[Freeman Note: Why is this portrayed as a BADTHING. Israel has been in a war for survival for over 60 years. It is time to take the gloves off and destroy the enemies of Israel from the East, North, and South. Let all who wish to destroy Israel know that the Hand of the Almighty will rise up and strike them down. Only then will there be PEACE upon the Land of Israel.]
U.S. Source: Strike on Iran Means 'End of Obama,' 20 Year War
Av 4, 5769, 25 July 09 10:43
by Gil Ronen
A 20 year (Israelnationalnews.com) A senior U.S. source told Asharq Al-Awsat that if there is a war against Iran, Barack Obama’s presidency “will be over” and so will the peace process in the Middle East. “An American war on Iran would mean entering a twenty-year battle with the Islamic world starting from Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran,” according to the major pan-Arabic newspaper’s reporter Huda Al Husseini.
“I understood from my source that Obama cannot launch a war against Iran until conditions stabilize,” Husseini wrote. “He cannot embark on a war without negotiating the issue.” Such a war would be “difficult and costly,” she noted, claiming that senior officers in the U.S. army oppose it, asking – “how can we not live with a nuclear Iran if we can live with a nuclear Pakistan, which is less stable than Iran?”
CIA Director Leon Panetta visited Israel two weeks ago and asked to see documents in Israel’s possession that confirm that Iran is producing a nuclear weapon, according to the report. Panetta requested that the Israelis “do not rush into anything.” This was reportedly followed by a similar request from Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will head to Israel along with George Mitchell, the special U.S. envoy to the Middle East, on July 27, for talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Al Husseini speculated that “one of them will talk about war and the other about peace.”
“There is no doubt,” she wrote, “that since the Iranian elections and the internal crisis that followed, (bearing in mind the possibility that this crisis might spill over beyond its borders), the US leadership and Israel, as well as Russia and Europe, will revise their policies towards Iran.”
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Iran to Israel: Hit Us and We’ll Strike Your Nuclear Facilities
Av 4, 5769, 25 July 09 11:45
by Gil Ronen(Israelnationalnews.com) The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday the Persian theocracy would strike Israel's nuclear facilities if Jerusalem attacked the Islamic state, Iran’s state television said. The report was quoted by the Reuters news agency.
"If the Zionist Regime (Israel) attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," warned Mohammad Ali Jafari, the Revolutionary Guards’ commander.
"Our missile capability puts all of the Zionist regime (Israel) within Iran's reach to attack," Jafari said. He added that his country “was not scared" of Israel's military capabilities. "It is part of the psychological war that the West has launched against Iran," Jafari told his audience.
Iranian leaders have said in the past that Iran would retaliate for any attack from Israel by targeting U.S. interests and Israel.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of Hizbullah, an Iranian proxy militia in Lebanon, estimated that Israel would go on the attack “between the end of this year and next spring,” according to Al-Jadid, a Lebanese television channel.
Nasrallah told a group of Lebanese exiles visiting the country that his group intends to target the city of Tel Aviv if the Dahiya is attacked again. The Dahiya headquarters of Hizbullah were demolished by Israel in the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
Clinton backpedals
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. "defense umbrella." Since making the remark on a television show in Thailand, however, Clinton has backpedaled. She explained that was only restating existing policy and not referring to formal guarantees of protection under a U.S. nuclear umbrella.
Clinton backpedals
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that a nuclear Iran could be contained by a U.S. "defense umbrella." Since making the remark on a television show in Thailand, however, Clinton has backpedaled. She explained that was only restating existing policy and not referring to formal guarantees of protection under a U.S. nuclear umbrella.
In response to statements by Israeli officials who thought remarks meant that the U.S. was resigned to a nuclear-armed Iran, Clinton and other State Department officials were quick to reassure Israel that a nuclear Iran was still unacceptable and that there was no change in U.S. policy.
According to the Associated Press, four of the Obama administration’s most senior foreign policy and security officials are scheduled to visit Israel this week “to urge the country to shelve any plan for a military strike to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities.” The four – envoy George Mitchell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Adviser James Jones, and top Iran and Middle East specialist Dennis Ross – will argue that Obama's offer of “engagement” with Iran deserves time to bear fruit.
Officials from the U.S. Treasury Department and other agencies are also due to arrive in Israel later in the week, but “the confluence of visits is coincidental,” administration officials told the news agency.
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