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Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak sharply disagrees with the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear capabilities.

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  • Posted By: Jion @ 02/15/2008 11:35:19 AM

    A nuclear Iran may bring stability and peace to the world. Israel has rejected every peace initiative and even killed Isaac Robin in order to carry on the apartheid of the Palestinians. With American taxpayers money Israel is building settlements on illegal land and with the lives of American Marines Israel is fighting wars on several grounds. Israel has no rival and wants no peace. A powerful Iran would encourage Israel to settle for peace and America will no longer need to carry on wars for Israel. The people of Iran will kick Islam out of Iran once there is no threat from outside.

  • Posted By: brotherlylove @ 02/02/2008 8:31:15 AM

    Everywhere wherever there are muslims there is death, Iraq, Pakistan, India. One Pakistani was interviwed on the BBC and said " we muslims welcome death, there is nothing the west can to us because they cherish life"How can one live in the same world as these animals They even kill people of the same religion worshoping in mosques, kill their fellow Indians on trains, murder B Bhuto, fly aeroplanes full of innocent people into buildings, throw a paraplegic into the sea.

    What is needed is one thing -love. And thou halt love thy neighbour as thyself, this applies to all mankind , orthwerwise mankind is doomed.
    What is the root of all these problems religion, killing amd maiming people in the name of god, how can this be the act of religious people,?Can you imagine my hero Ghandi or mother Terssa or Nelson Mandella doing something like this?
    Whenever there is a tragedy in the muslim world, who helps the poor people, the muslims, no America, Britain Isrel. the Arabs have entold wealth, what do most of them do with it, waste it on 600 wives, cadillacs, fighter jets, missiles, what about the ordinary poor people cold in the mountains in Pakistan without proper housing?

    We are not all idiots, we have eyes and ears, why do put up with all the nonsense we are fed by the media and religious leaders?

    West can

  • Posted By: Sigurdur @ 01/31/2008 3:41:24 AM

    Well we are talking about a state here, the state of Israel, not a band of Muslim brothers. States have to adhere to international law if they don??t want to be labeled rouge nations, like Israel is now labeled by Iceland. As our democratically elected president, Mr. Grimsson, said: when Israel refused to accept the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people it decided to chart its own course. Israel would no longer adhere to democratic principles. It would no longer even try to look westernized, it would just look like the theocracy it is, giving inferior status to the natives, i.e. the Palestinians. Going so far as rounding them up in ghettoes and behind (Berlin) walls or in South African sort of enclaves (bhantus) all deemed reprehensible by the international community. President Grimsson says that in order to be a crime against humanity it is not necessary to kill women and children in gas chambers it is just the same crime against humanity to surround these women and children with American Abrams tanks and shoot them to pieces. Our President Grimsson is a former professor of political science in Iceland.
    Professor Grimsson pointed out that in Iceland, Marxist parties, bent on overthrowing our capitalistic system, were allowed to participate in our elections. Democratic people are not allowed the luxury the Israelis demand for themselves, accepting only the democratic results that go their way. The Israelis are simply not mature enough for democracy. They should take lessons from our President Grimsson.

  • Posted By: Sigurdur @ 01/30/2008 4:18:52 PM

    We do not look upon the Palestinian as aggressors, we look upon them as wictims. After all they were driven from their own land and are not allowed to return, as they should according to international law. When we in Iceland see them rounded up in ghettos and shot at by the jews it is hard to see the human side of the jews. All we see are crimes against humanity. Mark my words, the new Nuremberg trials will be held in the not too distant future, and guess who will be on the stand. It will be the jewish politicians who no longer can trawel to Europe because there they will be dragged into court for crimes agains humanity. The jews are forgin their own isolation and can only blame themselves. Following international law should be fairly simple. Only the jews find it natural using tanks shooting at and killing women and children in palestinian ghettoes.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 01/30/2008 8:37:25 PM

      to Sigurdur: What? Thats funny When Isreal sits idle, they get there citizens kidknapped and shown around the world, on al-jeezera(against the Geneva convention), and that is acceptable...ofcourse its ok to shoot rockets in Isreal also. The Palestinians need to use the world stage to there advantage and allow Isreal to show how they really are if thats the case. Sneaking bomb vests, muntions, and making ass**s out of themselves isnt doing much for there cause. Parading around in celebration during 9-11 wasnt a smart move either....It just goes to show they approve of that terroristic behavior and casts an ugly shadow on themselves. They support Hamas, Sponsored by Iran, and Syria, which hates everyone that goes against there extremist views. So remember that when a school, church, or major public place gets detonated in your neck of the woods, that evil Isreal isnt the one that sponsored it.

  • Posted By: Stop Rot @ 01/30/2008 1:18:12 PM

    "When I dealt with it, there was Yasir Arafat, who we doubted whether he was willing but there was no doubt that he was able." should read along the following lines: "When I dealt with it, there was Yasir Arafat, whose willingness we doubted, but there was no doubt that he was able."

  • Posted By: dunster @ 01/26/2008 5:28:13 PM

    israel noaning and groaning about iran trying to aquire nuclear tec.the usa and world should force the jewish state to dismantle its nuclear bombs.

    • Posted By: Stop Rot @ 01/30/2008 1:06:47 PM

      Why do aggressors (Palestinians) object when victims (Israelis) retaliate to defend and protect themselves?

    • Posted By: sukeshi007 @ 01/29/2008 1:58:31 PM

      well said !!!

  • Posted By: Hugo90 @ 01/29/2008 3:20:35 PM

    American foreign policy supporting Israel has been a big lie from the beginning. Our constitution forbids government from engaging in religious life, but support for Israel and whatever it chooses to do with America's financial support, is a plan to keep all christian historical sites in the control of western governments. Doing what is right for the people is not a consideration at all.

  • Posted By: Sigurdur @ 01/29/2008 1:47:52 PM

    We here in Iceland are appalled to see how the jews treat the palestinians. We supported the state of Israel in 1948 but all support for the jews has evaporated here. We watch in horror as the neonazis slaughter women and children in the palestinian ghettos. Imagine people locked up in ghettos in their own land! All our symphaties are now with the palestinians as we used to symphatize with the jews in the Warshaw
    ghetto. No civilized nation can support this new jewish behavior.

  • Posted By: Kaelinda @ 01/27/2008 7:08:14 PM

    Funny, isn't it, how everyone in the world is against Israel just because she defends herself against Palestinian aggression. Israel is one tiny little country, she's not a big bad wolf. Palestine has all the world on its side, because a large part of the world is Muslim and the rest of the world are afraid of Muslims.

    • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 01/27/2008 11:10:50 PM

      Kaelinda, your are being very naive, the fact that Isreal can survive until today is because the US is supporting it. There rest of the world leaders are just puppets of the US. So who is in a stronger position the Palestinians or the Isrealites? At this stage however Isreal is more stronger than the US! Isreal has been able to make the US as its proxy all at the disadvantage of the American citizens!

  • Posted By: mamdu @ 01/27/2008 4:11:22 PM

    If Israel is under the impression that it should be the only country in the Middle East to posess Nuclear weapons,let this now come to an end.The equation in the region will see a tremendous changes.Let the Israelis get used to it...and fast!

  • Posted By: globalviking @ 01/27/2008 1:48:30 PM

    Comment - the decisive difference between Israeli nuclear capability and Iranian is that Israel has not vowed to blow neighboring countries off the map as Iran has concerning Israel. Will Iran if the acquire nukes be able to restraint themselves from using them or by threat forcing their will at their neighbors? Not only Israel, but the majority of Iran's Muslim neighbors show great concern at Iran's nuclear ambitions.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 01/27/2008 3:37:01 AM

    Israel will not be happy about anything even if it was God given. This is their nature. They will not be happy even if all the Palestininans are killed and the whole of Palestine given to them. They will not be happy even if the whole world is given to them! The only thing that will make them happy is when they are able to dictate God Himself, which is impossible.

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