US Visits to Israel Seen Trying to Prevent Attack on Iran
Top US Officials Continue to Press for Sanctions
A flurry of US official visits to Israel recently, to culminate with next week’s high profile visit by Vice President Joe Biden, are aimed at reassuring the Middle East nation about America’s opposition to Iran, and to stave off a potential Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Concerns about the potential attack appear to be growing as Israeli officials express growing fury at America’s inability to push through international sanctions on Iran, with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announcing in Washington last week that he didn’t believe Israel needed to “coordinate” with the US on attacking Iran.
US confidence over getting the sanctions seems to be faltering, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying that it could take months to get a new UN resolution against Iran approved.
China remains steadfastly opposed to the sanctions, warning they will harm the diplomatic process. Russia has likewise expressed opposition to the Israeli demand for “crippling” sanctions, saying it would only support very limited additional sanctions against Iran.
US military officials have warned that an Israeli attack on Iran would be perceived as being backed by America, and that American targets would almost certainly be hit in retaliation. Vice President Joe Biden insisted last year that Israel was ‘entitled’ to attack Iran whenever it feels like it, despite the potential consequences to the US.
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carel thijsse
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:13 am
Understanding the past makes the future very predictable.
US Visits to Israel Seen Trying to Prevent Attack on Iran
March 1st, 2010 at 9:29 pm
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Claus Eric Hamle
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:47 am
An attack on Iran will likely mean the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It´ll be like 1932 again as one professor of History in Chicago wrote on these pages. We´ll rather go by horse than by car without 40 % of "our" oil. But that doesn´t matter to the Israelis of course. One good thing, though, is that the Pentagon wouldn´t have any more "reason" for the missiles on ships in the Black Sea in Bulgaria and on land in Romania and Poland by 2015. They´ll have to give up the project.
omop
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:47 pm
If there is one state that is having the most effect as to how fast the US will go over the edge its Israel and her fanatic manipulators in DC.
It will not be the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese or the so called Taliban that will defeat the US.
Eddie F
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Deep.. deep.. down inside the Israelis suffer from a lack of confidence when it comes to Iran…. this is just posturing… put out by the Israelis no doubt.
Jaime
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:21 pm
The US should make up its mind. At times some officials say that they are against Israel's attacking Iran, but immediately another comes out saying the opposite. It's really awesome to see American politicians being pushed around like puppets by Israel's lobbyists.
jeff.davis
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:53 am
For five thousand years, over and over again, the jews have been kicked out of one country after another,… or killed. Now we know why.
I’m an American and a jew, and when the next holocaust comes, brought on by the Zionists murdering million with their nukes — and then being themselves killed with nukes — I don’t want to be seen as any way connected with the zionist criminals, for obvious reasons.
If the zionists want to commit suicide by goy, let them. But I want to be left out of that, and if it means the US has to nuke the Israeli psychopaths, then lets get on with it. My Jewish heritage and blood is not a suicide pact.
bronstein
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:55 am
all crazy.
genocide makes people crazy.
and now that pretty much everybody is crazy to begin with, that leaves only a handful of people to drive crazy.
with more genocide.