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Post by jdredd on Mar 16, 2012 14:15:04 GMT -5
www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/03/israel-iran-and-america"But Israel has even less control over its own destiny than Portugal or Britain do. The main reason is that, unlike those countries, Israel refuses to give up its empire. Israel is unable to sustain its imperial ambitions in the West Bank, or even to articulate them coherently. Having allowed its founding ideology to carry it relentlessly and unthinkingly into what Gershom Gorenburg calls an "Accidental Empire" of radical religious-nationalist settlements that openly defy its own courts, Israel is politically incapable of extricating itself. The partisan battles engendered by its occupation of Palestinian territory render it less and less able to pull itself free. It is immobilised, pinned down, in a conflict that is gradually killing it. Countries facing imperial twilight, like Britain in the late 1940s, are often seized by a sense of desperate paralysis. For over a decade, the tone of Israeli politics has been a mix of panic, despair, hysteria and resignation." "Having trapped themselves in a death struggle with Palestinians that they cannot acknowledge or untangle, Israelis have psychologically displaced the source of their anxiety onto a more distant target: Iran. An Iranian nuclear bomb would not be a happy development for Israel. Neither was Pakistan's, nor indeed North Korea's. The notion that it represents a new Holocaust is overstated, and the belief that the source of Israel's existential woes can be eliminated with an airstrike is mistaken. But Iran makes an appealing enemy for Israelis because, unlike the Palestinians, it can be fitted into a familiar ideological trope from the Jewish national playbook: the eliminationist anti-Semite."
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Post by jdredd on Sept 27, 2012 19:37:10 GMT -5
So Bibi went to the UN with a cartoon bomb for dummies to try to make his case for war. Reminds me when Colin Powell went there with his cartoon drawings of imaginary "Biolabs on wheels" as a pretext for invading Iraq.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 27, 2012 19:55:53 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I think the odds are great that we WILL go to war with Iran, frankly because the world is run by buffoons, and I include Obama among those. If he lets Bibi sucker him into war he WILL be our Worst President.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 28, 2012 21:07:18 GMT -5
So the story is Bibi phoned Barry and said he was "in agreement" with him, and that nothing would happen to Iran before next spring or summer. I'm wondering, is there a quid pro quo behind the scenes, that if Bibi holds off making trouble until after November 6, Barry will give Bibi something later? I bet I can guess what that might be.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 28, 2012 22:44:29 GMT -5
I just thought of something. If Barry got Bibi to agree to hold off attacking Iran before the election by promising him support for a War to be Held at a Later Date, little Bibi has sure stabbed his right wing supporters here in the USA in the back!
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Post by jdredd on Oct 25, 2012 3:19:18 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/10/20121024142531802810.html"Sudan has accused Israel of bombing a military arms factory, threatening retaliation after a resulting fire killed two people and injured a third. Referring to the attack which occurred at about midnight local time (21:00 GMT) on Tuesday at the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in south Khartoum, Ahmed Bilal Osman, culture and information minister, said: "We think Israel did the bombing." In his comments on Wednesday, he said: "We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose." Osman said four "radar-evading" aircraft were involved in the attack. It took troops several hours to contain the blaze. On Thursday, a top Israeli defence official labeled Sudan a "dangerous terrorist state", following the accusations that his country was responsible for the attack. "Sudan is a dangerous terrorist state. To know exactly what happened, it will take some time to understand," Amos Gilad told Israel's army radio. Asked directly whether Israel was involved in the attack, Gilad, who serves as director of policy and political-military affairs at the defence ministry, refused to reply directly." Such is the great scam of the "War on Terrorism": Anybody you feel like bombing you just call a "terrorist state" and bomb away. To heck with national sovereignty, it's a dead concept.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 17, 2012 0:50:26 GMT -5
Looks like Israel is going to war...again. They should be able to stomp Gaza to the ground, considering the disparity in military power. Yet things are not quite the same, and the possibility of things going out of control are higher now that Egypt is no longer a bought American vassel. And even Turkey can no longer be depended on to follow the American line.
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Post by Turk on Nov 17, 2012 12:27:59 GMT -5
Looks like Israel is going to war...again. They should be able to stomp Gaza to the ground, considering the disparity in military power. Yet things are not quite the same, and the possibility of things going out of control are higher now that Egypt is no longer a bought American vassel. And even Turkey can no longer be depended on to follow the American line. When the Obama funded muslim brotherhood (1.5 billion dollars) funnels money to Hamas and al-Qaida to launch rockets into another country that country should blow the shit out of the baspersons.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 17, 2012 13:12:16 GMT -5
Sorry, I accidentally messed with your post.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 17, 2012 13:13:52 GMT -5
Looks like Israel is going to war...again. They should be able to stomp Gaza to the ground, considering the disparity in military power. Yet things are not quite the same, and the possibility of things going out of control are higher now that Egypt is no longer a bought American vassel. And even Turkey can no longer be depended on to follow the American line. When the Obama funded muslim brotherhood (1.5 billion dollars) funnels money to Hamas and al-Qaida to launch rockets into another country that country should blow the shit out of the baspersons. Oh, I'm sure they will, but time is not on the side of the Israelis.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 21, 2012 2:52:11 GMT -5
The silver lining to Israel pulverizing a defenseless Gaza is that Israel will be less likely to go to war with Iran.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 23, 2012 1:36:33 GMT -5
www.tnr.com/blog/plank/110403/did-israel-win-its-latest-war"In preventing an escalation in Gaza, though, Netanyahu can now restore focus on Iran. Three times in the last six years, Israel has been lured into fighting Hamas and Hezbollah, two terror organizations aligned with Iran. Given the possibility of a looming Israeli confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program, government officials here reasoned that it was better not to continue to deplete Israeli resources on diversionary conflicts with Iran's proxies." Well, there goes the silver lining...
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Post by Tired in CV on Nov 24, 2012 1:32:03 GMT -5
Looks like Israel is going to war...again. They should be able to stomp Gaza to the ground, considering the disparity in military power. Yet things are not quite the same, and the possibility of things going out of control are higher now that Egypt is no longer a bought American vassel. And even Turkey can no longer be depended on to follow the American line. Well, Turkey is asking the U.S. for missiles (Russia is somewhat concerned about that). So, as for following the American line just how badly do they want those missiles?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 24, 2012 3:15:55 GMT -5
Looks like Israel is going to war...again. They should be able to stomp Gaza to the ground, considering the disparity in military power. Yet things are not quite the same, and the possibility of things going out of control are higher now that Egypt is no longer a bought American vassel. And even Turkey can no longer be depended on to follow the American line. Well, Turkey is asking the U.S. for missiles (Russia is somewhat concerned about that). So, as for following the American line just how badly do they want those missiles? Good point.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 20, 2013 18:26:31 GMT -5
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