Amid speculation that Israel’s threats to attack Iran, which have persisted for years, are just a bluff, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon insisted that the threat of an attack is very real.
“The one who’s bluffing is Iran,” insisting Ayalon, but since Iran isn’t the one who has been threatening to attack Israel’s nuclear program, he wasn’t very clear about what Iran was supposed to be bluffing about.
Ayalon went on to accuse Iran of not being sincere in their negotiation with the P5+1 on a uranium enrichment program. Israeli officials initially slammed the negotiations, but came out eagerly endorsing them after EU diplomats insisted the deal was likely dead.
Iran recently pressed the United Nations Security Council to act against Israel over comments by a former official suggesting the attack could come as soon as Christmas. Since US officials have repeatedly said Israel has every right to launch a unilateral attack against Iran, it is assumed that any attempt for such a measure would be vetoed by them.
Israel has a right to "defend" itself. Iran has the right to remain silent. Anything they say can and will be used against them in the court of western media opinion.
well i guess by the end of obama's first term we will know if the Arabian peninsula will be ruled by a greater Israel or it will be the end of Zionism and the western preeminence in the world.
If Iran is bluffing, as the Israeli deputy Foreign Minister insists, then surely Israel has nothing to fear from Iran, so now Israel can tell their military generals to stop making their weekly threats to attack Iran…
[The way Iran and Israel talk about each other reminds me of two little punk kids in the playground threatning to beat each other up, threatning to go get their bigger brother to come help them beat the other, trying to tell on each other to the teacher… Brats!)
The only thing Israel is ever sincere about is attacking countries, so I don't dobt it. My feeling is they can hardly wait to attack Iran and Israel's puppet, the US won't stop them, no matter what new disaster it brings to the world.
Iran uses Hezzbollah to attack Israel. Oh and they blew up the Jewish center in Argentina.
Hezbollah is a national liberation movement formed in responces to a 20 year occupation.
hezbollah is as much a proxies of Iran as the American revolutionaries were proxies of france
Hizzbollah is a terror ate group.
what is your definition of terrorist?
When they do what Hizzbollah does , when they hunt down minority groups in their own country and in other nations.
There weren't many jews in Lebanon but Hizzbollah went after the few that were left. and then they even go after them in foreign countries.
They aren't terrorists?
"when they hunt down minority groups in their own country and in other nations. "
like the idf
Hizzbollah went after arab Jews in Lebanon , and they went after them in Argentian and they are out to destroy Israel.
They teach hate , incite violence , sell drugs and counterfiet US money.
They aren't terrorists?
hey teach hate
incite violence
sell drugs
counterfiet US money.
all thinks the united states does as well as israel
and YOU don't know what Hizzbololah is about.
Hezbollah originated in the Islamic revolution of Iran in the late 1970s. Until then, militant anti-Western forces in the Middle East were primarily Arabist and socialist. Their dream was not of a revival of Islamic religiosity, but rather the creation of a socialist, pan-Arab regime. Operationally, these Arabist militants were heavily dependent on secular Arab regimes such as Egypt, Syria or Libya, and on the support of Soviet-bloc intelligence services. In fact, apart from Israel, their primary targets were the religious Sunni monarchies of the Persian Gulf. The Saudis spent a great deal of money and collaborated closely with the United States to contain and defeat these movements.
http://www.stratfor.com/hezbollah_party_god
You're conveniently leaving out the Israeli support for Hezbollah in the 1970s to undercut the PLO. Talk about the gift of blowback that keeps on giving, and with interest! Ho ho ho!!!
Hizzbollah was started in the 1980s. Go check your facts thanks for playing
joorip "Hezbollah originated in the Islamic revolution of Iran in the late 1970s."
joorip "Hizzbollah was started in the 1980s. Go check your facts thanks for playing "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
thanks for playing
first of all wiki is not a valid source, so it proves nothing.
second it say nothing about your contradiction of your self
and here are the only 2 foot notes regaurding its ties to iran
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4314423.st…
"it emerged with financial backing from Iran in the early 1980s and began a struggle to drive Israeli troops from Lebanon. "
"It was close to a contingent of some 2,000 Iranian Revolutionary guards, based in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, which had been sent to the country to aid the resistance against Israel."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti…
there is no specific refrence to hezbolla's creation in this artical so im not sure why it was a refrence
so 2 vague articals from the bbc and the washington post.
maybe you should stop "playing"
Argentina? There are doubts on that. Might want to check this out:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080204/porter
""In an interview last May James Cheek, Clinton's Ambassador to Argentina at the time of the bombing, told me, "To my knowledge, there was never any real evidence [of Iranian responsibility]. They never came up with anything." The hottest lead in the case, he recalled, was an Iranian defector named Manoucher Moatamer, who "supposedly had all this information." But Moatamer turned out to be only a dissatisfied low-ranking official without the knowledge of government decision-making that he had claimed. "We finally decided that he wasn't credible," Cheek recalled. Ron Goddard, then deputy chief of the US Mission in Buenos Aires, confirmed Cheek's account. He recalled that investigators found nothing linking Iran to the bombing. "The whole Iran thing seemed kind of flimsy," Goddard said.""
Gareth Porter is a Kymer Rouge apologist.
"Gareth Porter challenged the main rationale offered by U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1969 for continuing the Vietnam War, and argued that there would not be a communist "bloodbath" in South Vietnam after the U.S. withdrew its forces from Vietnam. He wrote a series of articles and monographs on the bloodbath argument.
His first monograph was The Myth of the Bloodbath: North Vietnam’s Land Reform Reconsidered in 1973.[4] He challenged the account of mass killings in North Vietnam's land reform (see Land reform in Vietnam) by Hoang Van Chi, Bernard Fall and others. Instead of tens or hundreds of thousands killed, Gareth Porter claimed that only a few hundred people died. His arguments were disputed by several critics in special hearings before the United States Congress.[5][6] Gareth Porter replied to these critics in another hearing.[7]
He also wrote a detailed exposé[8] in 1974 of an account by U.S. Information Agency official Douglas Pike on what has been called the "Huế Massacre" by Vietnamese Communists during the Tet Offensive of 1968. Porter alleged that Pike manipulated the official figures for civilian deaths in the destruction of Huế during Tet, primarily by U.S. bombing and artillery, to arrive at his figure of nearly 4,000 civilians murdered by the Viet Cong, and that Pike’s hypothesis about the Communist policy during the occupation of Huế was contradicted by captured Communist documents and other evidence.
In 1976-77, continuing his challenge to the bloodbath argument, Gareth Porter rejected early accounts of the mass killings by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. With George Hildebrand he wrote a book, Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, which accepted the Pol Pot regime's rationale for the deportation of millions of people from Phnom Penh and other cities. Critics have argued that the book's sources included official statements by the Pol Pot regime. Testifying before Congress in May 1977, Gareth Porter said that "the notion that the leadership of Democratic Kampuchea adopted a policy of physically eliminating whole classes of people" was "a myth fostered primarily by the authors of a Readers Digest book."[9] Congressman Stephen J. Solarz was so shocked by this testimony that he compared Gareth Porter to those who deny the murder of 6 million Jews in the Nazi Holocaust. Gareth Porter rejected this comparison.[10]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter
And after the walls of Jericho fell down, the Israelites went into the city and murdered EVERY man, woman, child, and all of the livestock and they took all of the gold and silver – and – is there any surprise that the IDF of Israel continues to do the same thing today? Maybe Iran should launch a 'preemptive' attack on Israel? Sadly, the US supports the war crimes committed by Israel!
Nice revisionism. Are you the Hasbara troll assigned to this website tonight?
Ever heard of Tochnit Dalet? Ever read Ben Gurion's memoirs in which states that the removal of Arabs from Palestine was essential for a Zionist state?
well in 1948 Israel's enemies launched a war of annihilation that 's a war crime or an attempted war crime
and Israel's enemies persecuted arab jews in response to Israel. That's a war crime
and they supported the Nazis in World War II
You are another one who thinks that only the wrongs of one side count.
Hope a drunk driver crashes into you and kills you and your entire family
well Germany supported the nazi during ww2 and are now selling advanced weapons and nuclear capable submarines to israel
so by your logic israelies are nazis
not like the mufit did.
anyway the wrongs of Israel's enemies count , maybe you would like to supress any discussion of them but that is your problem
WHAT!!!!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!
you wrote -"and they (israel's enemies) supported the Nazis in World War II
i wrote – "well Germany supported the nazi during ww2 "
your reply -"not like the mufit did. "
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?
as far as me "suppressing" you right to say what you want give me a break.
sound more and more like you are a troll but what a failure at conintel you are
1. Benny Morris quoted Ben Gurion (in 1937) in Righteous Victims: "With compulsory transfer we get a vast area of land …. I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it."
2. From Sefer Toldot Ha-Haganah: Palestinian villages inside the Jewish state that resist should be destroyed …. and their inhabitants expelled beyond the borders of the Jewish state. Meanwhile, Palestinian residents of the urban quarters which dominate access to or egress from towns should be expelled beyond the borders of the Jewish state in the event of their resistance.
3. Tochnit Dalet
Go sell your shtick somewhere else.
Screw you and your attempts at censorship
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/6/…
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/i…
OH OK YOU WIN!!!!!
one picture of one man with hitler is all the proof i need to know that 60 years latter every one of the same nationality is a nazi
No but the wrongs of Isreal's enemies count too.
Maybe you object to such a discussion but that isn't my problem
this is a thread discussing israel's deputy foreign ministers statements about Israel launching an unprovoked war on a country it does not border.
so yes lets talk about pol pot….
Yes. Yes. Blame its enemies. We weren't born yesterday on this website.
Israel was using White Phosphorus to burn and destroy its enemies as early as 1967.
Here's the real face of the Only Democracy in the Middle East™:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126286.html
And what did do Saddam , the Ayatollah Khomeni and Syria Algeria do in war.
You are just so stupid
next time your in court tell the judge some one else was behaving worse see how well that does for you
wouldn't be much of a court if it only focuses on the wrongs of one side
"US officials have repeatedly said Israel has every right to launch a unilateral attack against Iran…"
Can you cite some of these statements? Bombing Iran's IAEA-safeguarded nuclear facilities is a war crime including complicity by U.S. officials. Details: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/hjc-iran…
Israel is definately bluffing as they will only attack defencless people like people of Gaza and the Westbank and the civillians of Beirut…. as for a country that is capable of retaliating, they send in their ever so reliable henchman, the USA.
What country in the world except Israel can routinely make almost weekly threats to attack another country, for years on end and just get away with it?
Israel is hoping that Iran will do what Egypt did in 1967. At the time, Egypt was fortifying its defenses in preparation for an Israeli attack. The Israelis spun that around and used it as an excuse claiming Egypt was preparing to attack Israel and annihilate it and evaporate every molecule of it…blah blah blah. If Israel is such a tough bully then they should attack already. Let's see if they'll continue their bluster afterward.
If Iran and Israel shared a border, Israel would have provoked an attack or staged a false flag operation a long time ago.
the zionist biggest cheerleaders are the governments of the western democracies, not the people of these countries…. just a few nut cases like john hagee, and he's a work of art….they attack and the usa will run right to thier aid…..however I believe the hezbollah has some tricks up their sleeves for the ziocon regime and the zionists are scared of what might happen….they just need to provoke something to drag the usa into it.
What is it with the Israeli government nutters and their nonsensical propaganda? First it was the major-general babbling about Iran developing a civilian nuclear program that somehow has no civilian use and now we get a stuffed shirt braying about Iran bluffing about Israel not attacking. It all sounds like the Hollywood script writers took a group sabbatical to Israel and got government jobs there.
Hey I hear the Israelis are whingeing… cos someone did a survey and found that British school kids think Hitler was a German football coach.
Constant threats against defenseless Iran by Nuclear Israel are getting annoying… Everyday it seems Israel is threatening Iran… Oh wait, Israel says Iran is a threat, but with Israel it's threat after threat after threat….. Israel, in English a threat is a threat….and those who threaten to attack another country are ipso facto A THREAT.. Threats engender negative action cycles, escalation and retaliation… Worse, they focus the energies of the threatened….. Zia al Haq " We may eat grass, but we WILL get the BOMB..!! For YOUR own sake Israel, give it a rest..!!! All your threats and bellicose rhetoric are turning the ENTIRE WORLD against your raucous jingoism even….in places where the government has been induced to support your threats AND war CRIMES… Your dream to have the world so frightened of you that they pay tribute and cower is a twisted fantasy, sure to end in another holocaust as you push and push push… It is YOU that BLUFF, YOU who have the most to lose…You need to stop killing the Palestinians and stealing their land and homes. You are NEVER going to have enough real estate and population to be a player in the thermonuclear big leagues….U.S., RUSSIA, CHINA from your postage stamp plot with it's small divided population…. Everyone in your neighborhood will soon have nukes if you don't stop your threats, if only to deter YOU and your nuclear blackmail
its actually against international law to threat attack on another country.
but don't you dare try and get some one to enforce it or your some kind of Hitler lover jew-baby eating unamerican antisemite