Adding more weight to the idea that hitting Iran militarily is a bad move for Israel. Yes, the Iranian nuclear program is a threat, but hitting it, particularly unilaterally, isn’t the way to go. It’s particularly important coming from one of Bibi Netanyahu’s confidantes.
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Yesterday Jon Stewart took almost his entire first two segments to talk about the whole Iran-Israel shtick. A few choice quotes: “That Obama hates Israel. Even Mel Gibson and John Galliano are like, ‘whoa, Obama, take it down,’” and “The parameters for debate in the United States about Israel range from ‘I unequivocally support them and might bomb Iran’ to ‘I unequivocally support them and will definitely bomb Iran.’”
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Bob Carr on the possible future Iran-Israel war: “Australia has one role: to talk the Americans back from the brink.”
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Analysis by the New York Times suggests that even if Israel does want to strike and remove Iranian nuclear targets, it may not even have the capability to do it.
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Hamas’s leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, in a speech in Tehran, pledged to never stop resistance or acknowledge Israel. Of course, eight weeks ago, formerly Damascus based Khaled Mashal said Hamas would be giving up weapons-based resistance and would agree to a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.
Related reading:Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Ismail Haniyeh, Israel, Khaled Mashal, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Peace Process, PLO, Yasser Arafat Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/13/the-two-sides-of-hamas-haniyeh-says-hell-never-recognise-israel-mashal-says-they-will/
Israelis have quite the sense of humour, as Ha’aretz reports: Recent verbal exchanges and remarks concerning alleged Israeli plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program later this year has Israelis scared, and not for the obvious reasons. In a newly launched Facebook page, Israeli fans of U.S. pop megastar Madonna are pleading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off any such plans to strike Iran until the Queen of Pop’s planned [...]
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A good op-ed from James Zoby in HuffPo: “Better than threats, which only serve to embolden Iran, I would suggest a combination of direct engagement (which has been tried too little), continued targeted sanctions (which are having a real impact) and a bit of ridicule.”
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/06/threatening-iran-only-strengthens-it/
The US Navy ship, the very one the Iranian defence minister had been taunting and threatening all week, has saved a dozen Iranian fishermen from pirates. This would have to be one of the more bizarre incidents I’ve ever heard. Not even those with the wildest of imaginations could have dreamt up such a story.
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Very interesting findings on attitudes of Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis from a Brookings Institute poll. Most notably how Arab-Israelis perceive the level of discrimination they suffer within Green line Israel, on how Jewish Israelis see the Iranian nuclear threat, and, most pertinently, that two-thirds of Jewish Israeli think their government should be doing more to get a deal done with the Palestinians.
Related reading:Tags: Apartheid, Arab-Israelis, Brookings Institute, Democracy, Iran, Israel, Jewish-Israelis, Middle East Conflict, Nuclear Weapons, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Peace Process, Poll Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2011/12/07/interesting-results-in-the-brookings-inst-poll-on-opinions-of-jewish-and-arab-israelis/
Donald Trump is tweeting some bizarre things about Obama and Iran.
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