Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Fox News that the Israeli military is updating its plans to strike Iran’s nuclear program and is prepared to act independently.
Gantz falsely portrayed Iran’s recent steps to advance its civilian nuclear program as the Islamic Republic racing to develop a bomb, something he said Israel would stop. “If the world stops them before, it’s very much good. But if not, we must stand independently and we must defend ourselves by ourselves,” he said.
Gantz cited nuclear activity that Iran is willing to quickly reverse if the US lifts sanctions and returns to the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. But Gantz, like most Israeli officials, is opposed to a revival of the agreement.
Israeli officials have been making veiled threats about attacking Iran if President Biden rejoins the JCPOA. Other incidents in the region that are being blamed on Iran are causing some to fear that Israel might be preparing an attack sooner rather than later.
Without providing evidence for the claim, Israel blamed Iran for an explosion on an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that happened last week. No crew members were hurt, and the ship was back at sea a few days after the incident. When asked about possible retaliation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “striking at” Iran throughout the region.
On Wednesday, Israel blamed Iran for another incident in the region. Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel claimed Iran was responsible for a large oil spill that hit Israel last month. Surprisingly, Israeli military and intelligence officials doubted Gamliel’s claim, as did other officials in the Environmental Protection Ministry.
Regardless of whether Iran was responsible or not, Israel could be planning a strike against the Islamic Republic over the two incidents. Sources told Business Insider that the Biden administration and its European allies are fearing that Israel is planning a “substantial” attack on Iran.
And while Biden cares so much about carbon emissions and saving the planet — he clearly is not distresses about Israel planning to pollute the globe by bombing nuclear facilities and releasing nuclear particles into atmosphere, soil and water.
And Israel possesses already a large stock of nuclear weapons, without a verifiable safety mechanisms.
“verifiable safety mechanisms”-who verifies the safety of the weapons possessed by any other nuclear power?
ANY other ROGUE nuclear power?
If a country does not sign an agreement, they cannot be accused of violating that agreement.
True.
And also true that they have no standing to invoke that agreement versus others.
This is “the game”. An attorney pleads his clients case as best as he can. Only difference is Iran has no borders with Israel,yet has sworn to destroy it, and massed gangster armies on Israel’s borders.
Let me show you “the game” : Syria has invited Iran to comes to within its borders. Israel doesn’t like the neighborhood .It should pack and go somewhere .
Israel is a free country and will do as it requires, Jewish people and a Jewish natoin will no longer submit to Czarist edict, evictions, and wanna be pogromchicks.
Israel is an independent country that will do as it sees fit to protect its people. Jewish people need not submit to Czarist expulsions,edicts or would be Pogromchicks.
“has no borders” but then masses gigantic armies on Israel’s borders?
Try to go to a criminal court and tell the judge : I” don’t believe in your power “. Hey may be Iran should get out of IAEA and kick IAEA out and start building nukes .
If you don’t belong to the club, the club can’t tell you what to do.
Yes and you cant tell club what to do . Israel should stop referring to IAEA ,expressing concerns about IAEA and should stop bribing Bob Menenedz ( many versions of him exist in Germany G=France and UK ) to carry water for Israel in IAEA .
Is Israel member of NPT?
Any inspection conducted by IAEA in any Israeli nuclear facility?
Powers like US and Russia have gone through many rounds of nuclear treaties, verifying each other’s capacities. Not perfect — but there is a great deal of transparency.
Israel’s nuclear program and weapons are completely rogue, not subject to any inspection or even discussion!
You conveniently neglected China, France, and the UK. Since when does an independent country have to submit to the IAEA or your standards, as far as the security of its citizens.
Iran comes to mind.
Only difference is that Iran has sworn to destroy Israel, and has massed its terrorist armies on Israel’s northern border. Iran,while extremely patient, has an apocalyptic worldview
Show us the “Only difference is that Iran has sworn to destroy Israel.”
Do your own googling and then step into the real world
I google and see Israel is lying projecting it’s inner soul.
If so, it was the pogromchicks that made made them that way.
Meanwhile the apartheid regime bombs all of their neighbors at will.
Here we go again, fairytales.
Here we go again, fairytales.
Oh they did? Not Israel but the apartheid ruling government that treats their non-Jewish subjects like the Nazis treated the Jews in 1930s Germany, while the world looked elsewhere.
Oh they did? Not Israel but the apartheid ruling government that treats their non-Je/wish subjects like the Nazis treated the J/ews in 1930s Germany, while the world looked elsewhere.
Just wonder why there are 15 Israeli Arabs members of Parliament and one Israeli Arab Chief Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court. In a recent survey, 90 % of Israeli Arab Citizens said that they were happy living in Israel. There are about 2.2 million Arab citizens living and working in Israel. Many university graduates who are working in many areas from Academia, Medicine, IT, Law Enforcement ,Manufacturing, Agriculture, research and other disciplines. Israeli Arabs live under some of the highest standards of living in the middle east, income no different then Israelis. One more thing, some 150,000 west bank residence cross over the border every day and work in Israel. Israel is booming and can use another 150,000 workers from the West Bank, but the Palestinian Authority will not allow any more. Israeli Companies would like to build more factories in the West Bank that pay 3X as much as local employers, again, the Palestinian Authority will not allow.
No, they haven’t. You can keep saying it but that won’t make it true. They’ve called for regime change as has been pointed out over and over and if you could speak Farsi, you’d understand that. But instead you spew the well versed neocon talking points like your fellow Israeli firsters here. And by using the word “massed” do you think that makes your point more believable? As though there are brigades of military assets just waiting for the word to attack while Israel bombs them with impunity and they do absolutely nothing in response. You truly are a clown.
1.Can you speak Farsi?
2.Just change massed to skillfully deployed.
3.They said that Hitler’s words in Mein Kampf were rhetoric.
4.Regime change means an Iranian flag over Jerusalem-they display this.
4.Only a fool such as yourself clings to irrational beliefs.
5. It was the pogroms of the Ukraine that helped spur Zionism.
1.Can you speak Farsi?
No, I cant. But I can read the interpretation that you Israeli firsters continuously refuse to do. They want the Israeli regime erased from the pages of time. Same thing the US and Israel discuss about Iran like they’re planning a lunch date.
2.Just change massed to skillfully deployed.
Doesn’t change anything. Still exaggerated bulsh*t.
3.They said that Hitler’s words in Mein Kampf were rhetoric.
Ah yes, the Hitler comparison. Saddam, Assad and all those scary Hitler reincarnations whose militaries are/were a minute fraction of the US or even the little parasite with her nukes.
4.Regime change means an Iranian flag over Jerusalem-they display this.
Any links or just talking out of your a$$ again?
4.Only a fool such as yourself clings to irrational beliefs.
Wow, and after what you just printed? And number 5 comes after number 4.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency- Friday Nov 15 2015-shows a large mock up of the Dome of the Rock-which just happens to be in Jerusalem,with an Iranian flag over it.-not even a Palestinian flag, mind you. This was used as center for military maneuvers. Who is the fool now?
That’s a link?
Kindly google Iranian flag over Jerusalem, and hit image-its right there-what are you so afraid of?
It’s on you to prove what you said when you’re stating something as fact, not me. Post a link or shut up.
The evidence would take you about 9 seconds to find. You are afraid of being disproved. The facts are as I stated, and I will continue to to speak freely. Ignorance can be excused, not your arrogance.
And 9 seconds for you to post it but this isn’t about time or “arrogance”. If there are no links with what you are saying, I will take it as your opinion. And since your opinion is always slanted with your blind loyalty towards Israel, I will call it bullsh*t. Now disprove me.
Those are separate policies….the US military is the biggest carbon abuser in the world. Are you saying Biden would be better in some way by ignoring climate change, as the Gop does, and supporting Israel, as the gop does ? What is your point ?
Yes – because climate has been changing for millions of years.
The defense chief of a tiny country smaller than New Jersey with less people stupidly threatens a much larger country with many more people, and more importantly many, many hardened missiles in Iran and Lebanon (Hezbollah) aimed at everything of importance in that tiny country Israel. . . .Go for it, Gantz, and kiss your butt goodbye.
They call it chuzpah (but you labelled it correctly as stupidity), Moshe Dayan once said ‘Israel must act like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.’
Fortunately so far for humanity, the Israelis have been ‘all talk but have never done the walk’.
But assuredly if they dare go for Iran, we all know that the USA will be dragged into it.
Yes they have. They bombed Iraqi nuclear projects.
It is precisely these missiles in Lebanon and Syria that Israel is trying to reduce, to the dismay of the so called antiwar denizens of this site.
After stealing Lebanon’s land, then Syria’s land — what did Israel expect? If you behave badly, you cannot expect to be loved.
And certainly not entitled to destroy missiles that Israel’s long abused neighbors acquired to protect themselves!
You have an interesting version of history. The Israel Lebanon conflict was provoked by years of missile fire by Lebanese based terrorists to say nothing by Lebanese invasion of Israel in 194, or the housing of the terrorists who perpetrated the Ma’alot massacre. What bit of Lebanon is now in Israeli hands? As far as Syria-same deal,you invade. you shoot down from the heights on your neighbor, you loose the heights.
“As far as Syria-same deal,you invade. you shoot down from the heights on your neighbor, you loose the heights.”
By that logic, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Iran should all own Israel’s lands since Israel has launched attacks against all of them from Israeli occupied territories.
I like that logic. Syria, Lebanon and Iran come claim your free land!
The US can’t stop you, too busy retreating from rag tag militias in Afghanistan.
Hahahahahahaha!
They have tried many times and got their butts kicked!
So Israel is secure and doesn’t need to start a war of aggression.
The IDF soldiers who invaded Lebanon in June of 2006 got their own asses kicked by just 3,000 Hezbollah fighters, and the survivors ran back into Israel, crying like babies. I guess they were hoping the US would intervene and annihilate those 3,000 fighters; but the US was too busy with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Israel started fomenting trouble in Lebanon from mid 1970 .It caused terrorism in Lebanon . It wanted a war in Lebanon to steal land and to create bloodshed between Palestinian and local; Lebanese and between Muslim and Christian. it bribed and recruited local to detonate car bombs .
have you ever head of Ma’alot massacre?
No I don’t Did it lead to USA getting killed in Lebanon or something or occupation of a foreign land -like Israel occupation of s Lebanon? What else have you heard ?
If they start treating all of the people they abuse like their own, any opposition to Israel would melt. But master race/chosen people don’t believe all are created equally.
Well you spineless Euros .. What will you do about it? Ban some more BDS activities? Sell Israel some more weapons? Wring your hands? You’ re pathetic vassals who enable war crimes.
Well, what do you expect from Europe? They sold poison gas precursors to Iraq, allow Jewish people to be assaulted in their streets,still persecute Gypsies, and saw Arafat as a hero.
Ehhh . . . the u.s. provided the chemical weapons to President Saddam Hussein.
The Independent- Wednesday Dec 18,2002-A UN security council document-corporations based in Germany,France, and the U.K all supported the Iraqi WMD programs.
At least Iraq did not steal and poison the town , with radioactivity for generations , by the name Apollo in Ohio.
Have you ever heard of CHERNOBYL?
This is your answer! This is your argument ! Israel steals and murders and often steals from its benefactors and murders its benefactors. To make it understandable for you ,I will use a scenario- Its like Hitler’s band is offering the rebuttal against all sorts of accusation in Nuremberg trial by asking “Haven’t you heard of the forest fire in America and carbon monoxide in French Vietnam ?”
Arafat was a hero. Everything else posted above is false as usual.
That is what you really about- abandonment of any shred of truth and logic in order to vent your agenda. This sort of thing is why Zionism was created and is justified.
And the US provided logistical, military help, to target Iranian and Kurdish sites.
Yes and Israel dropped Sarin gas form a plane in 1992 in Amsterdam .
Poison gas is something Russia is very fond of.
Russian plane was flying with Israeli flag )somewhere under the engine )and crews????
Novochuck.
More like Herzl d Ben Gurion ,Jabotinsky’s coordinated farting .Pretty poisonous .
As were the Ukrainan pogroms
The vast majority of Israels military equipment comes from the US.
In the first instance Gantz is obviously threatening the US; but, the hysterical, minatory tone is clearly beyond anything that could be considered appropriate between close friends. In fact, it’s offensive. Could it be Israeli expansionists have run out their string?
Sec. Blinken’s focus is China. Could it be he’s telling BB some version of the TV Detective’s classic line: “Look, son, it’s over. Leave off your megalo dream and wake up to your actual geo-political significance. Do yourself a favor and leave quietly. We’ll install a likely enough successor who will try to limit your ‘haircut’. And, for god’s sake, don’t try going to Moscow.” ??
Blinken is Jewish. He has said his allegiance is to Israel.
When and where did he say that?
Did Saddam ever say he was Iraqi sunni nationalist or partisan? Did he ever say his allegiance was to his clan?
Did Saddam ever say he was Iraqi sunni nationalist or partisan? Did he ever say his allegiance was to his clan?
How can Israel with a straight face claim Iran is racing to develop a nuke, they have been saying this for 15 yrs or more & would have one by now.
The boy who cried wolf comes to mind.
Funny thing, the world not only seems to ignore the psychopathic little boy but many hope the wolf really has come to devour that spoiled little brat.
In 1992 Netanyahu claimed Iran would have nukes in “3 to 5 years”.
While Israel DOES have the bomb. They have not signed the NPT, so there are no inspections by the IAEA. Talk about rogue.
Israel cannot affors to absorb nuclear hits, while Iran can.
Sure – that mentality sounds like the world’s civilizations returning to the Stone Age.
How many nuclear warheads are in Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
I hope many. It has prevented WW3.
But of course. Without Israel’s nukes, the world would engulfed in flames. What utter nonsense.
Having a fallback on Nukes has prevented an Israeli first strike on Irans nuclear facilities.
The utter nonsense continues.
A country of eight million being threatened by a country of eighty million would do well to strike first, unless they have an ace up their sleeves.
The utter nonsense was about WW3 being prevented because Israel has nukes. But off you go.
Push a little guy into a corner enough, and even he will respond.
And the little guy is who, Israel? That is hilarious. The “little guy” with 100 to 300 nukes with the loyal backing of the world’s only super power who has repeatedly stated that Israel’s security guarantee is unwavering. And who is doing the pushing, Iran? That is also hilarious. Never mind they’re being sanctioned into economic devastation and are surrounded with bases from the aforementioned superpower. But as usual, it’s Israel who is the poor picked on victim. It just never ends with you Israeli firsters.
Wow! I thought the zealots were looking for WW3 and WW4. There were this Podohoretz and B Lewis and Joe Loiberman asking very US leader to nuke Iran and start WW3 Then the ugly cadaver baby by name Sheldon paid Trump some money from his trade in vice and labor exploitation to nuke Iran.
You overplay the significance of pipsqueak regime in the world.
You just keep thinking that John,
I’m waiting for him to say … ‘our jets are in the air ! ! !’
What is the end of his hypothetical sentence?
U.S. – ‘No, don’t do it, we’ll invade Iran for you like we did to Iraq, or, ‘don’t do it, we’ll never rejoin the JCPOA’
One thing for sure it won’t be: “We are cutting you off.”
I am glad it annoys you.
I see you have your priorities in order. Are you a citizen of the US or Israel?
US-does it make you happy. And who are you a citizen of? Iran?The Israeli government is not full of angels, but I feel compelled to defend them because of people like you.
I don’t know about you but I don’t want my tax dollars going to either Israel or Iran and that was the gist of my question. But as usual, you’re too dense to pick up on that.
why the hell not?
Because our congress is Israeli occupied territory as Pat Buchanan so succinctly once said.
Before you quote Buchanan, should should review some of his views on Nazism-or perhaps you agree with him?
I agree with him on his take that Israel greatly influences our congress. Why don’t you refute that fact instead of bringing up something that is completely irrelevant to what I said? Or you could go read some of my comments I’ve made to some of Buchanan’s articles and you would find I don’t see eye to eye with him on many issues. But I forget that you’re only interested in defending Israel and your comments are exclusively geared towards articles that are Israeli centric so there is no way you would know that.
If the US wanted to use leverage against Israel’s intentions they could threaten to withhold a part, or all, of the annual $3.8 billion taxpayer donation. But since the Biden administration has stated that donation is sacrosanct, that leaves nothing to deter Israel from carrying on with their arrogance.
Not just cut off aid, sanction, sanction, sanction….
Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility sits deep inside a mountain, with just one structure visible from space. In June 2011, Iran told the IAEA that it was planning to produce medium-enriched uranium, which has a 20% concentration of U-235, at Fordo. In January 2021 the IAEA verified that Iran had begun enriching uranium to 20% in breach of nuclear pact at Fordo. In 2016, Iran stationed anti-aircraft S-300 missile system at the site.
The Natanz fuel enrichment plant (FEP) is Iran’s largest gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility. Natanz is a hardened Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) covering 100,000 square meters that is built 8 meters underground and protected by a concrete wall 2.5 meters thick, itself protected by another concrete wall. Iran says it has begun to build an underground hall near the plant in the wake of a July 2020 explosion that badly damaged a building housing centrifuges.
A 150kt warhead will quite readily dig them out
That would be nuclear.
A suitcase nuke for bibi?
A few missiles to Dimona and that would do .
A few Jericho MIRVS on the Ukraine.
Israel means attacking the fake Iranian targets in Syria…!
Here we go. Israel is saying to the U.S., “so what are you going to do about it?” A big F.U. to the Biden administration.
Israel is blackmailing the US again- but to what end? Do they want us to rejoin the JCPOA (which will slow down any *imaginary* Iranian ambitions) or do they want us to NOT rejoin the JCPOA (which will speed up any *imaginary* Iranian ambitions)? If Iran is an ‘existential threat’ to Israel- as Bibi railed about years ago- why hasn’t Israel taken it upon themselves to DO something about it? Why hasn’t Israel nuked Iran to make sure there’s no trouble?
“It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region” — Grand Ayatola Khamenei, Jan 2001. Thousands of Iranian chant “Death to Israel!” “Death to Israel!” is printed on Iranian missiles. Soleimani boasted of helping Hezbollah in the 2006 war against Israel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered to help anyone willing to attack Israel. That’s war mongering!
Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.
Bull shit!!
“Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.”
Then the Israeli regime should be pushing for an end to sanctions that make it difficult to buy Iranian oil and sell Israeli goods to Iran.
Are they doing that?
It is still doable .But some find it a lot safer cheaper enjoying a lot of privileges and prerogatives without any responsibility or accountability by keeping the war powder keg warm and glowing . From 1998 officially Richard Perle has been saying that his group has been trying to wage war against Iran .
Israel thinks they have an ally in Blinken and the other new faces at State Dept. So they will push the envelope and see if they can get Washington to do more bombing for them.
How convenient is that Israel picks the targets and Blinken/Biden launch the attacks.
tell Israel to F@#ck off!!
all bark and no bite
Showing again who the potential aggressors are.
Reminds me of “all options on the table” and “I don’t bluff” Obama, the hope and change guy who was bully-good on acting against defenseless countries which Iran isn’t.
Tantrums are a problem with religious states. Israel is a religious state and Iran is a religious state. The largest population of Israel’s claimed religion lives in Iran with a different religion’s government and won’t move to live in their own religious state governed by their own religion. This is psychologically too weird for the Israeli religion and so it has no choice other than attack the Iranian religion and kill all those living there who really should be living in Israel. This is the logic of a childish tantrum.
And who SHOULD be living in Israel?
“Happy New Year everyone! “Remember, Christ was a Palestinian refugee – a Jewish Palestinian refugee, who is the founding figure of Christianity, and a beloved prophet for Muslims. The rest is commentary.”
•Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University•
“The largest population of Israel’s claimed religion lives in Iran”
In what universe? There are more Jews in Ramapo, New York than there are in Iran.