After Gen. Martin Dempsey’s comments last week laid out an extremely clear US opposition, Israeli officials are scrambling to re-frame their incredibly hawkish statements on attacking Iran.
Immediately after Gen. Dempsey’s comments Israeli officials were angry. Within a day they went from angry to puzzled. At this point they seem to be resigned to the idea that the comments were a game-changer, and for them a plan-changer.
Israeli officials had been hinting at launching the attack unilaterally in the weeks leading up to the US presidential election, but after the rebuke analysts say that they are preparing a “climbdown,” and the Obama Administration is likely to offer some sort of conciliatory effort.
The first sign of this shift came today, with the announcement of a shuffling of top Israeli military brass, including the appointment of a new operations chief, almost certainly not the action of a military planning a huge war in the next two months.
Lol.
I wonder if this is just a show to make sure Obama gets re elected, having shown some guts
To get reelected, he must show the opposite; that is, a spineless politician subservient to Israel needs. In the end, he has to impress the big money from AIPAC. As far as the powerful are concerned, the people at large can go to hell.
see … just like on Dog Whisperer … you remember that, first, it is an animal, then it is a species – a zionist … then it is a breed – right-wing-warmonger … then it is a pet, er parasite, a country called "israel" … and just as Cesar Millan must leash and control this animal and make sure it knows who is the pack-leader, it seems the Obama Administration – after decades of America letting the animal rule over us – has imposed order and discipline on the animal … .Bravo
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The zionist will not attack Iran without US help and they are on the skids fighting for their economic life and no way will allow a chickychong made up bastion with 200 nuclear weapons to pull them down further.israel and america both are a threat to peace.
a CAREFULLY SCRIPTED GAME–BY BOTH SIDES=more US SONS IN BODYBAGS–
Lol, too.
A new operations chief is exactly what Netanyahu would do if the old one hesitated. When the Italian Army told Mussolini it could not take Greece from Albania, he just fired them and put in charge a guy who claimed it would be a cake walk. Of course it was a world changing disaster.
Bush did the same thing in Iraq. I mention Mussolini first, because I want to make the point that Bush was our very own Mussolini — incompetent braggart who took us into disaster, firing all the sane people trying to stop him.
So now, it is not safe to say that Netanyahu "can't" be doing the same.
Crazy regime, it cant live without wars of aggression. Its about time ti "disolve" this embarising mistake and UN decision from 1948. World would be much safer place…peter czech
Or perhaps this " shuffling of top Israeli military brass" is to remove those individuals who are not entirely enthusiastic about Netanyahoo's desires to attack Iran and embroil the US in another Middle East conflict. For some unexplainable reason I don't have much faith that Bibi and Ehud are going to "back down" after they've spent so much political cash in running up his Iranian war.
If true, this is a rare spot of good news—though it's far too early for anything like a sigh of relief. After all, the belligerent sanctions regime remains intact, diplomacy is still DOA, and Obama's expected "conciliatory" gestures toward Israel—and its powerful US lobby—will do little for the cause of peace. The administration, in short, is just kicking the Iran war can a little further down the road.
On a related note, this will likely encourage the Romney camp to intensify their Obama-is-throwing-Israel-under-the-bus spiel—so have your vomitus receptacles at hand.
Are you guys falling for Obama the Merciful???
They only know how to kill innocent Palestinian children, now we see the cowards from israhell, they are too afraid to fight the real army.
Slapped down. Get used to it.
If true, this is certainly a new twist on the old plot as they say. Watch what shoe drops next.