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Obama Threatened to Shoot Down Israeli Jets Attacking Iran
Newsmax ^ | 3/2/2015 | Greg Richter

Posted on 03/02/2015 5:20:40 AM PST by HomerBohn

President Barack Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli planes in 2014 if they were sent to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, according to reports attributed to a Kuwaiti newspaper.

According to the website Israel National News, the Bethlehem-based news agency Ma'an cites Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.

Al-Jarida reports that the alleged threat from the White House forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel the planned attack.

An Israeli minister on good relations with the Obama administration reportedly tipped Secretary of State John Kerry to the plan and that Obama vowed to shoot down the planes when they crossed over U.S.-controlled airspace in Iraq.

Al-Jarida quoted "well-placed" sources saying that Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon and then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman made the plans for airstrikes after consulting top commanders.

In addition to the attacks, Netanyahu and his ministers decided to try to thwart any nuclear deal between the United States and Iran over fears that a nuclear Iran is a threat to Israel's existence, the newspaper said.

Israeli pilots reportedly trained for weeks on the mission and even were able to fly into Iranian airspace without being detected by radar.

-snip-Israel National News quoted a Daily Beast interview from 2009 in which former President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski urged Obama to take on any threat to Iran from Israel.

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Brzezinski even suggested, "No one wishes for this but it could be a Liberty in reverse."

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Netanyahu is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday over the Iranian nuclear threat. Most Democrats have said they will not attend and Obama has said he will not meet with the prime minister since the talk will occur two weeks from Israeli elections

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bamathreatensisrael; bathhousebarry; dogeater; idiotsavant; iraniannukes; israel; runningdog; shootdown; waronterror
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To: rfreedom4u

And look what such a war would be over!

A satanic, moronic parasite who eats, sleeps and sh*ts in the White Hut and isn’t entitled to do so.

With deliberation this petulant sociopath has completely ruined America, but almost half of the population believes this grinning ape is the greatest.

He’s demonstrated time and again that he’s on Iran’s side in any middle east conflict.


41 posted on 03/02/2015 7:38:30 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: SampleMan

Suffering through this grinning idiot’s speeches and reading about what he is doing to the country and his narcissistic behavior with a camera, I am reminded of an episode of the Simpsons.

In that episode, Bart gets a small digital camera and takes a picture of his ass.

I wonder if cupcake has done the same thing?


42 posted on 03/02/2015 7:41:55 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
He’s got their backs.

I think in his perverted little brain he would rather they have access to his.

43 posted on 03/02/2015 7:42:59 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: Hulka

Which takes us back to my original statement. We do not have static forces in place to engage an Israeli strike package, e.g. Patriot batteries and CAP.

Knowing someone is there and targeting them are two different problems. Simply knowing they are there only puts you 90 minutes ahead of the CNN news ticker.

I said we would have to conduct a specific mission if our intent was to engage them, and that’s the fact of the matter. Given the transit times and distances to northern Iraq from the Gulf or Med, it couldn’t be a reactionary mission. You would have to preposition tanker assets, and you would certainly want to get AWACS coverage of the area.


44 posted on 03/02/2015 7:43:57 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: ErnBatavia

Yeh I don’t think OMuslim has the stones to do something like that. It just does not sound like Obama plus shooting down Israeli fighters is not as easy as a bunch of dum azz camel jockeys.


45 posted on 03/02/2015 7:44:04 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SampleMan

“Which takes us back to my original statement. We do not have static forces in place to engage an Israeli strike package, e.g. Patriot batteries and CAP.”

Your original posting to me stated: “There is no way that we are capping the entire middle east, and why would we still be protecting Iraqi airspace?” and. . .”The areas of coverage would require multiple AWACS on station 24/7.”

Didn’t see a clear statement that you were positing anything about engaging, as the original poster stated the Israelis could fly undetected and I replied that simply is not the case.

Cheers.


46 posted on 03/02/2015 7:53:51 AM PST by Hulka
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To: McGruff

It needs to be posted 50 times. New, valuable comments are collected with each post, until or if we get new data.


47 posted on 03/02/2015 7:56:58 AM PST by txhurl
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48 posted on 03/02/2015 8:19:52 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: HomerBohn

And that is why his origins need to be thoroughly investigated. That means NOT by gov’t people but private organizations. The gov’t will only cover things up and hide them to cover their own butts because many are complicit in his shenanigans.

Every time they can’t access his documents they need to expose those who won’t release them and demand to know why not! And while doing so, make sure their life insurance is paid up. I don’t put anything past this regime, including murder of American citizens.


49 posted on 03/02/2015 8:51:12 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: bray

This should be a game changer—But the Progressive Left will not be happy until they impose a Soviet state on Evil Capitalist America and starve people into being fit! They know what is good for us and will impose their vision on the poeple. Obama is their President-for-life. He will never willingly step down. The Media will rip down ALL who oppose him until the very last. That will come when IS launches a huge attack and many thousands, if not millions, of Americans are killed. The, and only then, will the MSM rally in the face of danger.


50 posted on 03/02/2015 9:19:19 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: rfreedom4u

Trust in this central socialist government eroded decades ago and then....along came America’s first negro president who worked overtime to degrade whatever advances made by members of his race and butchering Americans and their government.


51 posted on 03/02/2015 9:20:04 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: Hulka
Our electronic methods would be tracking such a move from Israeli jets start-up, taxi, take-off, en-route, attack, post mission return.

Israeli Air Force is good, but not as good as US air forces. Red Flag and other exercises prove that when we have gone head-to-head with them.


And you don't think God has the ability to alter that capability?
52 posted on 03/02/2015 9:28:11 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“The Media will rip down ALL who oppose him until the very last. “

What can we do about the communist news media? Without them, Obama wouldn’t have gotten very far with his whole treasonous plan to destroy the U.S.


53 posted on 03/02/2015 9:45:28 AM PST by boxlunch
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To: Old Yeller

“And you don’t think God has the ability to alter that capability?”

?


54 posted on 03/02/2015 9:48:18 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

Disagree, on a couple of points:

First, regarding strike package generation/launch. The IAF jets will be uploaded in their shelters—won’t be detected by satellites. The load-out/marshaling/launch will be conducted against the backdrop of a major exercise; dozens of jets, launching, conducting various types of training and recovering over a period of several days. How do you detect the strikers when they’re using call-signs/IFF squawks similar to other IAF units?

As for the tankers, given them a commercial call-sign/squawk (probably for an air charter). They follow commercial flight corridors; the fighters switch comms and emitters “off” before joining on the tanker and go resolution cell, flying in a tight formation so radar paints a single return—and since most tracking is based on IFF, the only squawk will be from the tanker.

The IAF has a long history of conducting ops that we’re not aware of until the bombs start falling. Examples include the long-distance raid against PLO HQ in Tunis (1985) and the strike on Syria’s nuclear complex in 2008.

Most importantly, it is highly unlikely the IAF would route their package through Iraq. A flight path across southern Turkey or over northern Saudi Arabia is more likely (particularly if Riyadh is cooperating), or all the way around the Arabian peninsula.

We have good intel coverage of the region..but the key is being able to detect unusual activity that is designed to look routine, as practiced by an organization (the IAF) that has few rivals in tactical deception.


55 posted on 03/02/2015 9:51:43 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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