Ross: ‘US military aid would delay Israeli strike’
By Ted Belman
The NYT and the Obama administration is going all out to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran at least until after the elections but I think further.
Dennis B. Ross, says in an opinion piece published by the New York Times on Friday that by bolstering Israel’s military capabilities with “additional bunker-busting bombs, tankers for refueling aircraft and targeting information,” the US could allay the Jewish state’s impatience to attack the Islamic Republic and that the move would “extend the clock” on a possible military operation, thus allowing the White House to exhaust all diplomatic measures that could deem the military option unnecessary.
The problem is that no one has confidence in such “diplomatic measures”. For example. the US slowly escalates sanctions but immediately renders them harmless by exempting so many countries and companies from them. The US is not serious.
Romney: US must stop Iran’s genocidal regime
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday that the US “must lead the world in stopping Iran’s genocidal regime from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability.”
Romney’s comments came after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Israel is a “tumor” that needs to be wiped out. The Republican presidential candidate reiterated remarks he made in a visit to Jerusalem in July, claiming: “We have seen the horrors of history. We will not stand by. We will not watch them play out again.”
NYT: A Settler Leader, Worldly and Pragmatic
Dani Dayan brought this profile to my attention. The person who wrote it is the resident NYT correspondent. I think it is fabulous that the New York Times has posted this article in addition to posting the Op-Ed of his, Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay. It is so rare for the NYT to publish anything favourable to Israel. On the other hand, Seth Mandel of Commentary attacked almost everything he wrote and called his proposal “wrongheaded”. I came to Dayan’s defense with Is the two-state solution doable? A few days later Atlantic posted a major article, Dani Dayan’s War which surprisingly was fair. ITS GREAT THAT DANI IS GETTING THIS COVERAGE. Ted Belman
Iran and Syria enter mutual defence pact
At the bottom of the Debka Post on chemical weapons was this report that I feel should have been giving top billing:
Jalili promised him that guarantee. He also held a similar conversation with HIzballah’s Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Thus the Syrian War cannot be viewed in isolation from the probable attack on Iran
Bracing for chemical attack
Syria’s neighbors braced for chemical threat.Assad warns Turkey on Stingers
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 17, 2012, 10:14 AM
U.S. sidelines Syrian National Council, reaches out to opposition inside
ANKARA – The United States is backing away from the Syrian National Council and reaching out to opposition groups inside Syria in hastened attempts to foster a democratic political transition in the event of President Bashar Assad’s fall.
Mohammad Sarmini, a Muslim Brotherhood-aligned SNC spokesman, said attempts were made to meet with Clinton to discuss ways to assist the Syrian opposition, but the U.S. refused.
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