An Israeli deputy prime minister on Friday warned that Iran would face attack if it pursues what he said was its nuclear weapons programme.
“If Iran continues its nuclear weapons programme, we will attack it,” said Shaul Mofaz, who is also transportation minister.
He won’t get any support from President Barack Hussein Obama until after Tel Aviv is a smoking ruin, IMHO! It would be hard to avoid or misinterpret intelligence like that.
Oh, brother! If the Israelis want to attack Iran, go ahead! I’m sick and tired of our tax dollars propping up the militaristic government of Israel, which is located on lands stolen from others by the Western Powers.
It was the Germans who persecuted the Jews (and others) in the Holocaust. The Jews should have been given a chunk of Germany in which to found a Jewish State.
(Ok, now let the pro-Zionist types come out of the woodwork! I’m an anti-Semite, right?) 😉
I have a friend who says the best way to solve the world’s problems and the U.S.’s problems is to make CA the Jewish State. It gets the Jews out of the Middle East and the surrounding hatred and aggression of the Islamists, and it allows the Jews to put in order the land of fruits and nuts. Works for me.
But, Little Cabbage, the idea of a Jewish state dates from before WWII and the Holocaust. Looking at the end of WWI gives a much better perspective on why Israel was created.
These idiots have been at each other’s throats ever since the Jewish Diaspora. It’s a civil war! Let the fools fight it out, and may the best man win!
Branford, the problem has always been that the modern nation of Israel was founded on land which had been inhabited and cultivated for hundreds of years by a combination of Christians, Jews and Muslims. The Jews (with Western backing, some unofficial and some official) STOLE that land and the homes that were there. And they destroyed families and communities. If that had happened in suburban USA, there’d be quite a commotion! It’s an ugly truth, and it happened.
‘What happened after WWI’ was the Western Powers carved up the map of Europe, Africa and the Middle East to their own liking, choosing to ignore the needs, desires and cultures of the people already living in those places. It was gunboat diplomacy, and economic imperialism. The ‘nation’ of Iraq was a prime example of this ignorant and dangerous mindset. The mapmakers in Europe chose to draw a line on a map and lump together tremendously disparate peoples (Shia, Kurds, Sunni) and then supported the dictator (called a ‘Shah’) who would do things the way the West wanted them done. Certainly NOT a good example to follow.
And if we start down the road of ‘the idea of a certain people having a certain chunk of real estate for themselves, then we’d best hand ‘Kurdistan’ over to the Kurds, ‘Macedonia’ to the Macedonians’, ‘Tibet’ to the ‘Tibetans’, and the USA to the Iroquois, Seminole and other nations that were here ‘first’. There are many, many examples.
Why is it that when one mentions that those persecuted in the Holocaust should have been handed the keys to GERMAN land and homes that so many people think it’s outrageous? It would have made a lot more sense than what happened to the Palestinians (many of them Christians, btw).
The next US Administration (whomever heads it) has many years of fence-mending to do before it will be again respected in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, or most anywhere else in the Middle East.
The question is “How do we mend those fences?”
Little Cabbage, I hope you know that your description is just as much a partisan exaggeration as is the heroic Jewish one in which no bad deeds at all are committed. In particular, STOLE.
If you mean the Shah of Iran, Persia has a long history as a nation. Palestine has none.
#8 except that Palestinians were living there, like… forever.
I admit, if I were Iran, hearing this would make me want to hasten building a nuclear weapon. Unfortunately, this kind of rhetoric indicates to Iran that it is, in fact, Israel that controls US policy. I don’t believe it, but if I were working in the Iranian diplomatic corps, I would wonder….