I am a Jew. HathPictures of some Palestinians living in territory controlled by Israel who may die, burn, be torn limb from limb, smashed to smithereens, split all ends up, if Israel bombs Iran and there is retaliation:
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we notrevenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany youteach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.
Israel and Iran: Lethal game of bluffThe enthusiasm of Israel's prime minister and defence minister for an air strike on Iran appears to have united their country's defence and security establishment against them
The war drums have been beating – again – in Israel. The latest alarm was started by two usually well-briefed journalists, Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer, who wrote that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities could come in weeks, rather than months, and before the US presidential election in November. Their story contained a caveat: if the decision to attack were up to Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak alone. Because plainly, it is not.
The enthusiasm of Israel's prime minister and defence minister for an air strike on Iran appears to have united their country's defence and security establishment against them, including Israel's new minister for homeland security. The two have yet even to convince their own inner cabinet. But the report was taken so seriously that Barnea amended it on Monday by speculating that Barak, the thinly disguised source, may be trying to cover his own back, in the knowledge that such an attack will never be launched. Barak's reasoning depends only partially on Iran's alleged actions, and the latest US intelligence assessment that Tehran now possesses 170 kilograms of medium-enriched uranium, from which it is relatively easy to produce bomb-grade material. Barak is worried that so many centrifuges are being hidden underground that they will soon be out of Israel's military reach. After that point, Israel will have to rely on a US president it suspects will never order an attack .
Barak's case for an airstrike now is peppered with inconsistencies – not least the calculation that if Israel attacked, Iran would be rational enough not to retaliate against US military targets in the Gulf and hence the regional war everyone feared would not materialise. This confidence is not shared by his military chiefs. But to take Barak's war-gaming at face value, if Iran were rational enough to contain its response, it would prove that deterrence works for a state Netanyahu continues to describe as an irrational actor motivated by messianism. If Barak is right, the deterrence of mutually assured destruction would work all the more if Iran acquired a bomb, particularly as Israel has several hundred of them.
Loud talk of an impending airstrike could be no more than an attempt to twist Washington's arm. If it is, nothing should stiffen Barack Obama's resolve to prevent it happening more than the thought that Netanyahu is not just playing politics in his own country but in America too. Netanyahu foolishly dares Obama not to cast his veto, because if he did, Mitt Romney his Republican challenger would make hay with the idea that the Democat in the White House endangers Israel's security. This lever will no longer work after the election, hence the November deadline. Even as bluff it is dangerous, and eminently combustible in a tinder-dry Middle East.
nyt's editorial--
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Israel and Iran
Israeli leaders are again talking about possible military action against Iran. This is, at best, mischievous and, at worst, irresponsible, especially when diplomacy has time to run.Iran’s nuclear ambitions are clearly dangerous to the region. Iranian leaders operated a nuclear program in secret for two decades and continued to invest in it even after its discovery in 2002. The government is outspoken in its hatred of Israel. It supports President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and extremist groups like Hezbollah. If Iran gets a weapon, other countries in the region may want one, too.But while Israel’s defense minster, Ehud Barak, suggested on Israel Radio Thursday that Iran had made significant progress toward acquiring weapons capability — citing what he said was a new American intelligence report — there is no proof that Iran is at the point of producing a weapon. Obama administration officials would not confirm the existence of such a report, and, in any case, continue to insist strongly that Iran is not on the verge of achieving a weapon.It is impossible to know what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning or why he has ignored American entreaties to give diplomacy a reasonable chance. There is, however, persistent speculation in Israel that Mr. Netanyahu wants to attack in the coming weeks in the belief that President Obama will be forced to support the decision because of his political needs in his re-election campaign. Such a move would be outrageously cynical.Military action is no quick fix. Even a sustained air campaign would likely set Iran’s nuclear program back only by a few years and would rally tremendous sympathy for Iran both at home and abroad. The current international consensus for sanctions, and the punishments, would evaporate. It would shift international outrage against Mr. Assad’s brutality in Syria to Israel. Many former Israeli intelligence and military officials have spoken out against a military attack. And polls show that many ordinary Israelis oppose unilateral action.Even so, Mr. Netanyahu’s hard-line government has never liked the idea of negotiating with Iran on the nuclear issue, and, at times, seems in a rush to end them altogether. On Sunday, the deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, told Israel Radio that the United States and the other major powers should simply “declare today that the talks have failed.”Of course, it is disappointing that the negotiations have made so little progress. No one can be sure that any mix of diplomacy and sanctions will persuade Iran to give up its ambitions. But the talks have been under way only since April, and the toughest sanctions just took effect in July.There is still time for intensified diplomacy. It will be best served if the major powers stay united and Israeli leaders temper loose talk of war.
--- On Mon, 8/13/12, Durell Douthit <ddouthit@mac.com> wrote:
From: Durell Douthit <ddouthit@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Netanyahu ready to bomb Iran?
Yahoo news reports that Paul Ryan was voted the Chief Brown-Noser in his senior high school class: Republicans have nominated a brown-noser and a cowardly bully at the top of their ticket. Our guy just smoked a little pakalolo.
And now Netanyahu threatens lots of killing.I don’t mind killing as I used to do: dead folks have no egrets, feel no loss, don’t miss sunrises or loved ones; and the world has plenty of people; maybe too many; we can afford to lose a few million; we’ll replace them quickly. I don’t like the manner of their taking off: bodies burned, ripped limb from limb, smashed to smithereens, split all ends up; but it’s all over in a few hours or days or months or years. And that’s the human way of it.It’s the ones left behind whom I mourn. It is not good to be left behind.I’ll stop Israelis from making suffering remainders, at home and in Iran. I think I can sill do it. I’m 100% successful to date. I could use a little help, please. Write something to someone. Be indignant or mournful, a suits your temperament. Play tricks on their minds. Enjoy the act of writing to someone to prevent the Bombs from falling.REM:This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one 've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
Fire (she's comin' down on her own, now)
Fire (she's comin' down on her own, now)Youtube:
Baddog.Ltd accompanies the pic above with the words to this Iggy Pop song, thanks to capturedguy:
Lost Boys, Wayward Angels and Dead End Kids: Pikture 11
Get into the carWe'll be the passengerWe'll ride through the city tonightWe'll see the city's ripped backsidesWe'll see the bright and hollow skyWe'll see the stars that shine so brightStars made for us tonightAnd everything was made for you and meAll of it was made for you and meSo let's take a ride and see what's mine
Iggy Pop - The Passenger Youtube:
if he goes ahead, I'm afraid Obama will be drawn into war, lest Romney attack him for abandoning Israel.
doesn't anyone have the temerity to confront Netanyahu?
you've held them off so far--
quick, you've got to do something before it's too late to save us all--
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/world/middleeast/time-to-call-diplomatic-effort-on-iran-a-failure-israeli-official-says.html?hp
