Posted on 08/22/2015 1:49:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Jerusalem (CNN)Israeli leaders planned to attack military targets in Iran in recent years, but they were held back due to the opinions of other government and military leaders, according to an audio recording leaked to an Israeli television broadcaster.
One planned strike was canned after scheduling conflicts with a joint military exercise with the United States got in the way, according to the audio.
The recording with former Defense Minister Ehud Barak was leaked to Israel's Channel 2. It detailed three strikes Barak had allegedly planned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively.
CNN has translated the audio, which is in Hebrew. Barak, who also previously served as prime minister, acknowledged to CNN on Saturday that the recording is authentic, but declined to comment further.
In 2010, an Israeli military assessment put an end to the plans, Barak apparently said in the recording.
"At that crucial moment, essentially, the answer from the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) was that the accumulated capability does not meet the threshold of the IDF chief of staff that he can say this is operational," the recording attributed to Barak said. . .
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I sometimes disagree with Israel —I hate Pollard, for example.
But really, HOW MANY hits could Israel take? One, more likely ZERO.
Who could blame Israel for PLANNING...?
The job of militaries the whole world over is to cook up emergency plans.
So what?
In other words, due to Obama and Obama's uniformed flunkies.
And CNN says that like it is a BAD Thing?!?!?!
Actually, I'd be shocked if they HADN'T planned.
ISRAEL . . . Do whatever you have to do to protect Israel. Tell Junior Romper Pants to buzz off.
an audio recording leaked to an Israeli television broadcaster
Leaked audio: CNN—The Communist News Network
“leaked” is questionable because the CNN report says the release was approved by the Israeli Government Censor!
Does retard Obama think this will somehow help him in his quest to have his capitulation to Iran approved?
Well OF COURSE they have plans. You try to plan for every contingency.
But as the brilliant philosopher Mike Tyson once said, “everyone has a plan, until you get punched in the face”
Obama has been protecting the Iranian IslamoNazi dictators and their nuclear ICBM attack arsenal buildup for six and a half years already
this is a central part of the plan to expand the IslamoNazi world caliphate, and using American military protection and American funding for the task... was, and is... extremely clever.
Alas, pray for America (Iran’s Great Satan and number one target)
It detailed three strikes Barak had allegedly planned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively.Leaked by Zero and his cadre -- but clearly a major backfire for his surrender 'agreement'.
Well if they have any sense, OF COURSE they have a plan, or more likely, a series of plans…..and so should we. Anything else would be irresponsible. The military always has contingency plans.
Israel would be negligent if they weren’t constantly revising plans for attacking Iran, given’s Iran’s repeated threats against them.
And just where do we suppose this leak came from?
I put nothing past this administration. NOTHING!
A conventional attack should be last. The Israelis should be tearing Iran apart right now with unconventional attacks. And hopefully ones with plausible deniability.
Right now they should have hundreds of saboteurs in country, that on command should be able to knock out Iran’s power, water (dams), food, communications, transportation, and throw its cities into chaos.
If they want to launch a conventional attack, *that* is when to do it.
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