'Israel must consider ties with US when weighing attack on Iran'

Jerusalem Post ^ | 7/19/09 | HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

[Nachum]

Amid reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is heading to Israel next week for talks on Teheran's nuclear program, a senior US defense official has told The Jerusalem Post that an Israeli strike on Iran could be profoundly destabilizing and would affect US interests.

Israel needed to take its relationship with America into account in contemplating any such attack, he warned.

Gates, who last week described the Islamic republic's nuclear drive as the greatest current threat to global security, is set to spend six hours here next Monday, discussing the Iranian threat with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. He will also visit Jordan, according to officials involved in planning the trip.

[Nachum]

Hey, nice country ya got there...

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Rembrandt]

Israel is an independent nation. Israel needs to protect its own defenses; if it has allies, all the better. If it looks to the U.S. under Obama as an ally, it is out of luck. Obama is not a friend much less an ally of Israel. Israel must attack Iran because Iran is certainly planning to attack Israel and Israel would be foolish to expect assistance from Obama or any of the girlie countries in Europe.

If Israel suffers condemnation, how is that different from its past?

[rockinqsranch]

I think Netanyahu is making nice for Gates, thus Obama providing valuable time to listen to their hocus pocus, because there aren’t any choices other than to protect Israel.

They cannot count upon the U.S. under the alleged leadership of Obama, so they are compelled to do something on their own whether Obama, or the Euro-Weenies like it or not.

[trickyricky]

If a nuclear bomb goes off in Tel Aviv, what would be 0bama's response?

Military? No way Jose.

Words, words, and more words, while Israel goes the way of the Dodo.

I'm sure the Jews know that.

Question is are they willing to take the heat, do what needs to be done, and live,
or kowtow to zero and die.

[Jmouse007]

Israel needs to think about it’s very survival as a nation instead of worrying about what the Israel-hating Kenyan “president” in the White House thinks or says to them.

[SJackson]

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[TexasKate]

I don’t think Israel really cares much about its relationship with the US anymore thanks to Obama.

[4woodenboats]

In his interview with the Post at the Pentagon, the senior US defense official also suggested that Syria might be ready to "fundamentally" reorient its position toward the United States, which would include restarting talks with Israel, at a time when Hamas and Hizbullah have been put "on the defensive" by Obama administration policies and events in Iran.

...visions of sugar plums danced through their heads as the terrorists accepted $120,000,000 from Obama & Hillary to make more Jew kids dead.

[SunkenCiv]

Y’know, because the Obama administration has been improving US ties with Israel of late, and the Middle East has historically been rock-solid stable.

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