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Israel attack on Iran 'unavoidable'-Olmert deputy

Oppose Neo-Fascism | 06.06.2008 18:44 | Anti-militarism | World

One way to avoid it would be to arrest these War Criminals before they have a chance to start another illegal war.

Israel attack on Iran 'unavoidable'-Olmert deputy
Fri Jun 6, 2008

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM, June 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday.

(Meaning that, even though there is no legal justification for this Act of Aggression, these Extremists will pursue war anyway, just as their opposition has maintained all along. This war, which is about Regime Change and resource theft, was planned along with the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, and has nothing to do with this program or the current president.)

"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

(There is no such program.)

"Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable," said the former army chief who has also been defence minister.

(This is not what the war is about. It was the excuse, not the reason, only that the LIES disseminated by these Extremists fell apart, since the evidence refutes them, and they've lost all credibility.)

It was the most explicit threat yet against Iran from a member of Olmert's government, which, like the Bush administration, has preferred to hint at force as a last resort should U.N. Security Council sanctions be deemed a dead end.

(Iran, using the 'logic' of 'pre-emptive war', Iran would be well within its rights in attacking the US or Israel. Only that Iran doesn't want war, Israel does, and they expect Americans to die fighting it for them.)

Iran, which denies seeking nuclear weapons, has defied Western pressure to abandon its uranium enrichment projects.

(Because the NNPT gives them the right to use this technology to generate electricity.)

The leadership in Tehran has also threatened to retaliate against Israel -- believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal -- and U.S. targets in the Gulf for any attack on Iranian turf.

Mofaz also said in the interview that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, "would disappear before Israel does."

(Only that he never actually said this. The media which was complicit in LYING the public into an illegal war in Iraq is still at it ...)

Mofaz's remarks came as he and several other senior members of Olmert's Kadima Party prepare for a possible run for top office should a corruption scandal force the Israeli prime minister to step down.

Iranian-born Mofaz has been a main party rival of the Israeli prime minister, particularly following the 2006 elections when Olmert was forced to hand the defence portfolio to Labour, his main coalition partner, at Mofaz's expense.

Mofaz, who is also designated as a deputy prime minister, has remained privy to Israel's defence planning. He is a member of Olmert's security cabinet and leads regular strategic coordination talks with the U.S. State Department.

Israel sent warplanes to destroy Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981.

A similar Israeli sortie over Syria last September razed what the U.S. administration said was a nascent nuclear reactor built with North Korean help. Syria denied having any such facility.

(And the evidence supports this.)

Independent analysts have questioned, however, whether Israel's armed forces can take on Iran alone, as its nuclear sites are numerous, distant and well-fortified. (Editing by Ori Lewis and Charles Dick)

(That's alright, since the US has already agreed to fight this war for Israel, even if Israel starts the war.)

 http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL06251958

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 http://www.winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8196S

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 http://www.winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8195S

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 http://www.winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8173S

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 http://www.winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8130S

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 http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2224052,00.html

US intelligence report heightens danger of Israeli strike on Iran
 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/isra-d06.shtml

'Laptop of Death': Revising the NIE on Iran
The entire claim that Iran was building nuclear weapons rests on a laptop provided by a single, dubious source.

 http://www.antiwar.com/ips/akhavi.php?articleid=12028 www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=12025

Israeli Extremists Prep for Nuclear Strike on Iran  http://www.israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7903/index.php

Hersh: Israel Pressed me to Write Syrian Site was Nuclear  http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Sy_Hersh_Israeli_raid_on_Syria_0208.html

Sy Hersh confirms: Syrian Facility Bombed by Israel Not Nuclear
 http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?10935S

A Strike in the Dark - What did Israel bomb in Syria?
by Seymour M. Hersh  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/11/080211fa_fact_hersh/?printable=tr

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 http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=108719&d=8&m=4&y=2008

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 http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?11022S

The largest threat to the region doesn't come from Iran: it comes from Israel's success in having had the US "neutralize" countries which it believes to be an existential threat to it's existence. However, there's just one little problem with this approach concerning Iran. Russia's diplomats have stated unequivocally that any attack against Iran will be perceived as an attack on Russia.

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Israel's Extremists STILL Beating Iran War Drums
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 http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?14997S

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ElBaradei: Iran Not After Bomb
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399278.html

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 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399342.html

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 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399467.html

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McLellan's Warning on Iran
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'Hate Iran Week' at AIPAC
 http://winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?15852S

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Stop the zionist rally and festival in Trafalgar Square!

06.06.2008 19:30

On Sunday the 29th of June thousands of zionist supportters are gathering in central London in Trafalgar Square from 2pm to hold a pro-Israel rally and festival where they will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the theft of Palestinian land. They must be stopped at all costs! Gather in Trafalgar Square 1:30pm Sunday 29th sharp!

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