Ambassador to US: Iranian nuke could wipe Israel out in seconds

jpost ^ | Jul 4, 2009 | By JPOST.COM STAFF

[Flavius]

Recently appointed ambassador to the United States Michael Oren warned over the weekend that an Iranian atomic bomb could "wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds," and that the Iranians could "accomplish in a matter of seconds what they denied Hitler did, and kill 6 million Jews, literally."

[Redleg Duke]

And Obama would be “deeply concerned”.

[ken21]

yes, and privately as a muslim, cheering.

[Perdogg]

Since Israel is only 8 miles wide that is stating the obvious.

Was he saying in this in the context of a hypothetical nuclear weapon or is he confirming Iran has a nuke?

[detective]

In the next year or so a missile from North Korea will hit Hawaii or somewhere in the US. A missile from Iran will hit Israel and Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will apologize to the UN saying it was the right wingers in the US that provoked it.

[MrEdd]

Of course, Israel admitted to a 200 warhead nuclear arsenal at the time the Oslo accords were negotiated in 1998. And military think tanks focused on the middle east believe they have added between 25 and 35 additional warheads each year since then. Israel also has submarines.

I suspect Iran would produce a very, very empty map. And Jews from around the globe would resettle Israel

[eaglestar]

So now I understand why Israel is pushing so hard to expand their settlements. This way you disperse the population & territory making it less concentrated and settlements also create a buffer zones for the major population centers, a strategy which is defensive in nature.

[bgill]

Michelle will be declare this the second time she’s proud of America and her allies.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You don’t suppose that that would be a good thing, do you.

Why take the chance?

Since Israel has the means to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, with one or two well placed nuclear shots fo their own, I think they would be altogether justified in doing so. After privately offering Iran an ultimatum.

[wolfpat]

In the next year or so a missile from North Korea will hit Hawaii or somewhere in the US. A missile from Iran will hit Israel and Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will apologize to the UN saying it was the right wingers in the US that provoked it.

They'll blame right wingers in general, but specifically, they'll say it's Bush's fault.

[Dr. Ursus]

Hillary Clinton will resign within the next year!

[reagan_fanatic]

Israel has seaborne nukes. Should the mullahs attempt something so stupid, Iran would cease to be inhabitable.

[omega4179]

If Israel believes that then they should pre-emptively strike Iran.
Nukes are only good for prevention when you believe the other side does not wish to be nuked.

[MistrX]

Hillary Clinton will resign within the next year!

So she can run against obama in 2012.

[omega4179]

Iran would sacrifice palis to hit the settlements too. Remember, Pali are dogs to the Arab world.

[Quix]

The thick plot and the plot thickens.

BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.

Of course, Iranian nut jobs seem to have no clue at all what God has in HIS arsenal . . . nor who HE’s AIMING at! LOL.

[Quix]

Isn’t it incredible . . .

about how short a time ago, such an assertion would have been totally irrational . . . and how now . . . it’s not at all irrational.

Fascinating.

[Teacher317]

Another person with a poor understanding of nuclear impacts. Pakistan’s top nukes are only about 10-25 kilotons. Iran is still developing nukes. A one MEGAton (1000 kT) bast merely damages buildings and people at a radius of 4 miles. Israel is 8 miles wide at its narrowest point, but one BIG nuke cannot “wipe out” the entire country, and the odds are good that Iran’s first nukes will not be in the high-yield range.

[Quix]

I’m a bit skeptical about that.

I think she’ll either somehow end up replacing OThuga

or

be installed as the head of NORTHAM.

[odin2008]

I heard that Israel has neutron nukes. I wonder what these kind of nukes could do? If I was Israel, I'd hit them before they hit me, and not just hit them to scare them.. I'd clean them off the face of the earth.