The Huffington Post: Army General David Petraeus told Congress that “the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it.”
In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons–and quickly–or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities itself.
[Of course, Iran does not pose any nuclear threat to Israel, even if Iran develops nuclear weapons. Iran does not pose a nuclear threat to Israel because the Jewish State is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Indeed, irrespective of Ahmadinejad’s statements, Iran has time and again shown itself to be pragmatic. Israel, however, opposes Iran’s potential nuclear weapons program simply because it has been trying unsuccessfully to prevent the shift in the balance of power that has occured in recent years in Iran’s favor. While Israel enjoys having a nuclear deterrent, it wants to make sure Iran remains without one, thereby maintaining some leverage of the regime in Iran.]
The Israeli threat to strike Iran militarily if the West fails to stop the nuclear program may, of course, be a tremendous bluff. After all, such threats may just be aimed at motivating President Obama and others to grapple urgently with the problem. But Netanyahu and his advisers seem to believe sincerely that Israel would have difficulty surviving in a Middle East dominated by a nuclear Iran. And they are men predisposed to action; many, like Netanyahu, are former commandos.
As I waited in the Knesset cafeteria to see Netanyahu, I opened a book he edited of his late brother’s letters. Yoni Netanyahu, a commando leader, was killed in 1976 during the Israeli raid on Entebbe, and his family organized his letters in a book they titled Self-Portrait of a Hero. In one letter, Yoni wrote to his teenage brother, then living in America, who had apparently been in a fight after someone directed an anti-Semitic remark at him. “I see … that you had to release the surplus energy you stored up during the summer,†Yoni wrote. “There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s too bad you sprained a finger in the process. In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with a good fist fight; on the contrary, if you’re young and you’re not seriously hurt, it won’t do you real harm. Remember what I told you? He who delivers the first blow, wins.â€
http://www.theatlantic.com
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Today, a Palestinian attacked some settler children with an axe and killed one, wounded another. Arash will call them ‘savages’ an uncivilized. He will rant in a language that barely resembles English with spelling and grammatical mistakes. He will be outraged by the killing of one children, but not the incineration of hundreds in Gaza. Again, thats what you expect from someone with an irrational thought process, where there is no logic in play.
He will be outraged by the killing of one CHILD.
🙂 there is a difference between someone who is targeting terrorists who put children intentionally at risk and someone who intends to kill a child w/ an Axe. If you really can’t tell the difference, then your reasoning is flaw (i’m not suprised, you are not motivated by reason or logic, it’s a hatred that motivates you-aka palestinian cause). Israel does not target children, neither does it intent to target children. If there are children dead in Gaza, it is as sad as an Israeli boy getting killed. I do condemn the people who have caused it and in my opinion it is Hamas who use them for their own protection. Hamas is in complete control of the territory and they are the dominant force in that region. They openly brainwash these children for their own benefit and actively use them for protection. It’s not only Hamas, it is the whole Palestinian Cause who use children for their benefit. They have benefited greatly from dead children and they have bought a lot of sympathy for their freudulent cause. Did you forget the clip I put here where the Hamas men were using children to see where the helicopter is?
The element of intent and mens rea are very important. Israel tries and have taken extensive measure to protect Palestinian children and civilians. It’s not Israel to blame when Hamas’s brave soldiers hide behind their women and children and then use them like bunch of media whores to influence morons like you who can’t see the difference.
It’s a monster like you who is trying to justify the killing of a child w/ an Axe (yes it is barbaric and incredibly savage) by refering back to Gaza. THIS IS PALESTINIAN CAUSE!
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:34:33 GMT
Israeli settlers have broken in and seized a house in the Palestinian quarter of (Jerusalem) al-Quds, changing the locks to keep the owners out.
“The settlers broke down the door and changed the locks. We called the (Israeli) police, but instead of removing them, the police are protecting them,” the homeowner’s father, Ali, told AFP on Thursday.
The residence is the property of Nasser Jaber and had been vacant for some time.
Ali Jaber believes the squatters belong to the far-right Ateret Cohanim organization which is tasked with settling as many Jews as possible in the Muslim quarter of al-Quds.
Ateret Cohanim had previously attempted to take over the same house by presenting a bill of sale which an Israeli court later nullified.
Some 1,000 Israeli settlers live in houses that Aterit Cohanim says it has bought in East al-Quds.
At least 250,000 Israeli settlers currently live illegally in al-Quds, and settler-only roads are being built to link settlements and isolate the Palestinians in Jerusalem (al-Quds) from villages and towns in the West Bank.
Israel captured the mostly Arab East al-Quds in 1967 and later annexed the part in a move not recognized by the international community.
Tel Aviv continues to erect new homes in the occupied Palestinian territory despite strong opposition from the international community.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=90282§ionid=351020202
rash the liar, ready to be exposed? You said: ” Israel does not target children, neither does it intent to target children. If there are children dead in Gaza, it is as sad as an Israeli boy getting killed. I do condemn the people who have caused it and in my opinion it is Hamas who use them for their own protection.”
What does the documentary record show:
“In order to explain the high number of civilian casualties from the fighting in Gaza, Israeli government and IDF officials have repeatedly blamed Hamas for using civilians as “human shields” and for fighting from civilian objects. In the cases documented in this report, Human Rights Watch found no evidence of Hamas using human shields in the vicinity at the time of the attacks. In some areas Palestinian fighters appear to have been present, such as in Khuza’a and the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, but this does not justify the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus in a populated area.”
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/81726/section/2
And you know that whole human shielding thing you are talking about? Israel is kind of into that:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2002/04/17/israel-dont-coerce-civilians-do-armys-work
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/03/15/israel-stop-forcing-civilians-assist-military-operations
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/05/19/international-efforts-still-failing-child-soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/02/israel1
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-wDadHkpVcg1DVFpsgF9RL5hnPQD973RJ0G0
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/un-accuses-troops-of-using-boy-11-as-human-shield-1652605.html
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/FJTC-7QMDYR?OpenDocument
believe me I could go on. Now, Arash, what was that again? Run away coward, again with your tail inbetween your legs.
AGAIN, THIS IS NOT EXPOSING; first and foremost: utilizing white phosphorous is not against international law or international custom, even if it is in populated area. 2nd, other countries including nato and U.S has used white phosphorous in populated areas such as Afghanistan and Iraq. So spare me the whole B.S you listed up there. 3rd: using phosphorous does not PROVE intent to kill children. You could argue recklessness, but it is not intent and that’s a whole different argument. If you would like to prove intent you have to show me documents that Israeli had given clear order to deliberately targete civlians. With regard to Hamas using children: do i need to show you video footage of Hamas fighter firing missiles from schools, or using children to locate helicopters? Or did you forget about them already.
AGAIN: DO NOT TRY TO JUSTIFY A BARBARIC ACT OF ONE PALESTNIAN TERRORIST THROUGH WHAT HAPPENED IN GAZA. JUST DON’T CUZ YOU ARE MAKING YOURSELF LOOK BACK.
THE GUY GUY CHASES AFTER A KID AND SPLIT HIS HEAD OPEN IS A LOT DIFFERENT. ELEMETN OF INTENT IS OBVIOUS.
OH BY THE WAY: RASH IS THE THING ON UR MOM’S VAGINA AND THE REASON THAT UR MOM HAS BEEN GRUMPY TO U.
How exactly does “Israel” plan on destroying Iran’s entire nuclear industry? Does it plan to just fly its US Taxpayer bought&donated f-15/16 jets over Iran skies and taunt/bomb those below? Like it does in Gaza/Lebanon? The bombs that it has available won’t penetrate anywhere deep enough to eradicate facilities deep underground.. they out to know this. Bush knocked back their request for US Taxpayer funded war weaponry/munitions needed to do the job.. I doubt Obama is gonna comply, either. Unless they plan on using their French made Jericho missiles tipped with their French made nukes and destroy Iran (which would almost guarantee their own destruction by Pakistan or Russia.. their ain’t shit all they can do besides what they have always been good at.. killing civilians.
Oh.. and I got to know.. who is this “A-rash” character? I never did like that name.. who wants to be named after a skin ailment?
Again, Arash, this is why I begin to think you are a little bit retarded. The entire POINT of the white phosphorous documentation is to show that it is illegal to use indiscriminately on civilian targets, as was documented that Israel did do. It is also not illegal to use F-16 jets, UNLESS they are used to bomb civilian targets obviously Arash. Do you see? It is the USE of the materials that matters, not the materials themselves. How do these basic concepts escape you?
Unfortunately Arash, again, has proven that his learning diability doesnt allow him to read properly. The long list of sources documents the extensive use by ISRAEL of human shields, it doesnt have to do with white phosphorous. Are you able to read properly?
Then, you said : “You could argue recklessness, but it is not intent and that’s a whole different argument. If you would like to prove intent you have to show me documents that Israeli had given clear order to deliberately targete civlians.”
If you indiscriminately attacks civilian infrastructure, then, for all practical purposes, you are targeting it. For example, one of the main reasons Hamas used to send its suicide bombers on buses was to cripple the Israeli economy. Now, only in your insane world would you say that Hamas was merely “reckless” and the civilians ON the buses were collateral damage. But i suppose the bottom line here is a difference of opinion. You think it is more morally reprehensible to kill and wound a child with an axe. I think it is more morally reprehensible to incinerate thousands of people and destroy entire neighborhoods. You would have been ON the side of the Nazis in the 1930’s given your logic, I would have not.
And arash, relax. Pouya had to post my post and the a was cut off. Lets not get personal, bc while my mother may or may not have a rash, your gf DID actually leave you.