Posted on 03/11/2006 5:34:24 PM PST by Esther Ruth
British FM: Israel and Iran Both Potential Threats 23:51 Mar 11, '06 / 11 Adar 5766 By Ezra HaLevi
England's Foreign Minister Jack Straw says that the world should worry about disabling Israel's nuclear capabilities as much as it is concerned with preventing Iran from going nuclear.
Straw said Thursday that Britain is seeking a "nuclear-free Middle East." He said that Iran and Israel were the only two countries left that posed "potential threats" now that Iraq and Libya's nuclear aspirations have been neutralized.
The foreign minister, who has made headlines in the past criticizing the Jewish state, conceded that removing the Iranian threat was indeed more urgent than the Israeli one. "If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle East, you've got to remove that threat from Iran, including the rhetorical threat to wipe Israel off the face of the map," Straw told British Channel 4 television. "Once you've done that, then we can get on to work in respect of Israel."
Former Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon faced criticism from defense officials in Israel over the weekend after he spoke at the Washington D.C. Hudson Institute, saying the military option against Iran's nuclear project was viable. He responded to the criticism on Israeli television Friday. "I spoke about the West's military option," he said. "Whether it is U.S. forces, NATO or the Israeli army that deal with the Iranian capability - there is a military capability that would set back the program for many years.”
Meanwhile, Iran threatened Saturday to use its oil as a weapon if the UN Security Council imposes sanctions over its nuclear program. "If they politicize our nuclear case, we will use any means. We are rich in energy resources. We have control over the biggest and the most sensitive energy route of the world," Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
Iran is the second largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and has partial control over the narrow Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which crude oil is transported from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq to the world market.
Published: 23:30 March 11, 2006 Last Update: 23:51 March 11, 2006
You and Canard go *UK* yourselves.
You're just another histrionic British Queen, with the criminally queer predelicitions of a Know-Nothing Lib. Just because you're one of the more truly debased *u*k-head disruptors, don't flatter yourself.
You signed up solely to make a pitch for euthanasia ("I agree that it would be better for the law to be changed to allow an injection to be given in such circumstances."), and quickly progressed to your Happy Homo Family support ("Being raised by homosexual parents might not be worse for a child than being raised in a Council Care Home.")
Homosexual Agenda at the top of FR's home page does not signal approval, y o u w o r t h l e s s y o b.
You, Canard, are really nothing more than a Skinhead of the British Left. And if you think I'll let you pile that kind of crap on FreeRepublic without comment, you go right ahead and try that abuse button and you see which one of us is gone from here in a New York minute.
See there you go, that's more like it. Proper rage, and the usual repetoire of quoting things that don't even say what you say they say. 8 out of 10, still think there's room for improvement.
De-canard, (de-kə-nard) v. --
2. Removing pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia posts.
Yep you are right I can be a bit of a yob, but your American Military were more than glad to have me on there side, where there was a call for a yob
now go back and hide behind mummy you sniveling little snot nose nancey boy
Lip up, fatty.
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