In a speech on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that military action against Iran was on the table for Israel.
“We will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots. “We do not take lightly the threats made against us, nor do we shy away from them. Our policy is clear and consistent: whoever tries to harm us will suffer a crushing blow.”
Netanyahu’s comments come amid heightened tensions in the region, and after Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in an apparent Israeli plot. Since Fakhrizadeh’s death, Israel has been hyping the threat of Iranian attacks, despite Iran’s clear desire to avoid a military confrontation before President Trump leaves office.
Fakhrizadeh’s killing came after a report said President Trump reviewed options to attack an Iranian nuclear site last month. Israel took the news as a signal to escalate tensions. Besides being the likely perpetrator of Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, Israel also ramped up airstrikes in Syria against what it claims are Iranian targets.
Netanyahu mentioned Israel’s campaign in Syria. “We will continue to act against attempts by Iran and its proxies to establish military bases in Syria. We will not compromise on this issue,” he said. While Iran has a small presence in Syria, it is greatly overblown by Israel to justify airstrikes in the country.
Despite constant Israeli airstrikes in Syria, any retaliation by Syria would almost certainly be blamed on Iran. On Monday, Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Aviv Kohavi said Israel is prepared to “forcefully” respond to any attack by Iran or any members of the “radical axis,” referring to groups in Syria, Gaza, and Lebanon.
It is clear that Israel is being used by the US military Ghouls in exchange for a.) $3 billion ++ in aid and b.) serving as eternal victim that needs protection by White Knight USA from hostile anti-Semitic forces. The “tail wagging the dog” meme is a myth.
It has been on the table ever since the Shah was kicked out of Iran.
Not forgetting that it was the US/UK who got the Shah to leave.
They were the ones who installed him and the SAVAK.
Yes they were, but in 1978, when the Shah was at his most hated in Iran, the US/UK planned to get him to step down, put in place a temporary leadership composed of “friendly clerics”, then put the Shah’s son on the Peacock throne.
http://markcurtis.info/2017/02/01/islamic-revolution-in-iran-cultivating-then-arming-the-ayatollah/
If the Israelis understood how much damage Netanyahu has done to the standing of Israel in world opinion, they would hang him today.
To state the obvious, israel has called another election so niten needs a war in a very big way-the man is evil beyond measure!
Someone else needs a big war, maybe to forestall an inauguration?
Possible! Insanity prevails at all levels in the blob and what passes for foreign policy. May God help us if they let pompass out of his cage and on the loose.
i will not list the names of the so called think tanks here but some of them are also pushing very strongly against any “withdrawal” and for very aggressive actions in the mid east.
Unfortunately, I must second that.
Cool aid!
Israel would be soundly defeated by Iran in an all out war that is why they keep poking at Iran and running and hiding behind Trump – they’re doing everything they can to get Trump to attack Iran and sacrifice more of our soldiers, sailors, and air Force for Israel on top of the 10’s of thousands of lives and trillions of American tax dollars for Israel over the last 20 years
Everyone would loose, save for a few religious fanatics and ideologues.Iran has ten times the population, oil resources,vast terrorists armies, willingness to sacrifice lives, and leaders with extreme patience and an apocalyptic world view. Israel has at least 😯 nuclear tipped MIRV IRBM’s.
“vast terrorists armies”
And of course a “terrorist army” would be any army that might oppose Israel. That is so Pompeo of you.
“willingness to sacrifice lives”
Like the Samson option?
Like MAD, the Sampson option has prevented nuclear war for 74 years. Not bad.
Which state was going to nuke Israel if not for the Sampson option?
Iran has eighty million people and access to Syria-they could easily win a war of attrition against Israel, save for the threat of nuclear annihilation. In 1973, the USSR was prepared to us nuclear weapons against Israel, save for US threats.
In other words, it was not the Samson option that stopped the USSR from nuking Israel. And Iran does not appear to have ever had nuclear weapons, which means the Samson option was/is a threat OF nuclear war, not a deterrent TO nuclear war.
But it’s not really even that, since Israel doesn’t claim to have nukes.
Once nukes are used, everyone looses even more than they already have lost. Old codgers don’t mind sending the young off to war, the ideologues don’t send their kids,but the people in power will find it very hard to hide from the big one.
And the “Samson option” rhetoric is a threat to use nukes, not a deterrent to using nukes.
In 1973, the Israeli nuclear capabilities were not as puissant as today-the Sampson option did not exist, Israel does not claim to have nukes as there is no point in making an inflamed situation worse by rhetoric. Iran has held off making massive conventional moves because they know that they may undergo nuclear destruction. Once someone uses nukes today, their use will become more acceptable.
“Israel does not claim to have nukes as there is no point in making an inflamed situation worse by rhetoric”
The next time the Israeli regime seems very worried about making inflamed situations worse will be the first time.
The Israeli regime does not claim to have nukes because, among other things, claiming to have nukes would cost it its US foreign aid absent a change to US law.
That wasn’t the point. Willingness to sacrifice lives was. The Sampson option certainly fits that description.
Is the start of Iran war a condition Democrats imposed onTrump in exchange for not prosecuting him after he leaves office? Israel is just a noise-maker. It will not expose itself in any war. Showing off its might by hitting some targets in Syria — is a performance. Neither Syria nor Russia have responded as a rule. The reason?
Waiting for any real act of hostility against Iranian soil. And planning responses. It is clear to China and Russia that Caspian cannot be breached. Iran has those guarantees. In the modern warfare it will become critical to protect key vulnerabilities .
It is a poor consolation if one side has the greatest offensive plans — but vulnerable to destruction of infrastructure. In Saudi Arabia, Israel and many Middle East countries these are water and electricity.
Wars are something to avoid — and Israel seems to not believe it has vulnerabilities.
Prosecuting Trump for what crimes? None!-just MSM agitprop because an outsider made fools of them and got elected without their blessings.The MSN spewed out bilge.
“Is the start of Iran war a condition Democrats imposed onTrump in exchange for not prosecuting him after he leaves office?”
Wow. That is quite the stretch. Especially considering it is the republicans who have been the most vocal Iran bashers between the two parties and it was a democrat who initiated the JCPOA.
Merry Christmas to the Nutty psychopath, evil personified.
25 years Netanyahu has been on about this. Iran is NOT the aggressor, Bibi, it is you and your US supporters.
Get real.Wiki the numerous Hezbollah attacks- the torture and murder of the US station chief in Beirut, the Beirut bombing, two hate attacks against Jews in Argentina,50,000 missiles pointed against Israel, defacto control of Lebanon, bombing after bombing after bombing-especially against civilians. Iran has called for the destruction of Israel,prepared its people with years of hate cartoons, and fires missiles against settlements. Oh-lets not forget Hezboallah involvement in the drug trade.
Military action against Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria is also on the Table SatanYaboo…!