| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject: Bush doesn't fear attack on Iran: Israeli envoy |
| Bush doesn't fear attack on Iran: Israeli envoy
Wed Nov 15, 3:44 AM ET
President Bush will not hesitate to use military force against Iran if other options fail, Israel's outgoing ambassador to the United States said in an interview published on Wednesday.
"I know President Bush well ... From his standpoint, a nuclear Iran, ayatollahs with a bomb, is unacceptable," Danny Ayalon told Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper.
"I have been privileged to know him well, he will not hesitate to go all the way if there is no choice."
Concern over Iran's atomic ambitions figured prominently in talks in Washington this week between Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
The U.S. and allies including Israel have accused Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian energy program. Iran denies the accusation.
Ayalon, who has spent the past 4-1/2 years in Washington, said Bush would continue to pursue diplomatic efforts for now, and failing that would chose to try to isolate Iran via sanctions.
But if that tactic also failed to stem Iran's nuclear plans, Ayalon said Bush would likely use air power combined with limited ground forces to attack Iran.
"Anyone who knows President Bush knows that he is very determined. He is convinced of the moral supremacy of democracies over dictatorships ... If the sanctions succeed, all the better. Otherwise, he will act by all means possible, including military action," he said.
In public, Bush has said he backs a diplomatic solution with Iran but has refused to rule out a military strike.
The Islamic republic has said it is willing to talk to the U.S., but that Washington must first "change its attitude."
Asked if the United States would be capable of taking military action against Iran, given that it is already engaged in a debilitating conflict in Iraq, Ayalon said:
"This is not an operation on the same scale. There is no intention of employing large ground forces. That is not the model. This is more a case of employing air power combined with limited ground forces."
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/16/1451242
Bush administration would be open to bombing North Korea and Iran
In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today his government is nearing the “final step” in developing its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad did not provide details. He’s already announced Iran will celebrate its “right to nuclear technology” by the end of the Iranian year in March. His comments come two days after an unidentified senior US official told the Reuters news agency the Bush administration would be open to bombing North Korea and Iran. The official said: "We, the United States, and others who might be threatened by these developments will have to look at how to respond and inevitably I think people will have to look at the question of pre-emption."
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Jewish JINSA/PNAC Neocons want Iran to be bombed next for Israel:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2006/11/13/jewish-jinsa-pnac-neocons-want-iran-to-be-bombed-next.php
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Jewish 'American' AIPAC diplomat handling Iraq after Iran and Syria for Israel
This Jewish 'American' diplomat (David Satterrfield) with the US State Department is currently sitting with General John Abizaid in a Congressional hearing on Iraq (Satterfield is a rabid Israel firster and is even associated with the ongoing AIPAC spying for Israel espionage case, and the US pro-Israel biased US press/media isn't even covering such either):
Prominent Mideast analyst associated with AIPAC espionage:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/08/31/prominent-mideast-analyst-associated-with-aipac-espionage.php
How can one say that the Iraq war wasn't/isn't for Israel when you have this Satterfield handling the diplomatic situation in Iraq. In addition, he has helped to cover up Israel's treacherous attack on the USS Liberty as well (can see him open the State Department panel on the USS Liberty panel via the 'Six Day War'/USS Liberty' link near the bottom of http://www.irmep.org and can read more about the USS Liberty attack via http://www.ussliberty.org as John 'Israel first' McCain has helped to perpetuate the USS Liberty cover-up for many years as well):
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
By: ISRAELFIRSTERTRAITORS on November 15, 2006 at 12:40pm
Satterfield was just warhawking against Syria and Iran (in accordance with the 'A Clean Break/war for Israel agenda that Bamford discribes via the following URL):
'A Clean Break'/war for Israel agenda from James Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/02/11/a-clean-break-from-james-bamford-s-a-pretext-for-war.php
Israel's influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O125hGt9qt4&NR
AIPAC and the Neocon (War for Israel) agenda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rf16XjbOUs
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The Highjacking of a Nation
By SIBEL EDMONDS
In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington warned that America must be constantly awake against "the insidious wiles of foreign influence since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
And in 2006?
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/805EFABB-384D-4854-ACA1-D4249D6483F7.htm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
9:25 MECCA TIME, 6:25 GMT
Olmert reassured after Bush meeting
Olmert and Bush met in Washington
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, says he has been reassured of US support for Israeli interests following discussions with president Bush following the Democrat's victory in midterm elections.
Olmert also stressed his support for US-led efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
He said: "Every compromise that will stop Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilties which will be acceptable to president Bush will be acceptable to me."
After their meeting, Bush said: "If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it will be incredibly destabilising and obviously threatening a stong ally."
Olmert's visit to Washington gave Bush a chance to redirect his attention to foreign policy after his Republican party's losses in congressional elections.
Nuclear weapons
There has been speculation in the US that Bush, weakened by the election results and setbacks in Iraq, might try to complete his term in office with progress on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Olmert has appeared confident that there will be no change in the relationship between the US and Israel.
Olmert told reporters on the flight to Washington: "Support for Israel traditionally has been bipartisan. I don't see anything changing in the next two years that can alter the balance of feeling toward us."
The US and Israel accuse Iran of developing its uraniam enrichment programme in order to acquire nuclear weapons, although Iran says it intends to use the programme purely for electricity generation.
Before his return to Tel Aviv, Olmert had previously told reporters: "If someone wants to reach a compromise with Iran, he must understand that Iran won't be ready to do so unless it is afraid.
"Israel has various options which I am not prepared to discuss."
'Swift response'
Iran warned on Sunday that its Revolutionary Guards would respond swiftly if Israel attacked it.
Mohammad Ali Hosseini, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, said: "If Israel takes such a stupid step and attacks, the answer of Iran and its Revolutionary Guard will be rapid, firm and destructive and it will be given in a few seconds."
Olmert said in an interview broadcast on Israeli television on Monday: "I am not looking for wars. I am not looking for confrontations. I'm looking for the outcome.
"This campaign will be tested in only one way - whether it will succeed to stop Iran from possessing nuclear weapons."
Speaking at the Simon Wiesenthal Tolerance museum in Los Angeles shortly before his departure on Wednesday, Olmert said: "We will do what needs to be done [to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons].
"I am happy to say after meeting president Bush that he shows the same attitude, the same conviction and the same commitment."
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| ISRAEL LOBBY SAYS PENTAGON ‘INFILTRATED’
HOSTILITY TO ZIONISM SEEN AS ‘MAJOR THREAT’
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon__infiltrated_.html
By Michael Collins Piper
Aleading voice of the pro-Israel lobby is pushing for an old-style “witchhunt”—under the guise of “homeland security”—to identify (and expel) individuals in the U.S. government and our military who are suspected of being hostile to Israel.
The call for a witch-hunt is based on the outlandish thesis that “Islamo-fascists” and Muslim “jihadist” operatives and, perhaps more particularly, their “sympathizers”—however loosely defined—have infested America’s defense, national security and federal law enforcement community.
The witch-hunt was proposed in the fall 2006 issue of the small-circulation—but highly influential—Journal of International Security Affairs published by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). JINSA has been one of the frontline forces in the fanatically pro-Israel “neo-conservative” circles directing foreign policy under George W. Bush.
Not only Vice President Dick Cheney, but also UN Ambassador John Bolton, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy Board—to name just a few big Bush administration names—have all been associates of JINSA.
University of Pennsylvania Prof. Edward Herman has described JINSA as “organized and [run] by individuals closely tied to the Israeli lobby and can be regarded as a virtual agency of the Israeli government.”
What first appears as commentary in JINSA’s Journal often leads to very real policies carried out by the Bush administration alone and sometimes in concert with Capitol Hill which some critics have been known to cynically call “Israeli occupied territory.”
The JINSA call for a witch-hunt came in the context of a series of commentaries on “21st Century Allies . . . and Adversaries” for the United States and Israel, which two nations, of course, are seen in the JINSA world view as virtual extensions of one another.
Zionist publications regularly assert that “anti-Israel” sentiments must automatically be seen as “anti-American” and even as “anti-Christian” in nature, a theme first loudly propagated by the American Jewish Committee’s Commentary magazine.
The commentaries, not surprisingly, named such countries as Iran, Syria, Russia and Venezuela, as possible “adversaries” for the U.S.-Israel Axis. However, it was an article by Walid Phares—who is associated with a Zionist lobby front known as the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies—which made the suggestion that there are very real “adversaries” on American soil, at high levels in the American military and intelligence establishment. In his article “Future Terrorism—Mutant Jihads,” Phares asked:
“How deeply have jihadist elements infiltrated the U.S. government and federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and various military commands, either through sympathizers or via actual operatives?”
Although posed as a loaded question, Phares’s implication was clear: he believes such a “threat” exists. The JINSA writer then proclaimed the need for a “national consensus” that requires “confronting these forces” based on “knowledge of their ideologies, objectives and determination.”
Since there are few Muslim Americans or even Arab Americans in any substantial numbers in the FBI, Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, etc, the suggestion that “jihadist” elements have “infiltrated” our government might seem silly to the average American.
But in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the real concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the FBI and the CIA and in the military who are getting “fed up” with Zionist power in America. Top military leaders openly dismissed the need for war against Iraq and Iran, both wars of which have been long-time policy plans of the Zionist lobby. And all of this, in the view of the JINSA sphere, constitutes effective collaboration with and sympathy for the dreaded “jihadists.”
For example, on May 11, 2005, the New York-based Forward, a leading Jewish community newspaper, reported that Barry Jacobs of the Washington office of the American Jewish Committee said he believed there are high-ranking officials inside the U.S. intelligence community who are hostile to Israel and are waging war against pro-Israel lobbyists and their neo-conservative allies in the inner circles of the Bush administration.
Citing the ongoing FBI investigation of espionage by officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading pro-Israel lobby group, Forward reported that Jacobs believes, in Forward’s summary, that “the notion that American Jews and Pentagon neo-conservatives conspired to push the United States into war against Iraq, and possibly also against Iran, is pervasive in Washington’s intelligence community.”
Obviously, with such thoughts running rampant in pro-Israel circles, it is inevitable a leading pro-Israel policy group such as JINSA would raise the specter of “infiltration” by those who are seen as “sympathizers” and suggest that they be purged from their positions in government agencies.
So the threat of a witch-hunt happening is real. Despite differences between the Bush administration and its Democratic foes, both come together in one realm: satisfying the Israeli lobby which funds both Democrats and Republicans alike through a network of political action committees and exercising its clout on Capitol Hill through pressure groups such as the APIAC, the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League.
It is ironic that JINSA should be the source of a demand for an investigation of foreign agents and sympathizers inside the American government. The founder of JINSA, Stephen Bryen, a former Senate aide on Capitol Hill, faced certain indictment on charges of espionage for Israel until pressure on the Justice Department forced Justice to back off.
Not only Bryen, but several others in the JINSA sphere were under FBI investigation on similar charges relating to their possible misuse of American defense and intelligence information on Israel’s behalf. They include:
• Richard Perle, investigated in the 1970s when he was a top aide to then-Sen. Henry Jackson;
• Douglas Feith, who—although later promoted to a high post in the Bush administration in 2001—was fired from the National Security Council of President Ronald Reagan; and
• Paul Wolfowitz, now head of the World Bank and former deputy secretary of defense in the Bush administration, investigated in the 1970s by the FBI on suspicion of passing classified information to Israel.
(Issue #47, November 20, 2006)
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JINSA Israel firsters: 'IRAQ DONE, IRAN LEFT TO GO':
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/04/06/jinsa-israel-firsters-iraq-down-iran-left-to-go.php
Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/04/06/neoconservatism-as-a-jewish-movement.php | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
