Posted on 04/07/2009 10:53:07 PM PDT by americanophile
Reporting from Washington -- Vice President Joe Biden issued a high-level admonishment to Israel's new government Tuesday that it would be "ill advised" to launch a military strike against Iran.
Biden said in a CNN interview that he does not believe newly installed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would take such a step. Even so, his comment underscored a gap between the conservative new Israeli government and the Obama White House on a series of questions, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Iran.
While the Obama administration has made a series of recent overtures to Tehran, the Israelis have grown more confrontational out of concern that the Islamic Republic's increasing nuclear know-how could one day become an existential threat.
Netanyahu signaled several times during his election campaign that he would not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. "I promise that if I am elected, Iran will not acquire nuclear arms," he said in one appearance, "and this implies everything necessary to carry this out."
With his brief comment Tuesday, Biden became the highest-ranking administration official to caution the Jewish state against a military strike. In the interview, Biden was asked whether he was concerned that Netanyahu might strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
"I don't believe Prime Minister Netanyahu would do that. I think he would be ill advised to do that," Biden said.
"And so my level of concern is no different than it was a year ago."
But many U.S. officials believe Israel is serious. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of U.S. forces in the Middle East, told senators this month that the Israeli government may be "so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it."
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(Rimshot!)
Hey Joe, screw you.
Netanyahu on phone: “Thank you very much Mr. Biden.”
Heard in background: “(Hey David. You ready to push the button?)” (Yeah.) (Push it!)”
Biden: “OH, SH*T!!!”
Probably means it, but it’ll give him the ability to deny when Israel does what it must.
Sic em’ Bibi.
Has Biden been hitting the bottle lately?
Here is another....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224584/posts
I am beginning to wonder if Obama is really the Anti-Christ? I still can’t understand how and why so many Jewish-Americans voted for this guy.
God help us all for I think things are going to get very interesting (if not scary) very soon.
Just quote Biden, when he told us all that Obama would be tested.
Obama is doing the wrong thing, trying to discourage an Israeli attack of Iran.
Things have been scary since Nov 4 2008 and getting worse with each passing day.
I'll issue a high-level admonishment to Biden for the American People that it would be "ill advised" to screw with Israel.
We'll go all "Onward Christian Soldiers" on you, just that quick.
True. But if and when Israel decides to strike Iran, then all Hell will break loose.
So be it.
thank goodness for our more conservative allies in office - Bibi, Merkel, Sarkozy and Harper in CA. I miss Howard in Oz too.
Sarkozy and Merkel were livid when O tried to push Turkey into the EU. His Islamic mask is slipping.
That's because many people are clueless as to why out of control spending is bad.
An attack on Iran by Israel would cause serious problems for our troops in Iraq especially among the shias. Biden’s statements taken with Obama’s words of appeasement to the Arab world may be an attempt to mitigate some of those problems.
I think in order for Israel to survive, it is going to have to play the game the palestinians have been playing - i.e. be a pain in the ass of the world. They’re going to have to be the new bad-boys, but play the role of victims.
They should go ahead and strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, create a new reality that forces europe and the US to pick sides - will they surrender to islam or have the courage to stand by their values? If they side with islam, the US and europe will go down with israel.
Indeed. But unfortunately, Obama and England's Brown represent the lion's share of the military might of the West. Netanyahu will be largely alone. That will not stop him though, unless he feels he can wait fo Conservative support from America or Britain (which he cannot).
The War of Magog approaches. I always wondered how the US and Britain could be sidelined for that event.
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