Kinda looks that way. Israel test-fired a missile from a military base on Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the "direct and heavy threat" posed by Iran's nuclear program. The noon launch near Tel Aviv, which had not been announced in advance, coincided with a week-long surge of speculation in local media that Netanyahu was working to secure cabinet consensus for an attack on Israel's arch-foe. This follows on the heels of some particularly unsubtle language used by Israeli PM Benyamin Neyanyahu. A nuclear Iran would pose a terrible threat on the Middle East and on the entire world. And of course, it poses a great, direct threat on us too.” Then, Netanyahu made news. “A security philosophy cannot rely on defense alone,” he insisted. “It must also include offensive capabilities, which is the very foundation of deterrence. We operate and will continue to operate intensely and determinately against those who threaten the security of the State of Israel and its citizens. Our policy is guided by two main principles: the first is ‘If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first,’ and the second is ‘If anyone harms us, his blood is on his own hands.’” This is all even more pertinent given the actions of our owners, the Chinese, in violating international agreements to trade in forbidden items with the Iranians as McQ pointed out. I find Netanyahu's unveiled threat to be quite refreshing given the usual nature of diplomacy as formalized lying in formal wear or the ever popular nibbling of petit fours and sipping of mint tea by the hotel pool. This was the equivalent of a shotgun blast from the front porch telling would-be thugs this ain't the house you want to be messing with. The fact that Israel has a history of following up warning shots with decapitating strikes makes this all the more believable. We have been whistling past the graveyard regarding the prospect of a nuclear Iran for far too long now. The problem predates Obama, but his inaction and even worse his kow towing to the Mullahs has emboldened them. The Chinese have obviously decided that a more powerful Iran is not a problem for them and with the Russians have ensured that the useless UN remains just that. So who does that leave to ensure that the playground bully doesn't arm himself with a .45? That's right, the folks who actually stand to see a city or two turned into parking lots- the Israelis. The public statements by Netanyahu are obviously aimed at both the Iranians and the "international community" as a last chance to avoid the logical and likely action to come. Iran has picked this fight and I think soon it may learn something others in the area have, Israel doesn't play.
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Nov 03 2011, 01:04 AM
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