For many countries, the concern surrounding the potential Israeli attack on Iran pertains to whether they will get drawn into it, how big a war it will create, how badly it will damage the global economy, or even simply what it will do to the price of oil.
In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, however, the concern among embassy staff is a little more short-term. With the Israeli attack treated as virtually a foregone conclusion by many, the question immediately becomes what happens when Iran inevitably retaliates.
Foreign diplomats stationed in Israel are struggling to make “contingency plans” for the event that Iranian missiles begin flying in retaliation for an Israeli attack, and what they will do not just with their staff, but with their citizens who are in Israel on vacations or business.
It could be a monumental task for some nations, and with even the US unsure that Israel will give them advanced notice, smaller nations have to assume they’ll first hear about the war on TV, or when rockets start falling.
This is a problem in a number of third-world nations where war could break out any minute, but, unlike most third-world nations, Israel has such a massive number of tourists visiting at any given time, and these threats have been ongoing for decades, so the timing is impossible to predict.
The European Union has already conceded that it does not have the means to evacuate all the EU citizens in Israel in a timely fashion if a war breaks out, and the best Israel’s government is offering is a list of public bomb shelters for them to hide in. This is not so reassuring and embassies are likely to be overrun by mobs of their own desperate citizens hoping for safe haven.
This is insane. It reminds me of those old TV schticks where the comic keeps yelling, "hold me back… hold me back". It like watching suicide in slow motion.
It like watching suicide in slow motion.
we can only hope that this is the out come for this !@#$%^& nation
From the War Party…Let's Have a War
That's a funny name there, friend–I was calling him Nuke 'em Newt.
is newt that little imp on the drums?
They better off watching their embassies being shattered on TV at home then being engaged stoping Israel apartheid regime from attacking Iran.., they know that Israel wont listens to their government and that their government is not doing anything so they are after plan B…, which is.., go home sooner then later.
Why isn't there a UN mandate forbidding Israel from launching a first strike attack on Iran? Where's the sanctions?
Israel uber alles!!!!
Yeah, and the possibility of Israel doing what the UN dictates is … what?
I think there are something like 40 UN Resolutions against Israel which the Israelis are currently not complying with? Come on man, the UN is a tool of the US, NATO and Israel to lend diplomatic cover to their global aggression. It is toothless by itself.
The Israeli brat is about to throw its periodic war tantrum again – this time it wants a big one, and its permissive parents in Washington are letting the discipline leash slip away as usual.
I’m sorry, but I really can’t get too concerned about the safety of tourists visiting Israel. They have chosen to put themselves at risk for their leisure.
israel will not attack Iran, they are a Pu**y in Di*k clothing.
such a massive number of tourists visiting at any given time'
I do not think that this problem will exist if the Likud/bibi bombs Iran. I suspect they are already preparing a request for the Congress to provide more money to the nation of Israel because they will lose tourist income. I wonder who much of that tourist income comes from the massive number of USA elected officials and their families coming to Israel to collect their bribes. The chosen likes to watch someone beg for their bribes.
A simple solution would be to tell Israel not to continue starting wars and then expecting others to fight them. Let all those tourist guides go fight this one. Without the tourist they will have nothing to do so let them go fight a war for the benefit of the Israeli only.
You have to wonder whether the Israeli people are being told exactly what the ramifications of going to war with Iran are going to be? I mean, if they're being told that the tourist industry, which is big money there, will end and that the Iranians have much larger missiles than the piddly things that get tossed out of the occupied territories – if they're informed and still want to go thru with this then there really is no hope for them. I imagine the Armageddonists here are just frothing at the mouth – and getting ready for the Coming (that won't).
I do not believe it would be wise for the Iranians to make a retaliatory war on Israel. What would be the use of such an action? It will only kill innocent Israeli civilians.
It would be a lot more productive if they saved all their efforts and concentrated them on all the U.S. carriers, ships, and military basis in the Middle East, in particular in the timid Arab allies of the west.
Also, in the event of war Iranians do not have to close the Strait of Hormuz. All they have to do to stop the oil flow is to rain missiles on all oil production facilities in the ME, that will also serve as a lesson to teach NATO good manners and human values.
Why don't you ask your whores that? It seems like every time that Hezbollah (or those Mossad murderers disguised as Hezbollah) fire one of their fire crackers over the fence, the Israeli Death Forces retaliate and kill 6 or 12 or 50 Palestinians. So, what's is the use of such an action of retaliation? You despicable trolls ever weigh your hypocrisy before you open your pieholes?
PS: I hope that if Israel dares strike that Iran retaliates by wiping that sh**ty little hell hole off the ace of the Earth. I got the bear and burgers ready for the celebration! F*ck Israel!
Nathan Hasbara writes:
"Don't make war on Israel when Israel makes war on you. Make war on the US, and nearby Arab oil states instead."
Can't you at least be a ***little*** subtle?
Let 'em rip! If this is how humanity is going to go, we may as well let them put us out of our collective misery sooner rather than later.