Posted on 08/15/2012 7:24:14 PM PDT by Perdogg
A strike on Iran’s nuclear sites would spark a 30-day war with missile attacks on Israel's cities and as many as 500 dead, according to the Israeli minister responsible for preparing home defences.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
giving a timeline to war is fraught with danger
Somehow I think the new regime in Egypt will try and pig-pile when Israel and Iran get it on.
500 dead?
I think any such war would produce minimally 100 times as many killed. Perhaps 1000 times as many.
30 day? Careful there.
30 day? Careful there.
Egypt may, but when the Aswan Dam is eliminated I think they will have other things to worry about. 500 dead seems like a typo.
I'm pretty sure he is talking about Israeli casualties, not Iranian.
One possible exception to the no ground element could be the establishment of a FOB for refueling operations. If they did that, I'd take it as a sign they plan on running a lot of missions and pounding the Iranians back to the stone age.
Yes and gas will be $10 a gallon and a barrel of oil 300 bucks
When the Israeli Minister talks war in terms of 30 days, it is indicative of a serious military threat unprecedented in Israel's history and speaks to the seriousness in which Israel assesses the military and economic condition as being extremely dire.
Under conditions that the Minister makes reference to, the strain and burden on Israel to continue fighting and remaining victorious, I could not rule out the use of nuclear weapons by Israel in order to survive.
There is a precedent for what is required for Israel to employ nuclear weapons in war and that was in 1973 when the Egyptian Army was making great headway in the Sinai and Israel was rushing to keep the Egyptian armies from advancing that happened as Israel waited to respond due to the Yom Kippur holiday and Golda Meir's hesitancy, it was known that Israel had already began rolling out the aircraft equipped to fly nuclear missiles and that they were being armed
Yes and gas will be $10 a gallon and a barrel of oil 300 bucks
I wonder if there will be an impact on the price of oil and gasoline?
Think the original article claimed it was 500 Israeli’s dead every day they experienced mass rocket attacks from Iran, Syria and Lebanon. So 30 days of war means up to 15,000 dead Israeli’s from rocket attacks during the war. And that assumes no WMD was used. This is the casualty number they expect when they go to war.
“Yes and gas will be $10 a gallon and a barrel of oil 300 bucks”
No one is going to like paying this. I certainly won’t, and you won’t, either.
But the “cost of gas” for a time during and after the Israeli/Iranian “war” is going to be far less than the ultimate “cost” of the Iranians obtaining nuclear capability.
Israel is their closer target, but to them we are as a great (or greater) an enemy and the “rewards” of an attack on the United States to the lunatics there actually may be more desirable...
I think it is a timeline of how Iran may respond, not when Israel will do it.
Thanks Perdogg.
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