Posted on 01/24/2005 11:07:45 AM PST by anotherview
Last Update: 24/01/2005 19:25
Dagan: Egypt, Syria have nuclear programs, as well as Iran
By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
The head of the Mossad intelligence service, Meir Dagan, warned Monday that there are signs that several Middle East states other than Iran - including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria - are at varying stages of development of nuclear programs. Dagan, reviewing the security situation for the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, also warned that the atomic threat posed by Iran will soon reach the point of no return in a nuclear arms race.
The Mossad chief told committee members that Iran is attempting to lead the International Atomic Energy Agency astray.
According to Dagan, Russia is still helping Iran build its nuclear reactor in Bushehr.
In addition, Dagan said Iran is encouraging Hezbollah to carry out terror attacks in Israeli territory, and giving assistance to Palestinian terror organizations.
Peres: Iran is the central problem of the Mideast Vice Premier Shimon Peres, responding to reports that Tehran sought to foment terrorist attacks in order to foil a Israeli-Palestinian truce, said Monday that Iran constitutes the principal problem of the Middle East, and the center for terrorism in the region.
"Iran is the problem of the Middle East," Peres said.
"It is a group of people who have freed themselves from speaking the truth, who think that the means justify the ends, and who hide everything they do," he told Army Radio.
"It is the center of terrorism in the Middle East. It is trying to create a nuclear option with a religious coloration."
But Peres cautioned against Israel taking on the burden of confrontating Tehran.
"The Iran issue is a global one. Let the world conduct the war. How much do we need to take upon ourselves."
In any event, Peres continued, diplomatic solutions must be explored by Washington and others before any decision for military action should be taken.
And Israel knows that also...In my view, whatever is going to happen will happen within the next 4 years...
4 years? Why do you think it will wait four years?
I think it should have happened last year. Or ten years ago, we should have cleaned house then.
Peres has a newly made-up position with little or no power. He doesn't decide; Prime Minister Sharon does. If you had a successful constructive vote of no confidence (unlikely) you then run the risk that Labor could win an election. I much prefer Likud and Sharon.
OK. This means the world body that should take up this matter is the U.N. hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
LOL. Nice one, DS...
Thanks.
God be with Jerusalem! and the Children of Promise.
"Iran is the problem of the Middle East," Peres said.
That's part of the building of international support for regime change in Iran. My guess is, the regime change will come about because of Iranian opponents of the current mullahcracy finally gaining the international (US) support and recognition.
But yeah, Peres can't be trusted with a burned out match. And he wants to be PM.
Syria and Egypt (and most other not-too-neighborly neighbors of Israel) are preparing for another war against Israel. I fear that, as in 1973, the warning signs will be ignored by the alleged military intelligence people in Israel.
Israel has approved the moving of Egyptian troops and weapons up to the border. Syria continues its war by proxy, as does Egypt, through the Gaza terrorists. Iran and Syria (at least) have derivative missile programs, and Iran (at least) has an atomic bomb program.
The intifada reached a blank wall, literally and figuratively, with the construction of the Fence. That was a necessary step for Israel, but was the final impetus to produce this new, covert effort to resume conventional war.
The punishment to Egypt for breaking the treaty must be much more severe this time. Loss of the Sinai, obviously, but the Aswan Dam should be destroyed as well, and Israel should cross "into Africa" and take over the Suez Canal.
Syria should just be erased, along with Hezbollah, and its southernmost territory annexed (to control the water supply for Jordan; Israel agreed in 1994 to make up for water shortfalls in Jordan, and those water shortfalls were created by Syria).
Israel should let the US take care of the Iranian mullahcracy, and let al-Qaeda beat on the Saudi regime.
And the "West Bank" should then be annexed. If the Arab population of that area wants to stay, fine, otherwise, out they go, either to Gaza (which can become "Palestine", but more to the point, will remain isolated) or to Jordan.
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