Empire Strikes Back -- israel loses again
This is getting exciting.
Last week, israel was caught off guard by a proposed Security Council resolution that would have forced them to make good on promises they made at Annapolis - something they had never planned on doing.
This week, israelis were caught off guard by a US intelligence report that basically harpooned four years of their hard work trying to make a case for attacking Iran.
It's 0-for-2 -- israel is on a roll and I for one like where this is going.
Like the proposed SC resolution, this report was released BEFORE israelis had a chance to look at it - which is why they called it "a blow below the belt."
This is a sure sign that israel is losing its control over the American Empire.
However, the struggle is nowhere near over. Just as they tactlessly used their lackey deputy ambassador to the UN to revoke the proposed SC resolution, they're trying to use their lackey US president to undo the damage of this report.
But, in the process, they are revealing themselves and their war-crazed intentions in all its bloodthirsty glory.
They're exposing themselves more and more by the minute - israelis will be their own undoing.
Israel said Tuesday that it remained convinced that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons and that it had probably resumed the weapons program the Americans said was stopped in the fall of 2003.The defense minister, Ehud Barak, rejected the American assessment of “moderate confidence” that Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program by mid-2007 and that the end to the program “represents a halt to Iran’s entire nuclear weapons program.” He suggested that Israel would not rest in its efforts to stop Iran’s activities.
“It is our responsibility to ensure that the right steps are taken against the Iranian regime,” Mr. Barak told Israeli Army radio. “As is well known, words don’t stop missiles.”
He added: “It is apparently true that in 2003 Iran stopped pursuing its military nuclear program for a certain period of time. But in our estimation, since then it is apparently continuing with its program.”
In other words, whereas the Americans say Iran has stopped its nuclear weapons program while continuing to enrich uranium as rapidly as it can, Israel contends that Iran has resumed its nuclear weapons program with the clear aim of building a nuclear bomb.
Assessments may differ, Mr. Barak said, “but we cannot allow ourselves to rest just because of an intelligence report from the other side of the Earth, even if it is from our greatest friend.”
Hey - all the power to you, Ey-hud!
Go get em!
But, not on our dime, or our lives.
Mr. Barak also said that what appeared to be the source for the American assessment on the weapons program was no longer functioning. “We are talking about a specific track connected with their weapons building program, to which the American connection, and maybe that of others, was severed,” Mr. Barak said cryptically.
It was only on Tuesday, Israeli officials said, that Israel received and began to assess a copy of the classified American report, which is believed to run some 130 pages.
At which point they flipped out and summoned their lackey in chief for an emergency meeting in Tel-Aviv...
President Bush will visit the Middle East in early January, the White House said Tuesday. It declined to provide details, but Israeli newspapers and broadcast media said Mr. Bush would be making the first visit of his presidency to Israel in January.
...for his spanking.
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said diplomacy remained the correct path for now to deter Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. But he was explicit about the Israeli conclusion that Iran’s intention was military, not civilian.
“We believe that the purpose of the Iranian nuclear program is to achieve nuclear weapons,” he said. “There is no other logical explanation for the investment the Iranians have made in their nuclear program.”
Mr. Olmert, who was briefed on the new assessment in Washington last week, tried to play down the gap in judgments with the United States. “According to this report, and to the American position, it is vital to continue our efforts, with our American friends, to prevent Iran from obtaining nonconventional weapons,” he said.
The American assessment said Iran probably halted the weapons program “primarily in response to international pressure,” a judgment Israel embraced as a call for further diplomatic action.
But Israeli experts on Iran said that the American report would make any action against Iran less likely, whether diplomatic or military, and that it would probably kill or dilute American-led efforts to pass another sanctions resolution through the United Nations Security Council.
Efraim Kam, a former Israeli military intelligence official who is now at Tel Aviv University, said the report “makes it very hard for anyone in the United States or Israel who was thinking of going for a military option.”
Mr. Kam said the American assessment surprised him. “The report says its assessment is correct for now — but it could change anytime,” he said. “Maybe the Iranians assessed that it was better for them to halt the military program and concentrate on enriching uranium,” which takes a long time, “and then go back to it.”
Efraim Halevy, a former director of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, said Iran was pursing a nuclear weapon. The American report, he said, “provides no reason to say the threat is gone — it’s not.” He added, “They can stop on the edge of the project to weaponize and decide to proceed at any time.”
As for the role or weight of Israeli intelligence in the American assessments, both in 2005 and now, Mr. Halevy said no country, and especially not the United States, would rely on a foreign assessment without making its own. “No matter how close allies are, you don’t as a rule rely solely on the information of others.”
Too bad our government didn't follow that advice before they swallowed israeli intelligence whole and invaded Iraq.
“No matter how close allies are, you don’t as a rule rely solely on the information of others.”
Unless its BS being fed to the US government from Israel, then our government is supposed to swallow the whole thing, w/o asking questions.
Like the Israeli intelligence on that Syrian building the Israeli Air Force blew to hell.
First, it was a missile sight. Then, it was a secret weapons complex. Then, it was a nuclear reactor.
Now, it's being painted as a sight where nuclear warheads were being assembled.
All lies and all courtesy of our buds in Tel Aviv that we're supposed to gobble down and ask for more.
Truth Seeker-- The next president must round up all these israel firsters and charge them with espionage and treason..He must abolish all israel lobbies and re-open the USS LIBERTY deliberate murder and war crimes commited by zion on US NAVY soldiers and covered up by McNamara etc...