Netanyahu: Pre-emptive Strike on Iran (if elected) Israel

[IChing]

NewsWire

Netanyahu: Pre-emptive Strike on Iran
By Ryan Jones, JNewsWire.com
MichNews.com
Dec 5, 2005


If he succeeds in becoming Israel's next prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu indicated Monday he will not hesitate to order a military strike against Iran's nuclear program in order to safeguard his nation from annihilation.

“I will continue the tradition established by Menachem Begin, who did not allow Iraq to develop such a nuclear threat against Israel, and by a daring and courageous act gave us two decades of tranquility,” Netanyahu told Israel's Maariv daily.
“I believe that this is what Israel has to do” in the face of the growing Iranian threat, he continued.

Netanyahu’s statement comes after IDF Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Aharon Ze'evi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week that the world has only four months to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“If by the end of March 2006, the international community does not manage to use diplomatic means to block Iran's effort to produce a nuclear bomb, there will no longer be any reason to continue diplomatic activity in this field, and it will be possible to say that the international attempts to thwart have failed,” Ze'evi said.>>>snip

edited for the original link to the story :http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=893

[PassingFair]

1. Who the hell does he think he is?

POTUS?

:puke:

[IndianaGreen]

8. He grew up in America

so he thinks like a cowboy!

[tocqueville]

2. if the 4 month story was true Sharon had struck already

reminds me of "WMDs in 45 min"....

[mtnester]

3. Before long, the Middle East will no longer be afraid to strike like a

cobra.

I mean, does Israel not understand if you poke the dog with a stick through the fence long enough, the dog will not care when it tears you apart the first chance it gets? Or that you will kill it? It will do as much damage as possible, regardless. I suppose not, because we have been the prime example of poking the dog...and it is simply a matter of time.

The Middle East will soon, IMO only, be fighting for its collective way of life. Old enemies will unite in order to preserve themselves. This is what the policies of our government will have helped to drive them to, Israel included. (and when I speak of Israel, I speak of their governing leaders, not the regular folk, just like when I speak of our government, I mean this asshat admin and its minions, not regular folk)

[Therealhelmetcase]

5. Bibi

Isn't Netanyahu a disgraced enough political figure in Israel as to render all the press devoted to this lastest soundbite...well, overblown? IIRC, his wife was quoted as saying Israel could be driven into the sea for all she cared after the way her husband was treated.

[georgia10]

4. michnews is worse

than drudge, if that's possible. Pure propaganda outfit, 100% freeper bullshit. I wouldn't believe anything on that site.

[PsychoDad]

6. Under the "Bush doctrine" of pre-emptive defense....

Doesn't this give Iran the "right" to strike first? You understand, fight them there so we don't have to fight them here and all that?

And given the Bush logic of engagement, wouldn't Iran be justified to engage Israel in Switzerland or Bermuda? :silly:

But seriously, all this saber rattling is going to lead to someone using one sooner or later.

Peace

[IndianaGreen]

7. Bibi will have his hands full winning the Likud nomination

and he stands little change of beating the new Kadima Party.

[Malva Zebrina]

9. So this is like threat number five or six from Israel toward Iran?

Let em. The US cannot back it up at this point, not even with tons of money, unless Bush is willing to incur MORE debt and shackle Americans and their grandchildren with that. Let em attack Iran and let em see that they will, imo, have the backing of NO ONE, should that be their choice.

If Israel thinks that pre-e,ption is necessary, and don't forget this is the fifth or so mention of pre-emptive attack on Iran so far as I know, let em do it. Who will be their ally? Not the US, because we have been stretched thin, indeed and the people are not in the mood for anyh more of our troops being killed for pre-emptive attacks.

It won't happen and if Israel, with some 200 or so nukes, and consistently refused to agree to a non proliferation treaty, keeps it up, they indeed will look like warmongers willing to send the world into a world war for the sake of defending itself. Iran seeks to defend itself as much as Israel seeks to defend itself. Why should it not, when Bush names it as a member of the axis of evil, and Israel continues to lob threats toward it? If Iran does manage to get a nuke, then it is over. This nuke defense is the best defense toward peace, forced as it may be.

[bemildred]

10. Oh, it's been going on much longer than that.

This is particularly stupid, even for Bibi, because it puts Iran in a use it or lose it position if this moron gets his hands on the levers of power.

[President Kerry]

11. can we find an unhabited atoll somewhere in the Pacific

and send Bibi and * to rule it, so they don't feel the peskiness of law? Or give them an iceberg or something?

[comradebillyboy]

12. I suspect that Likud will turn into more of a fringe party

of the settlers and religious nuts now that Sharon has left it. Sharon has really pulled the rug out from under Bibi.