Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered an investigation into alleged leaks of plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to reports.
The main suspects for the leak are the former heads of Israel’s intelligence agencies the Mossad and the Shin Bet, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin respectively. Netanyahu purportedly suspects that the two former agents leaked the information in an attempt to thwart an effort by him and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to push for a unilateral, preemptive attack on Iran.
Top Israeli officials familiar with the situation say that Netanyahu is and has been redoubling his efforts to convince the rest of his cabinet to back an attack on Iran, and that he has finally won over hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to his side. On Wednesday, Israel test-fired a ballistics missile immediately after Netanyahu warned of a “direct and heavy threat” posed by Iran’s nuclear program.
If the reports about the Netanyahu administration’s suspicions are true and Dagan and Diskin did leak the information to prevent an attack, which had moved from the stage of discussion to implementation, it would certainly be consistent with previous statements from the two. Back in May, Netanyahu and Barak condemned Dagan for saying publicly that a strike on Iran would be “the stupidest thing I have ever heard.”
“It seems that only Netanyahu and Barak know, and maybe even they haven’t decided,” Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, both respected Haaretz writers told The Guardian. “While many people say Netanyahu and Barak are conducting sophisticated psychological warfare and don’t intend to launch a military operation, top officials … are still afraid.”
"preemptive" appears to be a characterization promoted by Israeli ruling circles at variance with that of the editor, some readers therefore feel it ought to be put between quotation marks
First of all I don't trust a word that comes out of any of these people's mouths. If they really were planning an attack we probably wouldn't hear about it. So it's more likely they are trying to get us to put on massive sanctions or to get us to attack.
I have thought for years that the Af/Pak Iraq war was more about cornering in Iran. It just didn't go as planned. On the other hand it could simply be all about destabilization. In other words Israel can stay on top by keeping her neighbors fighting.
Silly boy they are working on getting us to attack and they will follow up and profit from the attack. The IDF cannot enter Lebanon without leaving a lot of dead. israel is out of water and they want to get the water of the latavi river and as a bonus they will steal the gas fields of the lebanon coast.
Israel has no problems with starting a war to get people attention off of what they are doing. Lebanon has big guns provided by Iran. Bombing Iran removes the source of weapons. Unarmed and defenseless is the preferred people that Israel likes to attack.
The New Red Herring in the mix is Turkey and what they will do! In all its wars Israel has NEVER had to worry about the second Biggest Military in NATO, a Millitary equiped with Identical weaponry to the Israelis and in large Numbers. Turkey has 2000 Main Battle tanks with 120 mm Guns, She actually manufactures F16s.
However short of using Ballistic missiles against Iran, Israel doesnt have the ability to attack Irans Nuclear Facilities, and there is a Huge problem for Israel, Iran ISNT like the countries that Israel usually attacks, they DO have Ballistic Missiles, they DO have Anti Aircraft systems in some cases the best in the World. Attacking Nuclear sites is in fact a War Crime, but have no fear Iran will strike in return at Dimona. Which brings up the Fallout problem, Russia has already said that it will consider it an act of Nuclear War if they receive Nuclear Fallout from Any country. If Israel sets of a Nuke she better be prepared for retaliation from Russia as well!
PAPER TIGER ISRAEL
If proof positive were to establish that helpless client state Israel had no nukes, was just a “paper tiger,” then who do we blame for misleading us so? Why, mainstream media all owned or funded by the corporate rich, as no government has ever made such a claim.
For Israel was created by Western Europe for but one purpose, to make trading war materials for Middle-East oil the best money maker the Western world has ever known. Surely and never has, never will, Israel ever be given deadly force sufficient to be any kind of threat to Iran or the West, or start a World War Three that would cremate-vaporize a great deal of real estate owned by the West.
> Israel was created by Western Europe for but one purpose,
I think Zionists would like to have a word with you.
> mainstream media all owned or funded by the corporate rich, as no government has ever made such a claim.
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I wonder how Jordan feels about the Israelis violating their airspace
and indeed their land.
Isn't that Jordan's problem? After all, doesn't the Zionist entity say that Jordan is the true Palestinian homeland?
I posted about this yesterday. Ignore all this BS as PSY OPS by the Israelis. Thay have been doing this for years, waiting for Uncle Sugar to throw more money at them. Only when the price of crude start jumping drastically should we be afraid. That will be the tip-off because the insiders will have started buying up gas and crude in anticipation of an attack and quadrupling of prices.
Israel violates Lebanon's airspace very often…. The poor Lebanese are helpless to thwart the incursions….. Lebanon spends almost nothing on defense while with OUR billions support Israel's aggressive war machine…., against our will…!!! Their policies are more like their Nazi victimizers than any of the states that saved them…!! Just another case of the abused becoming the abusers………
I don't know what to make of this article. NutandYahoo has been threatening Iran (with eager help from his underlings in Washington) for years. This is news?
Maybe this latest 'revelation' is part of USrael's plan to terrorize Iran into submission. It's just more Zionist smoke and mirrors designed to win 'cooperation' from Tehran.
The pro-Israel psyops professionals never stop concocting fantasies designed to weaken all and any perceived threats to America's "only democratic ally in the Middle East".
I just wonder if the Israelis are trying to attack before all of our troops are out of Iraq and Afghanistan. I hope the American people will refuse to support any attack on Iran. If we attack Iran, that will be the last nail in the coffin of the American Empire.
How does the west expect to win the war in Afghanistan and still attack Iran. Iran will support the Tailban next door to them. It is a desperate attempt by Israel, the US, and NATO to stop western decline and the rise of Asia.
Oil prices will go much higher if Iran is attacked. The people in the streets in the west want jobs and their share of the wealth, not more wars!
This is typical BS psyops, Zionists lie all the time, they think they are so smart.
I could call the Israelis crazy,but to be fair I'd have to include our own government,and their stenographers.(I tried to put this in at the NYTs and they squashed it-boy,are they circling the wagons or what?;every mainstream press outlet has gone to the wacko dark side,from AJ to the Guardian.)
In the wake of Fukushima, we can see that many nations are becoming anti-nuke, fearing that nuclear power plants are in themselves, without enriched uranium being manufactured for "defense", the more likely threat. Self-destruction was always in the cards with nuclear power.
So why doesn't Israel join with other nations in ridding the world of nuclear power plants? Isn't that the more prudent course here? In a relatively short span of time, compared to man's existence on the planet, there have two major disasters with plants, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Also, nuclear testing itself has caused cancer to Pacific Islanders and the residents of downwind sites in the US. Underground testing proved a false solution when nobody could predict which fault line the radiation would follow as it moved through the ground, venting on peoples' homes and ranches.
Israel was born in an era which believed in all the myths about technology – a first cousin to both the contenders in the Cold War. They have nukes, and I would imagine nuclear power plants. They want to deny the same technology to Iran because they are afraid it would make Iran more powerful than they are. But the fact is that everyone who has nukes is weakened and must serve this energy source as its faithful acolytes, never taking their eyes off the sacred fire.
Such idolatry has been the downfall of man since the species first took breath, and the Israelis know it. They're the ones who preached it.
It was no "leak" it was spread by isreal better than a press release. That Netanyahu is asking for an "investigation" is proof that he spread the story himself. Allways over playing his hand.