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Friday, 17 August 2012

JCSG Gen. Dempsey to Israel: 'Without us there is not much you can do & don't assume for a second that we are dancing to your tune!'

Via FLC

' Israel is not America, it does not possess the same capabilities...'
May God protect General Dempsey!
"... The general's remark was not a slip-of-the-tongue. It was a calculated statement from a general of Irish descent and character. His words constituted a slap in Israel's face, a punch in the face, and a kick to the most sensitive part of the body. To be more precise, the US slammed Israel's head against the wall and said: "Shut up. Stop babbling about Iran. Without us there is not much you can do, and don't assume for a second that we are dancing to your tune. You shouldn't do anything stupid, and stop driving the entire world crazy." 
 This was the message behind Dempsey's comment. You don't believe it? Just imagine what would have happened had an American general, after decades of ambiguity, would have held a press conference and announced that Israel does not have nuclear weapons, or that it does.

Now think again about the meaning of Dempsey's statement, which was made after months and even years in which Israel was building up its image as an omnipotent power in the Middle East. Dempsey's comments can even be considered earth-shattering: The US, Israel's closest ally and confidante, has decided to bring the Jewish state's leadership to its knees and hurt our exaggerated self-confidence and undermine our deterrence. No less.
Dempsey was painfully clear.  
He basically said that Israel should not disregard the opinions of its top security officials, stop the constant chatter on Iran and refrain from any acts that may have an adverse effect on the global economy. The general also meant to tell Israel that it mustn't believe that Netanyahu has any control over the US because he has friends in the Republican Party. Dempsey laid down the facts: Israel is not America, it does not possess the same capabilities, and if Netanyahu and Barak continue wreaking havoc – Israel won’t have America either.

It will take a while before we will be able to gauge the depth of the current crisis between Israel and the US (and between Netanyahu and Obama). Washington made a strategic decision to show Israel who is the mentor and who is the protégé. The US hit Israel's most sensitive nerve: The pride in its military power. But it appears that the US had no other choice. After weeks of belligerent headlines, President Obama had enough of Netanyahu's inclination to play with fire. We should start getting used to it. ..."
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Local EditorYisrael Ziv: Any Attack on Iran Will Ignite a Regional War
Channel 7

Former "IDF" Operations Commander Yisrael Ziv told Army Radio that any "Israeli" military attack on Iran would ignite a regional war. In an interview with the Army Radio, Ziv said that attacking Iran cannot be compared with the aerial strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, "We are talking about a number of operations and not just one."
He also warned from the media campaign launched by the Prime Minister and the Defense Ministry which he considered a signal of "worrisome lack of security in the government."
On the other hand, Deputy Prime Minister, "Silvan Shalom," stated a different position and called for giving the international community sanctions against Iran a chance.
In the meantime, a senior "Israeli" official pointed out that the important progress toward nuclear weapons, which Iran has achieved in the recent period, is the development of necessary capacities to produce a nuclear warhead. The same official noted that the new intelligence information that arrives from the United States, "Israel" and other countries state that the final stage of the military nuclear program is progressing quicker than it had seemed recently. " ــــــــــــــــــــــ

Netanyahu: Threat to "Israel's" Home Front Dwarfed by Threat of Nuclear Iran
"Israel" Hayom - Shlomo Tsezna
At the beginning of the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu repeated the statement that he has already said in the past, "bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran and its consequences are less dangerous than a nuclear bomb in the hands of the Ayatollah regime. "All threats directed at the "Israeli" home front are dwarfed by another threat, different in its magnitude and substance, and so I have repeated and shall repeat: Iran must not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons." Netanyahu went on to say, "since 1991, governments did not invest enough in home front defense, I think that there has been a great change under our government. We established a separate ministry to deal with this.

Ministers hold bi-weekly meetings, along with the National Security Adviser, and monitor the necessary steps to upgrade home front defense. We are investing billions in home front defense, in Iron Dome, in the Arrow, and in other systems that are under development. We are investing a lot of money in defending facilities, institutions and homes. We are holding preparedness exercises for various scenarios regarding home front defense. We are upgrading our warning systems, in which "Israel" is among the most developed in the world and we are doing other things which I shall not detail here."

Netanyahu called again on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon not to participate in the Non-Aligned Summit to be held in Tehran." He must not give legitimacy to a regime that disseminates horrific anti-Semitism, the likes of which we have not seen in several decades, and to a regime that declares its intention to destroy the State of "Israel", that violates all UN decisions, not just against its nuclear program, but against the convention against genocide as well."
 
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