That will pose quite a problem, as the Zionist movement controls most of the government, and the legal system.

we know that, that's why it is the way it is...But only Americans can do sth about it.

[Swanny]

Israel needs to be stopped