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- This May Be Even Better Than A Direct Israeli Threat To Iran
Israel Warns Hezbollah: We Will Flatten Southern Lebanon If You Retaliate To An Attack On Iran There have been lots of threats by the US, and by Israel, over the past five or six years. But when Israel levels a direct and violent threat against Hizbollah...
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Obama's National Security Adviser Says Iran May Attack Israel....From Weasel Zippers: Just the excuse Israel would need... WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's national security adviser is citing a heightened risk that Iran will respond...
- The Bush Administration Wanted Israel To Attack Syria
This, if true, confirms what I thought was going on in the Hizbollah/Israel War. It seemed to me obvious that Bush was doing everything he could to publicly signal to Israel that they had our absolute support in attacking Syria, and possibly even Iran....
- Israel Planning For War Against Iran And Syria
From the London Times: THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources. The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink...
- Arab Times Editor-in-chief: Israel Is Doing The Arab People A Favor
Man bites dog at the Arab Times: PEOPLE of Arab countries, especially the Lebanese and Palestinians, have been held hostage for a long time in the name of “resisting Israel.” Arab governments have been caught between political obligations and public...
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The Bush Doctrine: The Restoration Of The Caliphate?
It looks like that is turning out to be the plan. First, there is this from Epaminondas (in greater length a few posts down):
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration plans to involve Iran in its exit strategy for Iraq and has decided not to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. Administration sources said President Bush has decided that barring a "catastrophic development," the United States would not attack Iran.
The sources said the administration has been conveying the decision to U.S. allies in the Middle East. "The United States has decided that Iran's cooperation was needed for a withdrawal from Iraq," an administration source said.
"There won't be a situation where there will be cooperation and then war with Iran."
The decision marks a rejection of more than two years of Israeli appeals for a U.S. military option against Iran.
The sources said Bush was swayed by his intention to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq as well as an intelligence assessment that an air strike would not destroy all or most of Iran's nuclear weapons facilities.
"The hidden message [to Israel] was that if we don't do it [strike Iran], you definitely don't do it," the source said.
Then, there's this. When you think about it, between the idiocy of the Israeli government and the pressure the Bush Administration puts on Israel to deal with the Hamas coalition, we now have a situation where Israel is now boxed in between three pro-Iran entities:
The law of unintended consequences continues to throw up more consequences that were not intended. Israel is now boxed in between three pro-Iran entities (Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas) and two pro-al Qaeda terrorist groups — Hezbollah that is dominant in Lebanon to the north and Hamas that now controls Gaza, the size of Washington, D.C., to the south.
Both are sworn enemies of the Jewish state. Hamas, a radical offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, first rose to prominence by planning and executing the first intifada against Israeli occupation in 1987. Like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas also runs welfare services for the poor, which in Gaza is almost the entire population of 1.5 million.
In 2006, Hamas startled the world and frightened Israel by winning legislative elections and seizing control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its ministries. It refuses to deal with Israel and shares the conviction of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel's demise is preordained.
And, of course, under the Bush watch, we now have a situation where, due to our inaction on Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are also embarking on developing nuclear weapons. Because Bush has steadfastly refused to follow up on his own doctrine of no tolerance for terror-supporting states, we are faced with an ever-stronger Ummah, poised to destroy Israel, and then move on to the Iberian Peninsula.
Can everyone say, Andalusia?
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration plans to involve Iran in its exit strategy for Iraq and has decided not to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. Administration sources said President Bush has decided that barring a "catastrophic development," the United States would not attack Iran.
The sources said the administration has been conveying the decision to U.S. allies in the Middle East. "The United States has decided that Iran's cooperation was needed for a withdrawal from Iraq," an administration source said.
"There won't be a situation where there will be cooperation and then war with Iran."
The decision marks a rejection of more than two years of Israeli appeals for a U.S. military option against Iran.
The sources said Bush was swayed by his intention to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq as well as an intelligence assessment that an air strike would not destroy all or most of Iran's nuclear weapons facilities.
"The hidden message [to Israel] was that if we don't do it [strike Iran], you definitely don't do it," the source said.
Then, there's this. When you think about it, between the idiocy of the Israeli government and the pressure the Bush Administration puts on Israel to deal with the Hamas coalition, we now have a situation where Israel is now boxed in between three pro-Iran entities:
The law of unintended consequences continues to throw up more consequences that were not intended. Israel is now boxed in between three pro-Iran entities (Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas) and two pro-al Qaeda terrorist groups — Hezbollah that is dominant in Lebanon to the north and Hamas that now controls Gaza, the size of Washington, D.C., to the south.
Both are sworn enemies of the Jewish state. Hamas, a radical offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, first rose to prominence by planning and executing the first intifada against Israeli occupation in 1987. Like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas also runs welfare services for the poor, which in Gaza is almost the entire population of 1.5 million.
In 2006, Hamas startled the world and frightened Israel by winning legislative elections and seizing control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its ministries. It refuses to deal with Israel and shares the conviction of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel's demise is preordained.
And, of course, under the Bush watch, we now have a situation where, due to our inaction on Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are also embarking on developing nuclear weapons. Because Bush has steadfastly refused to follow up on his own doctrine of no tolerance for terror-supporting states, we are faced with an ever-stronger Ummah, poised to destroy Israel, and then move on to the Iberian Peninsula.
Can everyone say, Andalusia?
Consider the results of our not having followed through on the original Bush Doctrine:
We tolerate a Hamas-led coalitional government, and a later Hamas coup d'etat of Gaza and
Gaza's Christians Fear For Their Lives
We tolerate Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraq, and he now controls 30% of the Iraqi Parliament and
Iraqi Christians Flee
We tolerate the assassination of the Lebanese President Hariri (who happened to be a Christian by the way), the Hizbollah war, and the gradual takeover of Lebanon by Hizbollah's forces, and
Lebanese Christians Flee
- This May Be Even Better Than A Direct Israeli Threat To Iran
Israel Warns Hezbollah: We Will Flatten Southern Lebanon If You Retaliate To An Attack On Iran There have been lots of threats by the US, and by Israel, over the past five or six years. But when Israel levels a direct and violent threat against Hizbollah...
-
Obama's National Security Adviser Says Iran May Attack Israel....From Weasel Zippers: Just the excuse Israel would need... WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's national security adviser is citing a heightened risk that Iran will respond...
- The Bush Administration Wanted Israel To Attack Syria
This, if true, confirms what I thought was going on in the Hizbollah/Israel War. It seemed to me obvious that Bush was doing everything he could to publicly signal to Israel that they had our absolute support in attacking Syria, and possibly even Iran....
- Israel Planning For War Against Iran And Syria
From the London Times: THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources. The conflict with Hezbollah has led to a strategic rethink...
- Arab Times Editor-in-chief: Israel Is Doing The Arab People A Favor
Man bites dog at the Arab Times: PEOPLE of Arab countries, especially the Lebanese and Palestinians, have been held hostage for a long time in the name of “resisting Israel.” Arab governments have been caught between political obligations and public...