Echoing Tony Blair’s notorious September 2002 speech on “Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction which could be activated within 45 minutes”, the new Israeli ambassador to US asserted on July 4th that an Iranian nuclear bomb “could literally wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds”.

The list of links at the end of the compilation below show how a relentless US and Israeli war propaganda has been building up since Obama’s “historic” speech in Prague in April.



[propaganda alert]

1) Israeli ambassador to US: Iranian nuke could wipe off Israel in seconds (4 July 2009)

2) Israeli Army to train overseas for Iran strike operation (5 July 2009)

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 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097673.html


excerpt from: ‘Iran nuke could wipe Israel off map in seconds’

Haaretz, 4 July 2009


Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, on Friday warned that an Iranian atomic bomb could “wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds,” and that the Iranians could “accomplish in a matter of seconds what they denied Hitler did, and kill 6 million Jews, literally.”

Oren made his comments in a conversation with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

The newly appointed ambassador warned, “There are clocks ticking all around,” with regard to the Iranian nuclear issue. “One of those clocks is the uranium enrichment clock, which will show that by a certain date the Iranians will have sufficient, highly enriched uranium materials to create a bomb that could literally wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds.”

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video link:

In Conversation with Michael Oren (part 2)

Aspen Ideas Festival website, 3 July 2009

 http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=515&action=full_info&qclip=1

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 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443724418&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


excerpts from: IAF to train overseas for Iran strike op

by Yaakov Katz and AP, Jerusalem Post, 5 July 2009


[…] The Jerusalem Post learned that the IAF [Israeli Air Force] plans to participate in aerial exercises in the US and Europe in the coming months with the aim of training its pilots for long-range flights. […]

IAF planes will take part this year in a joint aerial exercise with a NATO-member state that cannot be identified.

In addition, later this month, the air force will send F-16C fighter jets to participate in the Red Flag exercise at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. At the same time, several of the IAF’s C-130 Hercules transport aircraft will participate in the Rodeo 2009 competition at the McChord Air Force Base in Washington state.

Defense officials said the overseas exercises would be used to drill long-range manoeuvres. […] Israel has a number of defense pacts with countries under which the air force is allowed to fly in foreign airspace. […]

Last summer, more than 100 IAF jets flew over Greece in what was viewed as a test-run for a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. […]

In May [this year], the French newsweekly L’Express reported that the IAF had staged military exercises over Gibraltar […] [in which] 83 jets drilled live bombing runs under a simulated surface-to-air threat environment.

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related links:


Biden: US won’t stop Israel attack on Iran (5 July 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/biden-us-wont-stop-israel-attack-on-iran/


Obama: The clock is ticking (26 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/obama-the-clock-is-ticking/


Brookings Institution: Options for a new American strategy toward Iran (23 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/obama-the-clock-is-ticking/


Netanyahu: 75% of the Iranians want regime change (23 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/clinton-we-hope-the-outcome-reflects-the-genuine-will-and-desire-of-the-iranian-people/


Clinton threatens to attack Iran ‘the way that we did’ Iraq (7 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/netanyahu-75-of-the-iranians-want-regime-change/


Obama & Merkel visit Buchenwald concentration camp: We will do everything we can so that something like this never happens again (5 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/obama-merkel-visit-buchenwald-concentration-camp-elie-wiesel-after-touring-concentration-camp/


Israel holds drill simulating all-out war (21 May 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/israel-holds-drill-simulating-all-out-war/


Obama: I understand why Israel considers Iran an existential threat (17 May 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/obama-i-understand-why-israel-considers-iran-an-existential-threat/


Netanyahu: We will not allow Holocaust deniers to carry out another Jewish Holocaust (20 April 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/israeli-prime-minister-we-will-not-allow-holocaust-deniers-to-carry-out-another-jewish-holocaust/


Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to its neighbor (5 April 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/obama-irans-nuclear-and-ballistic-missile-activity-poses-a-real-threat-to-its-neighbors/


CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (16 March 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/csis-report-turkey-would-be-the-optimum-route-for-a- possible-israeli-attack-on-iran/

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