Posted on 09/25/2008 4:45:46 PM PDT by kc8ukw
Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites but was told by President George W Bush that he would not support it and did not expect to revise that view for the rest of his presidency, senior European diplomatic sources have told the Guardian.
The then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, used the occasion of Bush's trip to Israel for the 60th anniversary of the state's founding to raise the issue in a one-on-one meeting on May 14, the sources said. "He took it [the refusal of a US green light] as where they were at the moment, and that the US position was unlikely to change as long as Bush was in office", they added.
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Okay I give it eve of Feast of tabunlces
A conservative Likud Israeli leadership would not have to ‘ask for permission’ from anyone regarding protection of the county’s survival from the likes of Iran’s Russian supported butchers.
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