Posted on 07/25/2015 11:12:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks to Barack Obama, it is only a matter of time before Israel feels forced to conduct a massive military strike against Iran’s nuclear program. When that happens, Iran will strike back, and hundreds if not thousands of missiles will rain down on Israel. This exchange will likely spark a major regional war in the Middle East, and that could end up plunging the entire planet into chaos. If Barack Obama was attempting to prevent such a scenario from playing out, he failed miserably. Personally, I think that the deal that was just made with Iran is absolutely horrible. Perhaps you disagree. Perhaps you believe that it is the greatest piece of diplomacy of all time. But it doesn’t really matter what any of us think. If this deal was going to work, it had to be strong enough to convince Israel that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons has been completely stopped. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sworn that he will never, ever let Iran get a nuclear weapon, and he has pledged to use military force if necessary. So what Barack Obama needed was a deal that would calm Israeli nerves while satisfying the Iranians at the same time. Such a deal may have theoretically been impossible, but that is what it was going to take to prevent war. Instead, Obama has made a deal which has utterly horrified the Israeli government. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even called it “a license to kill“. So now the odds that war will happen have gone way up, but Barack Obama is too busy congratulating himself to notice.
And it isn’t just the Israeli government that has responded very negatively to this deal.
One recent survey found that a staggering 74 percent of Israelis do not believe that this deal will prevent the Iranians from developing a nuclear weapon.
A different survey discovered that 47 percent of Israelis would now support a military strike against Iran and only 35 percent of Israelis are currently against one.
Of course the Israeli government would very much prefer not to have to bomb Iran. Before resorting to military action, the Israeli government will certainly try to encourage the U.S. Congress to derail this deal. And we should probably expect to see more covert action against Iran’s nuclear program.
But in the end, those methods will almost certainly not be enough. At that point, the Israeli government will have a decision to make, and I think that the following exchange between Netanyahu and Steve Forbes gives us some insight into what Israeli officials are thinking right now…
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: I think if the deal goes through we’re in danger of war, and it might be the worst kind of war we can imagine. Because this deal will open the way for Iran not to get a bomb but many bombs. Within a decade it will be free to enrich uranium on an unlimited basis. And it will be able to make the fissile core for dozens of bombs–indeed, hundreds of bombs–which it can then put on the hundreds of ICBMs it already has.
Under this deal Iran is going to get $100 billion to $300 billion, which it will be able to use to fund its terrorism and its aggression in the region–its aim being to destroy Israel. Given Iran’s history of aggression, I’d say that this double bonanza of a guaranteed pathway to a nuclear arsenal and a jackpot of money to continue its aggression actually makes the danger of war, even nuclear war, a lot greater.
SF: You make a very important point. Even if Iran sticks to the deal, which is highly problematical, in a decade it will be a major global nuclear power, and it will have ballistic missiles.
BN: Iran is producing them, and guess what? Within a few years they will be able to reach the Eastern seaboard of the United States. And then every point in the United States. But this deal will also enable Iran to tip those missiles with nuclear weapons, with atomic bombs. And I think it’s a huge mistake to allow the foremost sponsor of terrorism in the world, Iran, to have nuclear weapons, as well as the capacity to give such weapons to its terrorist surrogates. This is a big, big mistake. Not only endangering Israel and the entire Middle East but the entire world, specifically the United States. The mullahs, the dictators in Tehran, they call us the little Satan; they call America the big Satan. You are their ultimate target, and you should not give such a terrorist regime the weapons of mass destruction. Because I think the greatest danger facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons. Here you have a militant Islamic state, Iran, arming itself with nuclear weapons and receiving a huge cash bonanza in the bargain. That’s a mistake.
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Let there be no misunderstanding – as long as Benjamin Netanyahu is in power the Israeli government will never, ever allow Iran to build nuclear weapons.
This deal that Barack Obama just made with Iran guarantees the Iranians a path to a nuclear weapon, but the Obama administration is apparently hoping that regime change will happen before that time if they are able to kick the can down the road far enough.
But the big mistake that almost everyone in the western world is making when analyzing this deal is that they are assuming that the Iranians will actually keep their promises.
Just like the U.S. government, the Iranians have a very long track record of blatantly lying. And they were caught lying even in the midst of these recent negotiations. The National Council of Resistance of Iran produced evidence that the Iranians were enriching uranium intended for nuclear weapons at a site known as “Lavizan-3” just outside of Tehran. But even after this information came out, the Iranians and the Obama administration just continued with their negotiations as if this facility did not exist.
This is how utterly incompetent the Obama administration is. The Iranians were hiding things and blatantly lying to us before the negotiations were even completed. And the truth is that it is possible that Iran might already have developed nuclear weapons.
Let us hope that this is not the case, but if reports about Lavizan-3 are accurate, the Iranian nuclear program may be far more advanced than any of us have been led to believe.
Sadly, most people in the western world end up believing what they want to believe about Iran instead of what the facts on the ground actually tell us.
Not too long from now, I believe that we will see some sort of “trigger event” which will motivate the Israeli government to finally conduct a massive military strike against the Iranian nuclear program. Israel has a history of conducting these kinds of assaults, and the Israeli military has been preparing for just such an attack for a very long time. The following comes from a recent article by Joel C. Rosenberg…
Israel has used surprise military force twice to neutralize foreign nuclear programs. In 1981, the Israeli Air Force attacked and destroyed Iraq’s nuclear facilities. Then in 2007, the Israelis attacked and destroyed a Syrian nuclear facility being built with the help of the North Koreans. An attack on Iran’s facilities would be far more complex, and the possible retaliatory blowback could be horrendous. But yet, the Israelis certainly have the capability to do what they need to do, and they’ve been preparing for years for that moment. Given Israel’s historic track record, it is possible Israeli leaders will come to the point of feeling they have no choice but to launch attacks on Iran.
And just because Iran has made a “deal” with us, the American people should not assume that we have now become “friends” with the Iranian government.
In fact, the president of Iran recently led a march through the streets of Tehran during which the crowds were chanting “death to America”…
“Even over the weekend, as Iran continued to receive more and more concessions at the negotiating table, Iranian President Rouhani led a march of hatred in the streets of Tehran in which the masses cried, ‘Death to America! Death to Israel!‘” Netanyahu said, describing Iran’s recent “Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day” in an address to the Knesset Monday.
What a horrible thing to want. Even though I am very pro-Israel, I would never wish death to Iran. The Iranian people work hard, they take care of their families, and most of them want peace.
Unfortunately, Iran is run by a cadre of radical Islamic nutjobs that are obsessed with wiping the nation of Israel off the face of the planet.
For a long time, Israel and Iran have been on a collision course, and now time is running out.
War is coming to the Middle East, and it is going to be absolutely horrifying.
No nation has better electronic warfare assets than the Israelis.
They could probably temporarily mute the US ability to communicate with its own forces in the area. Not totally, but certainly considerably degrade them to the point of being combat ineffective.
They could likely shut down 99% of Iranian communications.
The could spoof their RADAR and other early warning assets.
And frankly they could employ EMP weapons to great effect.
But anything against Iran lets an ugly genie out of the bottle.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain etc had better be ready to fend off attacks from a staggering Iran and its allies.
peace?
bfl
Ever heard of “617 Squadron”?
I believe hussein seeks just such a conflict that would destroy the entire Middle East including Israel, and hopefully the United States as well.
I don’t believe he loves anything or anybody, and would just as soon see the world in nuclear flames that would even kill him too so long as he could watch it for just a little while.
Yes. I believe he is that insane.
Don’t worry about the Persians. God will sort them out.
Israel's best option is to make sure Iran's proxies are comprehensively defeated in the field -- IOW, Hizbollah, Hamas, the Assad puppet regime, ISIS, Iraqi shi'ite jihadists, the Houthi in Yemen, the so-called indigenous uprising in the Sinai, the regimes in Djibouti and Eritrea, etc etc -- but the jihadists continue to fragment and do more and more damage to each other, so the temptation is to make sure they continue to do just that. Israel has never made large, long-term commitments of troops outside of Israel, and there would be no political will to do so. Israel's best option is to make sure Egypt's regime wins in the Sinai and mops up the terrorists operating in Egypt proper. If Egypt falls again -- the first time was Obama's Morsi regime, which was allied with Iran via the former emir of Qatar -- Israel's first move will be to secure its northern border by destroying the missiles and storage bunkers and annihilating Hizbollah. Thanks SeekAndFind.
Yep. ICBM and cruise missiles attack. Save the planes for Obama and Russias pathetic counter attacks.
I am sure the Iranians would be able to dig out pretty quick. If the centrifuges are not destroyed (and the scientists and technicians killed), the raid is a waste of time, money, and political capital.
If’n I were the Israels... I would suss out the area around the refineries. I’m bettin’ the scientists and techies don’t live underground. If you don’t mind the collateral damage that might as much damage as hitting the fortified production facility.
Alternately, if the Israels really DO have support from the Saudis they might try an audacious commando operation in combination with the airstrike.
The scary part is the aftermath. Such an attack is pretty much a declaration of war against Iran. How will it follow up?
Yes....Obama Is the Big Satan. He knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
And for whom.
I don’t believe he loves anything or anybody, and would just as soon see the world in nuclear flames that would even kill him too so long as he could watch it for just a little while.
Yes. I believe he is that insane.
I am in wholehearted agreement with your assessment of Obama's mental health. As a devoted homosexual/coke addict he is demonstrably suicidal with overriding homicidal addictions.
Obama is the worse possible person to have in the position of Pres of the US. He will self destruct and will take as many with him as possible.
Has the US been at war with Iran since the embassy debacle?
Has Israel been at war with Iran since Stuxnet?
Does "Death to America" "Death to Israel" repeated thousands of times constitute a "declaration of war?"
My point is that Israel and the US have been at war with Iran for a long time. Where the continued conflict goes from here is the big question.
Obviously I am not privy to the thoughts of the Israeli and American leadership, but, Israel must think that Obama is leading the US to switching sides. This "agreement" is absolute rubbish and contains a clause which commits the US to defend Iran's nuclear industry. How is that going to work if and when Israel attacks?
Bomb Iran (To the tune of Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys)
Sung by: Vince Vance and the Valliants
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Let’s take a stand
Bomb Iran
Our country’s got a feelin’
Really hit the ceilin’, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks
Tell the Ayatollah, “Gonna put you in a box!”
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Our country’s got a feelin’
Really hit the ceilin’, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Ol’ Uncle Sam’s gettin’ pretty hot
Time to turn Iran into a parking lot
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Our country’s got a feelin’
Really hit the ceilin’, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Call the volunteers; call the bombadiers;
Call the financiers; better get their *** in gear
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Our country’s got a feelin’
Really hit the ceilin’, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
(Let’s nuke ‘em! Whoo!)
Call on our allies to cut off their supplies
Get our hands untied, and bring em’ back alive
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Our country’s got a feelin’
Really hit the ceilin’, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb Iran
Let’s take a stand
Bomb Iran
Our people you been stealin’
Now it’s time for “keelin”, bomb Iran
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
Written in 1980. Still applies well.
I only hope I’m wrong. But I don’t think I am.
We have maybe 45 - 60 days to fine-tune any preps one may have....
Correct.
There will be many surprised people. Those Secular Progressives will find out that their god, the government, is going to ne very lacking.
Old technology. No reason to risk a flight crew, especially when the operation can have “plausible deniability”. The Israelis might even ‘spice it up a bit’ with false evidence pointing the finger at someone else.
Importantly, an attack on Iran’s dams would be just one part of a massive unconventional operation. A “mad bomber” attack on their national infrastructure could foul up everything for months or years.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Odumbo made a surprise visit to Iran ala Bush and Iraq during Thanksgiving, only carrying fissionable material instead of a turkey.
Well DUH...Iran!....lol
Soros may have kicked in to the fund too...: )
That was my point. Iran doesn’t need to pay him. He’ll do it because he wants to.
That sounds like a 12th Imam believer. And with Obama, he just might have a messianic complex and think he can bring down the whole world.
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