From:
America Must Not Buy Into Israel's Warmongering
(policymic.com) -- by David Dietz --
...The Israeli military, half of the U.S. Congress, and the conservative punditocracy in the media would make you believe that Iran is days away from developing a bomb and only a few weeks at that from destroying Israel. Last year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed, "You don't want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the world should start worrying, and that's what is happening in Iran." Such a foreboding threat remains very real and scary but also sounds somewhat familiar.
If so, it was because that wasn't the first time Netanyahu had made such claims. Netanyahu had also declared that Iran was 3 to 5 years away from possessing nuclear weapons and that such a threat had to be "uprooted by an international front headed by the U.S." Unlike his earlier premonition above, he wasn't using such a warning to pressure Obama to go to war; rather it was Bill Clinton he was speaking to, way back in 1992.
The Israeli PM continually requests that we take the Iranian regime's threats against Israel seriously, and we have, through the toughest international sanctions on Iran the West has ever imposed. If we are to take such bombastic threats by Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on face value and use them as the basis for embargoes against the Islamic Republic, it seems only fair that we take Netayanu's own remarks seriously as well. Yet if we were to look back through his statements on Iran, we would be troubled to find a history of politically motivated war mongering fabrications spanning more than two decades.
We can only surmise that such exaggerated comments are made to stoke fear in both Israeli and American hearts in hopes of drawing both countries into a war against Iran. What else could explain why the departing head of Israel's Mossad spy agency and presumed foremost authority on Iran's nuclear capabilities would flatly contradict Netayahu's findings saying Iran didn't have the capacity to produce a bomb until 2015 at the earliest...MORE...LINK
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