What Will Israel Do?

Michael Hirsh is wrong in saying that Bush held the view that 'nothing has changed.' 9/11 changed the whole outlook of Bush. Like Roosevelt who responded to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Bush also responded quickly by bringing Kabul and Baghdad under American control. Only a fool of a president would keep quiet for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Future historians will laud Bush's bold ation. By this act, the entire political map was changed by Bush. Obama may speak about 'change. but there is no discernible change till now. His 'change' is losses for America and gains for rogue countries. Iran and North Kiorea are examples. Obama is more a demagogue than a practical politician like Bush or Reagan.

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Iran could have developed the Bomb as India and Pakistan did. But Iran iwants a nuclears aggression by 1. eliminating Israel and 2 to dominate the Middle East, even by conquering Saudi Arabia to bring Mecca under Tehran. So this rogue Iran should be destroued, as the Romans were bent upon destroying Carthage.

Jimmy Carter betrayed Israel. He had to leave the White House in disgrace after Iran held Americans captives for 444 days. Clinton sponsored the idea of a Palestine State. He was immersed in the Lewinsky scandal and spoiled the chances of Gore. Whoever rises against Israel will ne smashed. That is what history tels us right from the days of Egyptian Pharaoh. Is Obama the new Pharaoh?

I just read an article about Iran suffering from a sudden economic downturn due to the drop in oil prices--a drop that, hopefully will continue under the new administration. When the Bushies, in search of great wealth and world religous domination staged the huge oil price increase, they also provided Iran with the enourmous wealth needed for it to pursue the nuclear path, without which there would be still only empty rhetoric--how ironic. Now that Iran is also entering a deep economic crisis, are the Iranians still going to be financially capable to pursue their nuclear mission at the present breakneck pace in fear of being attacked? To me, that is the question.

bomb bomb bomb iran !!! drop it like its hot and hit the right spot no nukes for iran bomb iran hell yeah bomb iran !!! we mean nothing to iran neither does israel !!

The US state of Israel has no right to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East. They seem hell bent on attacking Iran. The US should disown this rogue nation before something bad happens. They regularly attack and kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza and have no respect for anything or anybody that isn't Jewish. Time to wake up and smell the coffee I think.

Mike Hirsh wrote, "The Israelis also know that the Arab states are terrified of an Iranian nuclear power, possibly to the point of looking the other way at another such strike."

How can Mike, or anyone else, reach that conclusion? Where's the hard evidence supporting that dangerous assumption? Justification for an Israeli strike on Iran is a shaky argument based on faulty or dubious premises, wishful thinking and pro-Israeli emotion.

We Americans have heard rosy, pre-war predictions before, from the same pro-war crowd. The Israel lobby helped push us into an ill-concieved war in Iraq.

Now, the Israel Lobby, through highly-silled shills like Mike Hirsh, is orchestrating American sympathy for any future, unilateral, Israeli aggression against Iran.

If Iran should respond to an Israeli airstrike or misslile attack, by launching a counter-attack on the Jewish State, this pro-Israel sympathy would grease the skids for US military action against Iran, as Israel would then be facing another "existential threat".

China and Russia would not sit back quietly while Uncle Sam delivers "shock and awe" destruction upon Iran. All hell could break loose quickly.

Under such dire circumstances, Israel might have the last word, by way of the Samson Option; the ensuing "Armageddon" would be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Mike, someone needs to inform you, what's good for Israel is not always good for the USA, or for mankind. .

Also.... air attacks on Iran are not enough; history has proved this time and time again. Only a massive land invasion could accomplish the mission. ................... actually at this point in history we don't want Iran to go nuclear and be a dominant player because we see them as the enemy... but in fact history has shown us that we often make the wrong assessments. In the 70's we were supporting the Taliban against the Communists in Afghanistan when it turns out that the people that were closest to us (the West) were not the Taliban but the Communists. What a better place Afghanistan would be today if we had supported the Communists. And how much weaker the global Jihad movement would be!!! Similarly, in the long term the Iranians will prove to be better friends for the West than the Arabs. We should support friendship and mutual beneficial relationships between the West and Iran....

The NIE was a political document, drafted at the behest of the White House in order to let Bush back down from his hawkish rhetoric on Iran and his promise not to let them get the Bomb. Now he can leave office without launching a war and if the Iranians get nuclear weapons later it can be someone else's fault. Even his team of lunatics are rational enough to know that an attack on Iran by the USA would cause havoc in the Persian Gulf, the world and here at home., not to mention in Iraq. So they just don't have the stomach for it... thus they ordered a new NIE. I am surprised so few commentators point this out.

and Iran is for Whom? You are missing the point, Israel has the right indeed the duty to protect itself. Iran is curently ruled by the Nazis

Israel and the surrounding area belong to Israel, as God has spoken it. There is no palestine, period.

oh, and one little thing, israel is for israelis, period

alright, so before you listen to people like the one below me, let someone like me (israeli) to comment- so really, things are not like you read here on the internet, come for yourself and have a look how those terror groups pretend they are regular people. and ill tell you waht, i am not that yound and about to enter the israeli army, and articels and people 9like that one below me for example) makes me wanna go there even more, so chill before you say something about israel alright?

why does Isreal....think it can treat palistinians like the nazis treated them....
and think things are going to work out in their favor....(as long as the Us bails them out, militarily and financially)....they should have to sleep in the bed they have made....on their own