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No Deal - Will Israel Fight?
The Weekly Standard ^ | 12/2/2013 | William Kristol

Posted on 11/22/2013 7:59:10 PM PST by Cicero1234

But one can’t be optimistic about their chances for success in scuttling the deal. And one can’t be optimistic that the Obama administration will reverse course at the eleventh hour. Which means the last, best hope for stopping the Iranian regime from having nuclear weapons may well lie in a deus ex machina (if one may be permitted to use a pagan phrase for a Jewish state). It is Israel, not the great American superpower, that may well have to act to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions. And so the democratically elected leader of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will have to weigh his choices, with the burden of history on his mind and the judgment of future generations in his thoughts.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abcdehilnorst; iran; israel; lebanon; netanyahu; russia; syria; war; waronterror
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To: MistrX

Yes, and without support,it won’t be easy for them. They will be fighting nearly all of the middle east alone.


41 posted on 11/23/2013 4:50:32 PM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Alberta's Child

The Germans may have lost World War II, but it sure looks to me like the Nazis won

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If you saw Germany today—you would not think that the Nazis won.

Nobody who fought those wars won anything of lasting value—ie beyond a generation or two.


42 posted on 11/23/2013 6:43:59 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: cherokee1

True that!...again the amateurs are over playing their hand patting themselves on the back with a “secret” deal. Why does it have to be secret? It is obvious our government has been totally infiltrated by anyone with tons of cash. Scary times!


43 posted on 11/23/2013 10:08:25 PM PST by gr8eman (Bandying nice with wannabe commies is over! You're either for freedom or you're not!)
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To: Cicero1234

“Will Israel fight?”

I sure HOPE so! There is no time to lose.


44 posted on 11/24/2013 9:24:44 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Alberta's Child

I hereby apologize to Israel, on behalf of all REAL Americans. Many Americans suspect President Muhummad Al-Obama is a Kenyan, but few know Valerie Jarret, who secretly negotiated this “deal”, is Iranian. PERSIAN. Check Wikipedia or Google it.


45 posted on 11/24/2013 9:27:20 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Cicero1234

No, they’ll roll over and surrender.

/do I even need a sarcasm tag for this?!

As others have pointed out Israel doesn’t even need to bust the nuke-making facilities, which even the bean-brained Arabs know to have fortified to ridiculous levels. Even someone who’s played Command and Conquer knows that “no juice, no nuke”...the silo itself may be fortified to “Mount Doom” levels, but make a dozen power plants go boom and the missile becomes nothing more than a giant lawn ornament.


46 posted on 11/24/2013 10:56:19 AM PST by EternalHope13
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To: Cicero1234; All

It is only a matter of time...


47 posted on 11/24/2013 1:18:45 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Alberta's Child

That is actually a good point, but your optamism is overshadowed by your pessimism...

“Who cares?”

Well, I know a lot of Jewish people that do, and a family who I care about a hell of a lot that lives in Haifa for now...Working on a deal to get one of my best friends, and his wife and two daughters out of there very soon...

I feel for those that are not as fortunate to have avenues to pursue like this...He has fought the good fight as a soldier and policeman, and that he could make a good living over here away from those battles they have to face every single day...

But hey, that’s just my opinion, and what I am working on to support a small part of this war on evil...


48 posted on 11/24/2013 1:26:06 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: stevie_d_64

American Jews voted overwhelmingly for Obama. If they don’t care - and they clearly don’t as a group else why would they support Obama - then why should a nice Irish boy like me? I ain’t got a dog in that fight if they don’t.


49 posted on 11/24/2013 8:39:46 PM PST by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Alberta's Child

It’s mighty hard to argue with you about that.


50 posted on 11/24/2013 8:42:03 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Gluteus Maximus

American Jews...Well, I could almost imagine there may be some buyers remorse there, but then again, I’m kinda like you on that issue...They made that bed, now they gotta lay in it...

You know what I was illuding to in that post...I’m not supporting that because of their religious beliefs, nor because there is some guilty feeling I have towards those Jews in that part of the world...

I do it because he and his family are friends of mine...I just hope that when they do immigrate, I am not facilitating them getting out of the frying pan and into the fire in doing so...


51 posted on 11/24/2013 10:28:55 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: stevie_d_64
Well, at this point I'd say moving to Israel is a singularly bad idea. Obama is making sure that Iran gets the bomb. Once the Mullahs have the bomb, say buh-bye to Tel Aviv. Tehran will also be incinerated, but the Mullahs are religious fanatics who see that as a small price to pay.

American Jews are overwhelmingly Libtard. And as a group they're particularly virulent libtards. They provide a very disproportionate number of Libtard intellectuals, leaders, politicians, 'Rat party activists.

Screw 'em. Along with every other Demonrat fink POS infesting our body politic.

They're not my countrymen. I owe them no duty.

52 posted on 11/25/2013 7:43:13 AM PST by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Gluteus Maximus

Actually Matt Bracken has this down in a nice and neat Anthology, in that Tehran, will probably not need to be turned into a smoking hole in the earth...

If someone were to take out Mecca...Islamoc fundamentalists, and their violent jihadi’s would not longer have the fundamental means to justify their adheirance to a false prophet, if that “ground zero” became that smoking hole in the ground...

It may result in a few backlash attacks, but that would wane over a short period of time, and we would eventually prevail...

In Matt’s Anthology, available on Amazon, for your Kindle devices, is a great read, that will be added to in short order with additional essay’s and short stories...

It is some great reading, and those things already contained within that collection have been discussed at some point or fashion on Free Republic over the last few years...

I will not assume you have read or have even looked at some of his novels in the past, but his ability to convey ideas and personal, introspective musings is second to none, in my opinion...and it has nothing to do with personal relationships or compensation for my promoting this information source...Of which I receive nothing...And I am absolutely ok with that...I would refuse it anyway...And it would not be perceived as an insult either...

Take a look at that stuff, I believe you will end up being more in tune with yourself and somewhat entertained at the same time...

Let me know what you think...


53 posted on 11/25/2013 7:57:10 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Gluteus Maximus

Screw ‘em. Along with every other Demonrat fink POS infesting our body politic.

They’re not my countrymen. I owe them no duty.


I cannot agree with you more...


54 posted on 11/25/2013 7:58:43 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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