By Alan Caruba
The Israelis will destroy several
Iranian nuclear facilities and my educated guess is that they will do so before
the end of this year.
Israel has no margin of error when it
comes to nuclear reactors in nations that threaten its existence. While
President Obama does everything in his power to enable Iran to create its own
nuclear weapons, it is a good idea to recall that in June 1981 the Israelis
destroyed a reactor in Iraq. It was the first air strike against such a
facility. In September 2007, the Israelis destroyed a Syrian reactor. There was
no reprisal in either case.
From Wednesday, April 22 to Friday
April 24 the Israelis struck Hizbollah and Syrian military targets in the
Walamoun Mountains on the Syrian-Lebanese border. The calculations were that the
location, a site for long-range missiles, would be safer from the Israelis. They
were wrong.
In September 2014, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly
warning “don’t be fooled by Iran’s manipulative charm offensive. It’s designed
for one purpose and for one purpose only. To lift the sanctions and remove the
obstacles to Iran’s path to the bomb.”
“Once Iran produces atomic bombs, all
the charm and all the smiles will suddenly disappear. They’ll just vanish. It’s
then that the ayatollahs will show their true face and unleash their aggressive
fanaticism on the entire world.” He
offered a comparable message to a joint meeting of Congress in March of this
year.
Is anyone listening? Not President
Obama. On April 25, writing in The Wall Street Journal, Mortimer
Zuckerman, the chairman and editor in chief of the U.S. News and World
Report, said “President Obama has been chasing a rainbow in his negotiations
with Iran. He has forsaken decades of pledges to the civilized world from
presidents of both parties. He has misled the American people in repeatedly
affirming that the U.S. would never allow revolutionary Iran to acquire nuclear
weapons.”
It’s bad enough when you can’t trust
your nation’s enemies, but when you cannot trust your own President you have a
very big problem because Iran is not just a threat to America and Israel, but to
the entire world.
Obama’s anti-Semitism is obvious to
anyone paying the least attention. He particularly loathes Israel. In early
April the White House let its unhappiness be known that Netanyahu had, in its
words, failed to tone down “hostile and aggressive language” of the Passover
religious service. What were those words? “Next year in Jerusalem.”
This is an ancient Jewish prayer that
sustained generations of Jews over the course of two millennia, expressing their
hope to return to their homeland. To the White House, however, it was “affront
to the Palestinians, not to mention a slap in the face to President Obama
himself who has worked tirelessly for peace despite Israeli intransigence.” The
Jews returned to Israel, declared its independence in 1948, and have had the
support of every President since…until Obama.
The Israelis know this. Since their
independence the Israelis have fought seven recognized wars, two Palestinian
intifadas, and a series of armed conflicts in the broader Arab-Israeli conflict.
Most recently they put down Hamas in the Gaza once again for its repeated
rocketing.
Despite or because of this, the
Israelis have sought to demonstrate good will toward their Arab neighbors. There
is an untold story of the December 2014 meeting of six Gulf Cooperation Council
rulers in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss steps to respond to challenges
that include Iranian aggression and clamping down on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sources close to event report that
Netanyahu has achieved close coordination with the most important Arab leaders
that include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Other
members of the Council include Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab
Emirates.
The Israelis have no choice, nor do
I anticipate that Iran will do much, if anything, to respond in the wake of the
ashes of those facilities. No other nation will come to their aid.
© Alan Caruba, 2015
4 comments:
If Israel commits this aggressive act of war, the entire weight of the world should fall upon them. Massive bombing like the war criminals in Germany and Japan faced. No nation should be able to aggressively attack an innocent without facing destruction.
I fear Obama will order cruise missile strikes against Israeli air bases and other military facilities if Israel attacks his masters in Tehran.
And congress will go along with it, using "restoration of peace in the aftermath of the Israeli aggression against peaceful Iran" or some such nonsense as the excuse.
That that'd set off a rapid invasion of Israel by its neighbours, who'd recognise the resulting terminal weakness of the Jewish state, is for Obama icing on the cake.
Israel is so small and it's population so close together that two nukes would destroy 90% of it's infrastructure and it's population. They must preempt such an attack. You must consider that Iran has said that they want Israel destroyed and there is zero other reason for Iran to acquire nukes. So while it may be OK for other nations to base their nuclear policy os a retalliation Israel cannot.
If we go with c.m. then no problem for the United States to lose at least 5 cities to the "innocent" iran nonviolent nuclear missles that will fly from iran and other places over there.
I take islams at their word.
Are you ready for that c?
Heltau
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