Biden: Israel Agrees to Wait on Attacking Iran
Predicts Sanctions by End of This Month
ABC’s “The View” is hardly the place one would expect to find breaking foreign policy news, but it was today as Vice President Joe Biden sought to assure the show’s viewers that Israel wasn’t about to attack Iran.
“They’re not going to do that,” insisted Biden, adding that Israel had already agreed to hold off on such an attack until they see what affect the next round of sanctions in the UN Security Council will have.
Biden, as with every other official in the Obama Administration, insisted that the sanctions were a sure thing, and that the Security Council would move forward with them by the end of the month, or early next month at the latest.
Yet there have been no indications that Russia has backed off its opposition to the more onerous portions of the sanctions, and no indications that China has changed its general opposition at all.
It mustn’t be forgotten, after all, that the Obama Administration has promised sanctions ‘in a matter of weeks’ since Christmas, and has repeatedly underestimated the opposition in the Security Council to such measures.
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Druthers
April 23rd, 2010 at 6:19 am
Israel agrees to hold off! How graciously magnanimous of them.
It is like the mob saying we won't whack a gang rival until sometime next week and the police give them a gold star.
paulBass
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:27 am
“They’re not going to do that,” insisted Biden, adding that Israel had already agreed to hold off on such an attack until they see what affect the next round of sanctions in the UN Security Council will have!
christ, all that means is they are ready……
MoT
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:22 am
What kind of insanity is this! Agrees to wait? So that means they intend to go ahead and do it after… when?
E. A. Costa
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:56 am
The Iranians made a simple, far from grandiose statement: within two minutes of an Israeli or US attack on Iran 11,000 missiles would be fired at Israel and at US positions across the Mideast,.
Unstated: land and sea.
And that would be only beginners.
Torpedo
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Unbelievable.
One can only hope that if this true that both the state of israel and the u.s.of Insanity get the blowback they really deserve.
stevieb
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I'm wondering if Hezbollah would launch it's missiles too(after an Israeli attack on Iran) – or whether with it's larger role in the Lebanese government would put paid to that?
stevieb
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:23 pm
If Israel attacks Iran – how would China and Russia react?
An Israeli attack rests on whether or not 'biting' sanctions are leveled at the Islamic Republic(apparently) – China and Russia appear not to be to keen on sanctions.
Will China see an attack on Iran as an American attack on it's interests? Or Russia?
China can hurt the U.S in many, many ways. That might be the spark that pushes them to do just that…
Bonnie
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:59 pm
I'm sick and tired of israel. It's been provocking others since its conception.
That shitty litle country can go to war, as long as they leave our kid soldiers out of it.
israel would DARE say a PEEP- it's the U.S. weren't defending it.
Go to it israel! ALONE!
Bonnie
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I'm sick and tired of israel. It's been provocking others since its conception.
That shitty litle country can go to war, as long as they leave our kid soldiers out of it.
israel would NOT dare say a PEEP- it's the U.S. weren't defending it.
Go to it israel! ALONE!
It's time you learned a lesson.
donna
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
The fact that the vice president of the US can even make a statement like this is insane. He should have been threatening to cut off all aid to that criminal state if it dared send a single missile across its borders. Who is exposing the "Israel-firsters" in our government?
E. A. Costa
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
It is clearly established that both the US and Israel are being run by incompetents who are also lunatics.
The latter lunacy the lunatics may think they are putting on as a act and a mask to inspire fear, after Nixon's well known tactic.
But behind the lunatic act and mask there is in both cases another, deeper and even more vicious and incompetent lunatic.
Smiddy
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:33 pm
kind of rich that comment… coming from a country that's been whingeing like a kingsize fanny for the last five years, cos it thought someone made a threat to them….
Chad
April 24th, 2010 at 1:49 am
America's enemy is not Iran,our enemy is Israel draging us from war to wars,and our political prostitutes who are on the payroll of AIPAC
davy
April 24th, 2010 at 3:31 am
our beloved country has been contaminated by whores. Next time you vote pick whores who would
prostitutes their time and office to serve USA not eat Israeli kosher shit every day .and pretend that
without Israel we will all die of starvation.
AntiLieGuy
April 24th, 2010 at 5:06 am
On 10-10 the neocons will do another false flag as a pretext to invade Iran with the nuke they stole in 07 and that same day America will be totally destroyed by Russia, China and the SCO. This is the war of Armageddon and you can know it is now by all the earthquakes and the chemtrails sprayed every day globally to hide the sign in the heavens — Planet X! News here:http://www.scribd.com/doc/16612974/War-News andhttp://www.xfacts.com
AntiLieGuy
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:08 pm
On 10-10 the neocons will do another false flag as a pretext to invade Iran with the nuke they stole in 07 and that same day America will be totally destroyed by Russia, China and the SCO. This is the war of Armageddon and you can know it is now by all the earthquakes and the chemtrails sprayed every day globally to hide the sign in the heavens — Planet X! News here:http://www.scribd.com/doc/16612974/War-News andhttp://www.xfacts.com
pete thommes
June 16th, 2010 at 9:40 am
israel will never be openly criticized by the u.s. we are too pussywhipped & besides irael owns us. i caanot believe how we kowtow to them.
pete thommes
June 16th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
good point chad. i dont want to sacrifice my grandsons to fight for israel.
pete thommes
June 16th, 2010 at 9:50 am
good point bonnie ithink the american people are getting sick & tirerd of israels bullshit. unfotunatly our politicians get their money from the wealthy jews. i am not anti semetic but i am anti-zionist. how would any of us like it if somebody could just take your home and land because they claim god gave it to them 4000 yrs ago. who said so charlton heston?. any way it will never change because israel controls us.