Wednesday 18 March 2009

Ashkenazi from Washington : "IDF must prepare to strike Iran"

In Haaretz, here
Posted by G, Z, & or B at 4:03 AM


ARAD: "..Israel to strike "everything and anything of value,.. their leadership ..their holiest sites.. everything together.."


"...Professor Uzi Arad who was responsible for research in the Mossad and later top adviser to the then Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, advocated "maximum deterrence." Israel should threaten to strike "everything and anything of value," he said.

Should Israel threaten to hit their leadership? Yes. Their holiest sites? Yes. Everything together? Yes, Arad recommended.

However Isaac Ben-Israel, a retired major general who heads Tel Aviv University's Security Studies Program doubted deterrence would succeed..."


Posted by G, Z, & or B at 3:49 PM

... and Obama Rebuffs Israeli Hawk

Robert Dreyfuss, in the Nation, here and the neoconish WorldTribune, here

"...there are reports that President Obama's national security team isn't buying the Israeli line that time is running out .........Diplomatic sources said Ashkenazi failed to obtain access to any Cabinet member, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The Israeli military chief, who sought to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat, won't even meet his counterpart, Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff......."The administration is sending a very clear message to Israel, and this is we want to talk about Palestine and not Iran," a diplomat who has been following U.S.-Israel relations said."
Posted by G, Z, & or B at 2:04 PM

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