Posted on 09/19/2007 7:13:31 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
The world, it's fair to say, doesn't like North Korea. Indeed, it's a tough country to love...It is also fair to say that the world...dislikes the idea of a nuclear Middle East. Witness French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's recent comment that France should prepare for the possibility of war over Iran's nuclear program... So ...what you get is a situation for which the international community has very little patience.
...that, according to foreign new reports, is what the IAF's excursion into Syrian skies the other night was all about: stopping the proliferation of nuclear capability to the Middle East.
While on an existential level, the prospect of Syrian President Bashar Assad - deep in cahoots with Hizbullah and Hamas - in possession of anything nuclear is deeply frightening, and if we believe the foreign reports, on a diplomatic level the fact that the world media is writing "North Korea," "nuclear cache" and "Syria" together in the same sentence could actually be beneficial for Israel.
...if the alleged IAF sortie over Syria had to do with a nuclear shipment from Pyongyang, then Israel's stock has to go up because it will be seen in a few key capitals as the force that will not allow nuclear proliferation in the region.
It is interesting to note the resounding lack of condemnation ... of Israel's alleged attack....the alleged North Korean nuclear connection will put Damascus - already not in the world's good graces - even more on the defensive.
It's one thing to harbor terrorists who want to destroy Israel, it's another thing to allegedly have been involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but it is something different entirely to get into the same nuclear bed with North Korea...
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
It would appear that there are some sane “moderate” muslims who recognize the threat to life for everyone that the Islamofascists pose, especially were they to posess weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear!
I don't hear squat from Iran either.
False.
The world dislies the idea of nuclear armed Arabs or Iranians.
The Israelis have been nuclear armed for decades. The world barely peeps about that, because the Israelis are not nuts. The Arabs / Iranians are.
Pakistan is close enough to nuts that the overthrow of Mussharaf by whack jobs would likely require a bombing campaign against their military, so as to eliminate the ability to nuke Israel and India simultaneously.
Iran warns Israel of ‘unimaginable losses’ if Syria hit
Jul 16 04:44 AM US/Eastern
Iran warned its arch-enemy Israel of “unimaginable losses” if it attacks Syria and vowed that it was standing by the Syrian people.
“We hope the Zionist regime does not make the mistake of attacking Syria, because extending the front would definitely make the Zionist regime face unimaginable losses,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
“Iran is standing by the Syrian people,” he said of the Islamic republic’s sole regional ally.
“We have offered and will offer Syria and Lebanon spiritual and humanitarian support,” Asefi insisted, reiterating Iran’s denial that it is providing military and financial assistance to the Hezbollah movement.
The Israeli army has said Hezbollah militants had used an Iranian-built radar-guided anti-ship missile in an attack on Friday on an Israeli warship off Lebanon’s coast.
The attack marked the Lebanese militia’s first successful strike on an Israeli warship, dealing an unprecedented blow to the Jewish state’s military. One Israeli sailor was killed and three more were missing, feared dead.
An Israeli military intelligence official has also alleged that around 100 members of Iran’s powerful ideological army the elite Revolutionary Guards were in Lebanon, acting as military advisors to Hezbollah.
Iran is a major backer of Hezbollah, but regularly insists that it only gives “moral support” to the Shiite movement.
“We have no Guards there. It is not true that we have sent missiles. Hezbollah is capable enough. The Zionist regime is under pressure,” Asefi said, repeating Iran’s denial of any connection to the attack.
He also hit out at the United States after President George W. Bush said Israel had “every right to defend itself”.
“The United States has had a destructive role by vetoing resolutions and hence encouraging the Israeli crimes,” Asefi said, referring to Washington’s use of its veto in the UN Security Council Thursday to block a resolution calling for a halt to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
“The United States should reconsider its policies and correct its wrong attitude of supporting the Zionist regime.”
On Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasted that Israel was not powerful enough to take on Iran and also warned against an attack against Syria.
“Thanks be to God, despite its criminal and savage nature, the Zionist regime and its supporters in the West do not have the power to look in the same way towards Iran,” the fiercely anti-Israeli president said.
“If Israel commits another act of idiocy and aggresses Syria, this will be the same as an aggression against the entire Islamic world and it will receive a stinging response,” Ahmadinejad said in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad.
The hardline president, who has calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map” or moved as far away as Alaska, has also compared Israel’s military strikes on Gaza and Lebanon to tactics used by Nazi Germany’s leader Adolf Hitler.
“Their methods resemble Hitler’s. When Hitler wanted to launch an attack, he came up with a pretext,” Ahmadinejad said Saturday.
“Zionists say they are Hitler’s victims, but they have the same nature as Hitler,” said Ahmadinejad, who has previously described the Holocaust of six million Jews in wartime Europe as “a myth.”
“We have two solutions for the crisis. One of them, which is a logical one, is that as you (Western nations) who imposed this regime by fabricating stories, you put an end to it and take it with you,” he said.
Ahmadinejad’s second solution was to have a referendum in which only the “true Palestinians,” decide their fate.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=060716084403.euo0z5mi&show_article=1
Thanks for doing the work I was too lazy to do. :)
To your point, the world is quiet about Israel’s attack on Syria because the Iranians previously vowed “Unimaginable” consequences to Israel for attacking Syria.
Iran is now shown to be all talk and no action.
Neither Syria nor Iran want to publicize their inability to live up to their threats.
“In the past Syria has just ignored these calls. But now, in order to avoid being seen as North Korea’s kid brother, it may have no choice but to pay a little attention.”
Typical Euro-weeny analysis. They actually believe that Syria will react to the threat of not being liked by the EU.
Iran will argue that you have taken their threat out of context. The threat pertained to the war in Lebanon.
The recent IAF action was not concerned with the war in Lebanon.
Actually, Iran and Pakistan will nuke each other a few months after Zombies appear in China.
Did you happen to see this little tidbit on that site?
Syria voted co-chairman of the IAEA
Two weeks after Israel’s alleged bombing raid in Syria, which some foreign reports said targeted North Korean nuclear material, the UN’s nuclear watchdog elected Syria as deputy chairman of its General Conference on Monday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency.
The 51st session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened in Vienna on Monday and will run through Friday.
The Syrian news agency SANA proudly reported the election on Tuesday, adding that Syria was also successful in including “the Israeli nuclear arsenal as an item on the agenda of the conference.”
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to keep one’s face straight. In a related story, “FOX ACCEPTS HEN HOUSE TOP SECURITY POST.”
“The Israeli army has said Hezbollah militants had used an Iranian-built radar-guided anti-ship missile in an attack on Friday on an Israeli warship off Lebanon’s coast.”
Hmmm, first I heard about this.
Israel = Doing the job that the rest of the World won’t do!
Official: U.S. tracking North Korea shipments bound for Syria
cnn | September 18, 2007 | By Barbara Starr
Posted on 09/19/2007 6:07:37 AM EDT by Flavius
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898794/posts
[YeeHaw! ‘cry baby’ Hezbollah’s mommy-]
Syria fumes as Arab world stays silent
Haretz | September 10, 2007
Posted on 09/10/2007 10:28:24 AM EDT by Posting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893955/posts
Analysis: Keeping quiet in order to prevent war
Jerusalem Post | 9/17/7 | YAAKOV KATZ
Posted on 09/17/2007 12:19:47 AM EDT by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897631/posts
Was Israeli raid a dry run for attack on Iran?
The Observer
Posted on 09/16/2007 8:16:23 AM EDT by UKrepublican
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897329/posts
‘Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment’
Jerusalem Post | 9/18/2007 | Staff
Posted on 09/18/2007 2:56:25 PM EDT by mojito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898490/posts
Sinking in the Polls (Osama bin Laden)
Washington Post | 17 September 2007 | Karen Hughes
Posted on 09/18/2007 7:33:02 AM EDT by shrinkermd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898266/posts
Syrian UN ambassador: Nothing was bombed in Syria, nothing was damaged
international.jpost.com | September 15, 2007
Posted on 09/15/2007 11:40:02 AM EDT by processing please hold
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897026/posts
also related:
Turkish intelligence assisted IDF in attack on Syria - report
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3449145,00.html
Posted on 09/13/2007 10:19:16 AM EDT by jhpigott
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895832/posts
Report: Turkey provided Israel with intelligence on Syria
Jerualem Post | 9/13/7 | JPost.com staff
Posted on 09/13/2007 11:44:16 PM EDT by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896247/posts
The hidden story of how Israel quietly and seriously kicked the ass of Syria last week
My blog | 09 11 2007 | drzz
Posted on 09/11/2007 6:46:29 AM EDT by drzz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1894470/posts
Just like in 1981, Israel is doing the job everyone else is too scared to do, except that in ‘81, every lib, Euro, Muzzie, MSM loon, red-diaper baby, etc. howled to high heaven. This time, strangely quiet (for now). I expect very soon the usual suspects will start howling, “protesting”, and generally making in their diapers about Israel’s action. The world in general just plain doesn’t like tough Jewish people that stand up and kick @ss to survive (but I sure like ‘em a lot!).
bump for best compilation
self-ping )...).....).......).........)
Good enough place to bump this thread. If it weren’t for these tough Israelis, we would have been staring down a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein.
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