Posted on 12/15/2005 2:17:47 AM PST by F14 Pilot
ISRAEL urged the world to "open its eyes" to the Iranian regime and its nuclear programme after its outspoken president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the Holocaust as a "myth".
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman pledged that Israel had the means to defend itself and would not allow for a second genocide of Jews.
"Thank God, Israel has the means at its disposal to bring about the downfall of this extremist regime in Iran. There will be no second 'final solution'," Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin said.
"We hope that these extremist declarations will make the world wake up to the nature of this regime -- especially the fact that Iran's nuclear programme and its support of international terrorism, represents not only a danger for Israel but for the entire Western civilisation."
The comments came after Ahmadinejad said in a speech that "they have invented a myth that Jews were massacred" and said the Jewish state should be moved as far away as Alaska.
Ahmadinejad also caused uproar in Israel and the international community in October when he called for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map".
"We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime," foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev said to AFP.
"Israel is calling once more for Iran's nuclear programme to be submitted by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the UN security council" and for the imposition of sanctions, added Regev.
Ahmadinejad's comments reflected a "perverse vision of the world held by this regime and underline the danger should such an extremist regime have a nuclear capacity in the future."
Israel has consistently called for international action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, with its chief of staff Dan Halutz claiming yesterday that Tehran would have all the necessary knowledge to build a nuclear warhead within three months.
Israel is widely believed to possess around 200 nuclear warheads, making it the only nuclear power in the Middle East, although it has never admitted having atomic weapons.
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But the iron grip of the government institution of Iran, will require a bloody overthrow. If the Iranian people don't do it, it may be too late for any but a nuclear solution.
I pray the people of Iran are up to the task of overthrowing this oppresive regime before it is too late for the middle east and Persia.
Wow! THAT's Institutional Self-Delusion.
Mecca Medina Qom and not necessarily in that order. Israelis should waste them before the Muzz waste them. This is what the top Israeli councils are considering
My best to Sharon. May he prosper and blossom with God's wisdom.
Brain washed by Allah.
'Besides, their lack of support for the war on terror caused this idiot to get so uppity in the first place.'
You are absolutely RIGHT. Our Democrats weaken our message and our percieved reaction; letting them (Iranians, this time), think they can get away with it. The Dems' are too liberal to put spoiled kids on notice till it's butt kicking time!
'I wish the Israelis would let the world know that they've updated the Samson Option for a post-Soviet world. That instead of incinerating Moscow in response to an Arab attack, they now plan on dusting Paris and Berlin.'
Think so? That would be sweet justice...... for the Europeans are allowing it to happen.
Get real. It takes just two nukes to kill Israel. Iran gives Jihadists nukes to smuggle into Tel Aviv and one for Jerusalem. Arab armies and paramilitaries could then invade and take over. That's the end of Israel. Israel cannot destroy Iran with it's population of 70 million. Though it could in retaliation destroy Tehran, Qom (Shiite holy city) and key oil installations. In retaliation I would also wack Riyhad, Mecca and Medina - for good luck
"Ahhhhhh.......... the F-4 Phantom......physical proof that if you put big enough engines in a brick, it will fly..."
I worked on those in the 60's (Naval version) and we called them the "lead sled". Smoked like a dog too. I liked the A-6 better.
Sorry that is just rubbish, any sustained nuclear conflict will have a detrimental effect on child mortality as well as future fertility and child deformity statistics. This is not a welcome event, nuclear war is something that would happen as a last resort, not something to be cheered for. A conventional attack on Iran is far more sane and less damaging to the west.
Israelis didn't want Syria beyond the Golan.
Not relevant to their defense.
Egyptians put a real hurt on Israel those first few days.
The Egyptian army fought bravely this time, as most Israelis admit. They lost mainly because they violated
their own doctrine of not advancing beyond their SAM
umbrella (at the behest of Assad who needed help after
the loss of his armor in the Golan).
'Get real. It takes just two nukes to kill Israel.'
It's the old MAD plan: Mutualy Assured Destruction. The Arabs know they would suffer greatly in retalitation, including MECCA. I don't think they want their holy site melted, gotta worship that black rock! P.S. I think Kennedy and Hillary worship the black rock.....
Yeah, that too, kind of megalomaniac and religion-mania
all rolled into one. Do they have lithium in Iran?
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