Now that the WikiLeaks reveal widespread Arab support for the military option against Iran's nuclear facilities to be put on the table, the time has come to reassess United States policy toward the Ahmadinejad regime.
Even if Israel freezes settlement building, the Palestinians come to the negotiating table and an agreement is reached about borders, refugees and Jerusalem, there will still be no real peace in the Middle East -- if Iran continues on its determined path toward developing deliverable nuclear weapons. And despite noble efforts by the United States to bring Israel and the Palestinians to the peace process, the inability to achieve a real peace will be largely the fault of the deeply flawed American policy toward Iran.
The policy of the United States seems to be that a nuclear Iran is inevitable, that sanctions may delay but not prevent the Iranians from developing the bomb, and that a policy of containment is the best we can hope for. But containment is not a policy; it is an admission of failure. A nuclear Iran cannot be contained, because it operates largely through surrogates such as Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist groups. It can direct these surrogates to take actions that do not leave Iranian fingerprints. Currently these actions are limited to Hezbollah aiming rockets at Israel's heartland and Hamas firing improvised rockets at Israeli civilians. If these groups -- which oppose any peace with Israel -- could operate under the protection of an Iranian nuclear umbrella, they would constantly provoke retaliatory and preventive military actions. These actions might well force the Palestinian Authority to violate agreements they made with Israel. Moreover, an Israeli population constantly under the threat of a nuclear Holocaust from a nation whose leader has called for Israel to be wiped off the map may demand that preventive military action be taken. Any such action by Israel would provoke an immediate response from Hezbollah and Hamas, if not from the Palestinian Authority.
Nor would a nuclear Iran limits its mischief to Israel. Now that it has obtained medium range ballistic missiles from North Korea, it might feel adventurous enough to export nuclear terrorism to other parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. President Barack Obama understated the threat when he said that a nuclear Iran would be "a game changer." It would be unmitigated disaster, threatening world peace, putting an end to any hope of nuclear non-proliferation, and engendering the greatest arms race in modern history.
The fault for this disaster would be equally shared by the Bush and the Obama administrations. Under George Bush's watch, the United States issued its notorious National Security Estimate of November 2007, which essentially denied that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons. This report was known to be false at the time it was issued since American intelligence became aware of the nuclear weapons facility at Qum before the report was issued. The publication of this report sent a powerful message to Iran: The Americans have fallen for your bait and switch game in which you hide your capacity to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of purported civilian use. This has encouraged the Iranians to move full-throttle ahead on their program. At the same time the Bush Administration changed Israel's green light to yellow and then to red, as it related to United States approval of an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The end result was that Iran felt no real constraints on continuing to develop its nuclear weapons capacity in a pretextual civilian context.
The Obama administration appears to have taken any military option off the table, relying instead on its enhanced package of sanctions. Secretary of Defense Gates has been explicit about this and the Iranians have been listening. It makes absolutely no sense to take the military option off the table, even -- perhaps especially -- if one is reluctant to deploy it. As George Washington taught us in his first address to Congress: "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." Israel's Prime Minister echoed President Washington when he recently said, "The simple paradox is this: If the international community, led by the United States, hopes to stop Iran's nuclear program without resorting to military action, it will have to convince Iran that it is prepared to take such action." What is it that American policymakers don't seem to understand about this self-evident proposition?
The man most responsible for both the Bush and Obama administration's failure with regard to Iran is Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, whose tenure has straddled both the issuance of the false National Security Estimate and the decision to take the military option off the table. He is Iran's favorite American facilitator. Although he soon plans to leave office, there are no signs -- certainly none visible to Iran -- that his failed policies with regard to Iran's nuclear program will end with his too long tenure.
The Biblical prophet cautioned "peace, peace and there is no peace." This tragic prophecy will become a sad reality if Israel and the Palestinian Authority make great sacrifices in an effort to bring peace to their people, only to see that peace shattered by a short-sighted American policy that allows Iran to hold a nuclear sword of Damocles over the entire region.
Professor Alan Dershowitz's latest book is a novel, The Trials of Zion.
Not to mention, Israel is incapable of even beating Hezbollah in a fight, without a massive military strikes on Lebanese civilans.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/27/can-israel-defeat-hezbollah-in-the-coming-war/
Israel took and take no man's land but must liberate her own full fledged legal right to that land, Israel/Palestine per the 1922 Palestine Mandate doc., a valid document to date.
The Arab world received 99.9% of the land mass after WWI, but that is not enough for them they want that minuscule piece of dirt the Jews have, Greedy!! And for this little piece of land, Israel/Palestine, the Arabs scarifies even their own. Shame! Arab should be generous. Individually some of them are. If the Arab world cherish the Jews, they would benefit greatly and not be so backward despite all their resources.
There is a limit to ones generosity. Offering one food, offering them a glass of water or coffee or a cigarette, but not a country on top of the heads of other people. Sorry.
German Die Welt Iran plans to build a missile base in Venezuela
Iran wants on Venezuelan soil as a basis for medium-range missiles up and deepen the strategic cooperation with the regime of Hugo Chávez.
Nach Informationen dieser Zeitung hatte der Sicherheitsrat eine gemeinsame Militäreinrichtung auf venezolanischem Boden vorgeschlagen, um die Abschreckungsmacht des Iran gegen den Westen zu vergrößern. According to information of this newspaper, the Security Council had proposed a joint military facility on Venezuelan soil to increase the deterrent power of Iran against the West. Die Kooperation wäre eine Möglichkeit für den Iran, eine strategische Basis auf dem südamerikanischen Kontinent zu errichten – im Hinterhof der USA. The cooperation would be a way for Iran, a strategic base in the South American continent to build - in the backyard of the United States.
http://translate.google.co.il/translate?u=www.welt.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Farticle11219574%2FIran-plant-Bau-einer-Raketenstellung-in-Venezuela.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/27/AR2010112701069.html
Five More Nuclear Facilities Discovered in Iran
source: http://nocompromisemedia.com/2009/09/29/five-more-nuclear-facilities-discovered-in-iran/
Apocalypse Now
Good Night, Israel
Ayatollah Vows: “We Will Make Our Enemies Blind”
by M.T., a No Compromise Media Contributor -- http://current.com/12o5e4c
I don't think Iranian nukes (which do not exist nor will exist for a long time, and will not be a surprise) are a danger to Israel OR the USA.
"Iran plans to build a missile base in Venezuela"
Monroe Doctrine - won't happen.
Better luck next time.
"THE PROOF:
The full quote translated directly to English:
"The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time".
Word by word translation:
Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from). "
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/10828
Yes Iran is evil and Israel is good. It doesnt matter if Israel never declares its nuclear amunitions; it doesnt matter it doesnt sign the NPT; it doesnt matter no IAEA officials are allowed into see Dimona' it's doesnt matter Israel dumps its nuclear waste in Palestinians villages.
The bottom line, Israel doesnt want to loose power and control over the region. If Iran has nukes it levels the playing field. The US/UK/Israel wont attack Iran with nukes. North Korea is a perfect example. Either the Middle East is a nuke free zone or every country gets one. Israel is afraid peace might break out and actually sit down and solve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It's amazing the Western powers have been complict in Israeli war crimes for all these years. Moreover it is amazing that the Western populations have put up with Israeli war crimes after all these years.
http://www.indictsharon.net/massacres.shtml
the attack on Lebanon was marked by numerous attacks on civilians and civilian areas and indiscriminate use of heavy fire against civilian targets. Israel's actions were condemned by
Human rights watch
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/1398
Amnesty international also condemned Israel for war crimes in Lebanon:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/amnesty-israel-committed-war-crimes-in-lebanon-campaign-1.195683
Israeli attacks on Gaza have been declared as war crimes by Richard Falk, the UN special observer in Gaza.
http://www.thenation.com/article/israels-war-crimes.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/11/20101129223858642223.html
Maybe they were leaked on purpose by US intelligence agencies.
All nuclear weapons do is keep you from getting nuked. Iran's government knows that a nuclear strike on Israel will bring a response that would truly obliterate Iran; it's the old Mutual-Assured-Destruction checkmate that we remember from the Cold War.
And this divide-and-conquer thing of playing Arab/Sunni off against Persian/Shiite may seem clever to the corrupt elites (and violent wannabe-elites) on all sides in this, but the rest of us have bigger problems and better things to do.
Israel's defenders are denying Iran access to nuclear technology, but the Israelis have a minimum of 100 warheads in stockpile. Supporters of Israel need to be reminded of this whenever they complain about the possibility of a Muslim A-Bomb.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/magazine/29islam.html
C'mon! There won't be true equality and peace until each of us has our own personal nuclear device...for peace.