Use twenty instead of ten.
Posted on 11/15/2007 1:03:18 PM PST by mojito
Israel is preparing for the possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, the Reuters news agency reported Thursday.
According to the report, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has instructed his ministers to draft proposals on how to cope with a nuclear Iran.
The report was later denied by a senior Prime Minister's Office official, Israel Radio reported.
The agency quoted a source close to Olmert as saying there were "long-term ramifications to be addressed, like how to maintain our deterrent and military response capabilities, or how to off-set the attrition on Israeli society that would be generated by fear of Iranian nukes."
Minister Ami Ayalon refused to discuss specific policy issues, but told Reuters that there was a need for a three-point strategy against Iran.
"First, we must make clear that this is a threat not just to Israel, but to the wider world. Second, we must exhaustively consider all preventive options. And third, we must anticipate the possibility of those options not working," Ayalon said.
According to foreign media sources Israel's defense strategy is based on the assumption that it is the only nation in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons.
Iran has denied accusations that it is after nuclear weaponry, stating that its atomic research was a means of acquiring nuclear energy capabilities. However, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has on numerous occasions called for Israel's destruction.
Israel has supported international efforts to stop Iran's atomic development through UN Security Council sanctions, and several Israeli officials have also hinted that Israel could attack Iran's nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails.
Reuters reported that Israel was developing its defense systems to fend off a possible Iranian attack. It added that Israel was constructing a fleet of German-made submarines which could possibly carry nuclear missiles, sending a clear message that there would be retaliation for any Iranian attack.
Is Israel pepared to keep a traitor like Olmerde in office?
I have a feeling Olmert may not be with us much longer....
I don’t understand his staying power to date...
Madness.
stick a fork in him, he’s done
“stick a fork in him, he’s done”
After all the criminal investigations and a botched war in Lebanon you’d think he wouldn’t have lasted this long. He’s like the Bill Clinton of Israel. Teflon coated!
Olmert may be ready to accept Iran having nukes, but I assure you that George W Bush will not, and he won’t leave the issue unresolved for his successor.
you still need a plan B. Bush could be blocked by those dems in congress and then there could be prez hillary in the waiting
Use twenty instead of ten.
Wish I had your confidence, GW's jaw, jaw, jaw, along with Condi Rice's performance, does not impress me all that much.
I’m not quite sure it’s as quite as it seems. Might be misinformation, to keep the mad mullahs guessing.
"However, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has on numerous occasions called for Israel's destruction."
Thing is, it only would take one or two nuclear explosions and there is no more Israel for the IDF to retaliate in behalf of.
RAFSANJANI SAYS MUSLIMS SHOULD USE NUCLEAR WEAPON AGAINST ISRAEL
TEHRAN 14 Dec. (IPS) One of Iran’s most influential ruling cleric called Friday on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only".
"If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world", Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran. [Source]
Should Israeli and American leadership believe exactly what they say?
Olmert is getting scary.
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Wouldn’t turning Israel into an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland a la Chernobyl, also frustrate Muslim wishes to reoccupy the territory themselves?
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