Posted on 07/16/2009 5:57:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
Iran: Western officials are reportedly offering Israel a deal to support a military strike on Iran in exchange for Israeli concessions on a Palestinian state. Even diplomats now realize diplomacy won't pre-empt nuclear terror.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, according to diplomatic sources, offered "concessions on settlement policy, Palestinian land claims and issues with neighboring Arab states, to facilitate a possible strike on Iran."
A British official said that under such an agreement between Israel and Western nations, an Israeli military operation could become a reality "within the year."
If this really is the new stance of the same European powers that for years now have believed that fanatics like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei can be persuaded by half-hearted sanctions and offers of economic aid, then it sure has taken long enough for them to see the light.
And even if Israel cannot cut a deal with them on a Palestinian state, the fact that they're willing to accept military action against Iran is an admission their so-called "tough diplomacy" has been failing all along.
Apparently, a whole series of realities have come crashing down on the wishful thinkers.
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“Thanks, but we don’t really need to give anything away to secure our own right to exist, now do we. Have you read ‘Atlas Shrugged’, by chance?”
Israel better keep its plans to itself. If Obama gets any hint of when Israel strikes, I bet you just about anything that he or his administration will tell the Iranians.
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It does seem rather cynical, doesn’t it?
I vote we pay the Israelis to nuke Europe before they nuke Iran.
Give control of Gaza to Egypt.
Give control of the West Bank to Jordan.
Oh, I forgot:
The rest of the Arab World can’t stand Palestinians and they don’t want to have anything to do with them!
Exactly. I truly don't understand why it is still so taboo--even among conservative pundits--to address the blindingly obvious fact that Obama is genuinely anti-American, anti-Israel, and generally anti-Western Civilization.
“We will no longer seek to restrain you from protecting yourself against Iranian genocide if you agree to make us look good by helping the Palestinians commit genocide against you.”
The “world” can take its support and shove it.
Israel will sacrifice its blood and treasure to save itself AND the world from an Iranian apocalypse, and the “world” thinks they can extort concessions as well.
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