The Obama administration offered Israel advanced weaponry in return for putting off a possible attack on Iran until after the 2012 presidential elections.
The Israeli daily Maariv reported on Thursday citing anonymous diplomats and intelligence sources that the Obama administration meeting with Israeli leaders earlier this week offered them advanced bunker-busting bombs and long-range refueling planes if he promised to postpone a preventive war on Iran until at least 2013.
The Obama administration had for months been pressing Israel to calm its calls for war on Iran, primarily because the consensus in the U.S. military and intelligence community is that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has demonstrated no intention to do so. An attack is therefore wholly unnecessary, but fears ran high that Israel might attack anyway.
The White House has denied the validity of the reports. “In meetings the president had there was no such agreement proposed or reached,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. “We have obviously high-level cooperation between the Israeli military and the U.S. military, and at other levels and with other agencies within their government and our government”, Carney said, adding: “That was not a subject of discussion in the president’s meetings.”
But Ha’aretz also quoted an Obama official saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had specifically asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for the GBU-28 bunker busting bombs as well as for the advanced refueling aircraft.
Netanyahu told Israeli news media on Thursday that a strike of Iran’s nuclear facilities is not a “matter of days, weeks, but not a matter of years,” adding: “If I don’t make the right call [on Iran] maybe there won’t be anyone to explain to.” This of course completely ignores U.S. intelligence which says Iran is very far off from even deciding to begin development of nuclear weapons.
Whether or not the Obama administration’s deal-cutting was sincere in its attempts to deter reckless Israeli aggression against Iran, it seems clear that giving Israel better capability to unilaterally attack increases the likelihood of it happening.
good for Obama
So Bibi, like the petulant spoiled buffoon he is, pitches the histrionic fit and Obama gives him weapons of mass destruction like a cookie. Judas H. Priest, Mr. President needs to grow a pair and tell the Bibs to piss up rope.
Skulz…. It's all theater. You already know that. This business of "offering"…. remember that since WE are the ones paying for this, is nothing but sending them stockpiles for whatever they plan to do in the future. Obama is a master liar and illusionist so the latest is but another sleight of hand for what's to come. Probably setting this up for a forward staging area.
lmfao, I'm starting to feel sorry for just how pathetic Obama is. He should take a cue from one of his mentors Brezinski who said he would, if in the position, just shoot down any Israeli planes flying over Iraq or US controlled air-space. Obama though really seems to be one spineless coward.
I wonder if those two Marines in the photo felt like giving Barry and Benny the bird instead of saluting them.
good for Obama keep giving stuff to Israel. The Khomeni follower are more racist than israel
If there is a chance of casualties amongst the war criminals, better not to risk any of Israel's Ubermenchen, but rather that their groveling toady Janissaries from places like Nebraska and Tennessee, be sent in harms way by their government to pay the debt of traitorous whores like Bush and Obama.
This is like giving a loaded pistol to a petulant child with an inferiority complex and a case of the ass…maybe these weapons can get lost in the American Logistics system like all those pallets of dollars that got "lost" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The consensus in the military and intelligence community is that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has demonstrated no intention to do so. But Isra-hell is eager to bomb them no matter what ! if so what is the definition of terrorism ?
Is it a terrorist someone who doesn't have means or enough power to defend himself ?
Hard to know who to believe…the Israelie press or Obammie…but if true that's like Obammie giving an arsonist a pack of matches and a can of gasoline if he promises not to burn the joint down or actually promises to not burn the joint down this year but do it next year.
If it's true and Booboo Nutty Yahoo keeps his promise than it looks like the war will be on in 2013.
HANDS OFF IRAN !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPbH5xRnUcM
Hands Off Iran
"The White House has denied the validity of the reports…." For Pete's (whoever Pete is!) sake, why can't we hold judgment till we find out what our President really promised? Have you ever been sorry you found out the "truth" after being so dogmatic? I know I have…. Please, let's hold off judgment till we know for sure what OUR President promised, did, said–whatever. "Do to others as you would have them do to you!" Yoshie Tanabe
Citizens of the United States need the TRUTH NOW! If this is a democracy, we need to be informed immediately of all agreements made with other nations. If it is later revealed that Obama has secretly agreed to provide our most secret technology and additional "weapons of mass destruction" to Israel to defer an inevitable attack on Iran, HE MUST BE IMPEACHED for bringing death and destruction both to Iran and his own citizens! All agreements are paid with the tax dollars from U.S. citizens; therefore, it is imperative that citizens be informed of where and how those dollars are being used. NO SECRET AGREEMENTS!
The White House denied the validity of reports that the Cuban Missile 'Crisis' was settled by the U.S. promise to remove missiles from Turkey, too, which was the original objective of the Soviet government.
Six months later they were gone.
If things look ridiculously obvious, they usually are.
Read Obama's statement yoshie, Obama didn't talk about new weapons for Israel , but maybe someone else in the US governmant did. Translated, it means, it was not necessary to talk about it in the meeting, it was already fixed before, so we can deny it came up.
First, please don't use the warmongers' double speak such as 'preventive war'. If Israel attacks it will be an unprovoked war of aggression. A 'preventive war' is generally understood to mean a war to prevent an imminent attack. If Israel attacks Iran, the only thing it will be designed and carried out to prevent is the ability of another nation to have a deterrent to Israel's overwhelming conventional and nuclear superiority. Because Israel has nearly certain second strike capacity in their nuclear capable Dolphin class submarines, there is no way that Iran could use a nuke against Israel without assuring Iran's destruction. And that's not even mentioning what the US would do in response So if Iran should build a nuclear bomb, it would ONLY be practical or useful as a deterrent and Israel knows that. So please, think twice before adopting the language of the warmakers.
And also realize that if what this article claims is true, it doesn't mean Obama won't order a strike on Iran, with or without Israel, if he's way behind in the poles and the Repugnant Republicans are successful in framing and defining him as weak on national security and willing to overlook a threat to the United States. If its looking bad and an attack on Iran might save his reelection, there should be no doubt that this president, as devoid of principles as he has now shown himself to be, will be capable of launching a war on Iran. WE should not be lulled into complacency. It might take every ounce of commitment, and then some, to stop a war on Iran THIS YEAR if those electoral circumstances develop.
Eduardo Cohen
So where are the Democratic candidates for "peace"? Where are the Democratic constituents clamoring for an end to this travesty? The marches on the Mall demanding HIS ouster? The Republicans don't need to frame anything seeing as the Almighty 'O' simply has to wave his imperial hand and "law", and for that matter even the covering media propaganda, is formulated out of the ether. It's all so absurd.
Let's ask BIbi to wait until his father passes on.
Just when you think nothing can surprise you and nothing can make you any sicker than you already are…along comes Obomber bearing weapons for the jews so they can kill even more Palestinians with. Gawd I'm beginning to hate that guy!
PS: And here's what Iran's PressTV is reporting on the subject:
"US upgrading bunker buster to use in Iran war: US general"
A senior US Air Force general says the US may use a huge new 13,600-kilogram bunker buster bomb in case of a possible strike against Iran over its nuclear program.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/230768.html
Just two points:
1.Do not blame Obama for whatever happens. He’s nobody, but just a front man representing bankers, arms manufacturers, and other warmongers, given that only a man without morals and principles allows himself to be used as a front man.
2.According to the UN Charter, even threat of war is crime against peace, and you don’t have to look far to see 2 criminals.
Y'all are missing the point. Obama doesn't care about Israel. He only cares about getting re-elected. He correctly reads that Americans have had enough war, so that won't happen until after he's got his next four years.
Bingo. It was rumored, and I wouldn't doubt it, that the Republicans asked the Iranians not to release the "hostages" until it became clear Ronnie would win. Seems that Barack has turned that tale on its head. Now WE, and the Iranian populace, are held hostage by da Prez until he weasels his way in and stabs us all in the back once again.
Meanwhile Iran is supposed to crippling sanctions and Carl Levin wants a naval blockade to stop Iranian oil to get out.An Israeli official proposes that Iran ian people to be put at starvation until the regime remains unchanged.But why,what for as:"The Obama administration had for months been pressing Israel to calm its calls for war on Iran, primarily because the consensus in the U.S. military and intelligence community is that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has demonstrated no intention to do so."If the consensus is that Iran has not a nuclear weapon plan why to sanction it and terrorize the people instead to say to Bibi that he is a liar and war monger.Why Obama and is saying it to Sarkozy and Sarkozy is saying the same to Obama instead to say directly to Bibi.This is the "free world" and its values:cowardice,subservience to riches,racism (because only racism could found this insolent aggressor policy against Muslims in general and Iran in particular.