The U.S. envoy to Israel told the Israeli Bar Association that America has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, just days ahead of a second round of nuclear talks to take place in Baghdad.
Dan Shapiro said that although the Obama administration has made efforts to negotiate a deal on Iran’s nuclear program, “that doesn’t mean that option is not fully available. Not just available, but it’s ready,” he said. “The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it’s ready.”
The comment was typical of the talk coming out of the Obama administration for months. Officials have consistently employed tough talk, aimed particularly at trigger happy Israeli hawks who are unsure about Obama’s commitment to go to war on Israel’s paranoid say-so.
“We do believe there is time. Some time, not an unlimited amount of time,” Shapiro said in reference to the P5+1 talks with Iran on its nuclear program. “But at a certain point, we may have to make a judgment that the diplomacy will not work.”
Shapiro made his comments without emphasizing the conclusion of the U.S. military and intelligence community, that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, has demonstrated no intention to develop one, and that an attack would needlessly cause a regional conflagration of international violence which could not be contained.
What will come to the negotiations remains to be seen, but there is a simple solution to the issue which is completely off the table. Namely, establishing a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. Top Iranian officials have repeatedly voiced their support for such a plan, but Israel has refused to give up its hundreds of nuclear weapons and also to open up its stockpile to international inspections.
So while every single participant in the talks with Iran acknowledges that they don’t even have a weapons program, no talks have been scheduled with Israel over its well-established weapons program. The double standard is not only glaring, but it is the cause of much of the tension over potential conflict in the Middle East.
It is obvious that Israeli-firster Dan Shapiro himself is trying to make foreign policy here.
Is the us envoy making a terrorist threat against iran?
Yep, but first they have to take care of all those restless sheep who are going to be gathering outside their pow wow an causing a commotion in Chicago. That, of course, will be the dress rehearsal, Iran will be the real thing.
Drone warfare waged against civilian populations amounts to state terrorism. The US/Israel regimes do know very well that there is not a shred of evidence of Iran developing nuclear weapon, since they would be utterly useless to them.. They don't care, it is not the issue. Also they are not interested in a 'nuclear free zone', in fact they are against it. Nuclear capability means that they can blackmail and to impose their will onto other nations. We have reached a stage in international relations where it is no longer necessary to invent and fabricate a pretexts and excuses to start a war. The UN Charter and international law, Geneva Agreements etc. are all dead, obsolete and out of date; things of the past. Wars can be started at any time. What we have to-day is the 'law of the jungle and the law of the strongest'. "Usrael" policies for Israel's survival depend on creating chaos, violence endless internal devisons; fanning civil war; destoyed infra structures in ME countries, as we currently witness in Iraq and Syria.
*&&**&&*&*&*&**&&**&&* They OWN us…….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paid for with OUR OWN tax money and Billions in aid……….. We have paid for our own enslavement…………….. Loss of rights ….. and Debt……… Rumsfeld gives speech: $2,4OO,OOO,OOO,OOO.OO Missing at Pentagon on 9/10/01……… Check Cashed on 9/11/01…!!!
america is a armed camp and has put the zionist on Palestinian land with nuclear weapons will this work "NO" Iran will be the regional power in the middle east with all the weaponery that has been given to israel it too will vanish form the pages of History.Bomb and invade Iran america will be farting against thunder.
The source of the double standards noted here is the same source for others. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4229767,00.htm...
"…if a gentile is injured in a car accident on Shabbat and is rushed to the hospital? According to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, this does not warrant violating the sanctity of the Sabbath."
Question to be answered: Is the operating surgeon a 'real Jew' or a converted surrogate 'Jew' as most people in Israel to-day are either 'mizrahim' (new immigrant or 'ashkenazi' (from Eastern Europe before 1948). The only semites are the indigenous Arab/Palestinain displaced population.
Not at all; he's just reiterating Maimonides http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jewhis5.htm . Yosef is treated as a novelty, when he's just being frank like Kahane before him. I'm asserting that the dogma subsuming things like that accounts for certain international policies; and there was a fresh Yosef gaff to work with…
Dan Shapiro won't be a squid on a sunken navy ship — what does he care? Zionist chicken-hawk.
I get so irritated when people pronounce it EYE-RAN. It's Ear-Ahn. And I doubt they are building nuke weapons, but I can't blame them for wanting them for defense. Yes, they have hardliners, but I'm more afraid of Uncle Sam and his wargasms than anything going on in Iran. If attacked by the evil twins, I hope Iran fights back. I hate to see people die, but the sheeple have very little influence over the war addicts.
US envoy to israel or israel's envoy to the US?
Okay, I'm slow. Doesn't the US pretty much have a plan for attacking everybody? I thought they do that as part of their general strategic planning. So, if that's the case, why is this being trumpeted this way now? What (or who) is being served by this fear-ratcheting? Seems awfully suspicious coming so closely to their negotiating sessions. Posturing perhaps?
A vote for Obama is a vote for a war with Iran after the election
A vote for Romney is a vote for war with Iran after the election.
If you don't want a war with Iran, vote for someone else. There'll be other names on the ballot who won't go to war with Iran.
This is actually rather rare, that American voters get to vote on a war before it happens. The pattern of Dubya saying he won't do 'nation building' in the campaign, and then starting wars that he didn't talk about in the election is much more common in American politics. Same for Obama who campaigned as an anti-war candidate during the election, and then has been as bad as Dubya in starting and surging wars once in office.
So, this is a rare chance for American voters to clearly vote NO about a war that has been openly announced and talked about before an election. We need to take advantage of this. Anyone who votes for either Obama or Romney is expressing their support for a war with Iran after the election and will have blood on their own hands as a result.
Forth Commandment
“Reflect each day on the day that is most holy, Saturday, having gratitude for it and by this gaining salvation from it. The other days produce things, study and trade things, and pursue all that needs to be done by you. But the day that is seventh, sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, this belongs to the Lord your God. You must not do on it anything to produce a material gain, not you, a son or daughter, men in your service, or women in your service, any animal of yours or a nonbeliever in association with you.
For in six days created by the Lord God was the Universe, the earth with its waters, and all that is in them, and then a rest of grace was established, a rest from harm, temptation and toil on the day that is seventh. And when a grateful heart is expressed to God for the day that is seventh, this is a grateful giving heart that can do no harm, this is salvation, surely it is.”
Exodus 20:8, translated from the original Greek by John Ellis