Posted on 02/02/2012 4:40:57 PM PST by Eleutheria5
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is "a strong likelihood" that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June, according to the Washington Post's David Ignatius.
Israel believes that after this time, Iran will have entered a “zone of immunity” that will enable it to build a nuclear bomb at its leisure, Ignatius wrote. Defense Minister Ehud Barak used the same words Thursday in his speech at the Herzliya Conference.
"Very soon,the Israelis fear, the Iranians will have stored enough enriched uranium in deep underground facilities to make a weapon — and only the United States could then stop them militarily," explained Ignatius. The U.S., however, does not intend to hit Iran until it has intelligence that Iran is actually building a bomb, and "Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to leave the fate of Israel dependent on American action..."
When Barak asked last month to postpone a planned U.S.-Israel military exercise, he may have been signaling that an Israeli attack is imminent, the senior journalist wrote. Barak "apologized that Israel couldn’t devote the resources to the annual exercise this spring."
President Obama and Panetta cautioned Israel against an attack, because they believe it would derail "increasingly successful international economic sanctions" against Iran.
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My linebreaks have disappeared again.
Shut your pie hole, Panetta. If you won’t help Israel do the dirty work of protecting the world, at least get out of the way.
No kidding. Pretty soon we'll be helping the Muslim Brotherhood get nukes too, that we can count on. Then there's Pakistan...
Israel is not big enough to absorb a massive first strike and no one should expect them to do so.
They can't even count on Obama to come to their aid in case of attack.
Of course they’re planning to strike. There’s only so much workplace accidents can do.
Obama will give them whatever they need.....in their fight for a caliphate and the destruction of the west.
America needs to face up to the facts.
Left to these idiots there will be no America, just Chaos.
Exact same message was leaked to David Ignatius and Barbara Starr today. Starr said it was based on intelligence, and the ‘source’ reminded her that the US carries outs intelligence operations all over the world, including against Israel.
Yep. Look at the pattern leading up to the operation against the Iraqi reactor. Almost identical. Mysterious assasinations, explosions, accidents. But it wasn’t enough. You know the rest.
Nothing for Iran to be concerned about.
This is just the Obama administration creating justification to make a pre-emptive strike on Israel before Obama gets booted out of the White House.
Israel must do allit can to defend itself. It’s clear the present occupier of the WH has no intention of giving Israel aide so he needs to get out of the way. If anything, he will back muslims in their quest to defeat Israel. This bears watching.
why would they bother to tell the US ahead of time, we would just screw it up for them
Israel has to do this soon, so let it happen. Hussein will cry because his brothers are getting attacked - tough cookie.
LLS
But the Iranian mullahs and their main trading partner (Italy) would surely want to know something more specific than “April, May or June,” and it’s likely that their US bipartisan political constituents and leaders will provide the info for them.
No! No! In the Summer
When Dumbo gets dumber
So let’s feed them bogus goods
So they can’t stop us
At all.
Except that there are lots of reactors, many underground in hardened bunkers, and Iran is damned hard to get to from Israel.
Lerner and Loewe are not happy with your parody.
Yeah. I ought to be working with the original lyrics. Tomorrow, though. Must sleep.
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