A big THANK YOU … to the most unlikely source.
Flashback:
Just when things started to look really bad:
– Israel Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On Iran (Sky News, Nov. 02, 2011)
Only one inside job away from WW III.
Israel has successfully test-fired a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
– Israeli PM orders investigation into Iran leak (Guardian, Nov. 3, 2011):
Israel’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into alleged leaks of plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it has been reported.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida, the main suspects are the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.
Netanyahu is said to believe that the two, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin, wanted to torpedo plans being drawn up by him and Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to hit Iranian nuclear sites. Tzipi Livni, leader of the opposition Kadima party, is also said to have been persuaded to attack Netanyahu for “adventurism” and “gambling with Israel’s national interest”.
The paper suggested that the purpose of the leaks was to prevent an attack, which had moved from the stage of discussion to implementation. “Those who oppose the plan within the security establishment decided to leak it to the media and thwart the plan,” it said.
Both Dagan and Diskin oppose military action against Iran unless all other options – primarily international diplomatic pressure and perhaps sabotage — have been exhausted. In January the recently retired Dagan, a hawk when he was running the Mossad, called an attack on Iran “the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard“.
The Kuwait paper has a track record of running stories based on apparently high-level leaks from Israeli officials.
Even well-informed Israeli observers admit to being confused about what is going on behind the scenes.
“It seems that only Netanyahu and Barak know, and maybe even they haven’t decided,” commented Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, both respected Haaretz writers. “While many people say Netanyahu and Barak are conducting sophisticated psychological warfare and don’t intend to launch a military operation, top officials … are still afraid.”
The idea that something significant is going on in this highly sensitive area was rekindled last week in comments by columnist Nahum Barnea, who wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth that the officials running Israel’s military and intelligence services were opposed to a war with Iran.
“Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak are the Siamese twins of the Iranian issue,” he wrote. “A rare phenomenon is taking place here in terms of Israeli politics: a prime minister and defence minister who act as one body, with one goal, with mutual backing and repeated heaping of praise on each other… They’re characterised as urging action.
“Netanyahu portrayed the equation at the beginning of his term as: [Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is Hitler; if he is not stopped in time, there will be a Holocaust. There are some who describe Netanyahu’s fervour on this subject as an obsession: all his life he’s dreamed of being Churchill. Iran gives him the chance.”
The debate in Israel was further fanned on Wednesday when Israel successfully test-fired a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran.
More on Israel:
– Ex-Soldier Jailed For Leaking Israeli ASSASSINATION Policy (Independent)
– Freedom Watch: ‘Israelis, Saudis’ Behind Iran Terror Plot (FOX News – Video)
– President Obama Secretly Sold 55 Bunker-Busting Bombs To Israel (AFP)
– Biggest (Anti-Bankster) Rally In Israel’s History Presses Elite Puppet PM Netanyahu (Reuters)
– Israel Admits Effort To Build Up Military Threat Against Iran (Activist Post)
– Israel Breaks So-Called Ceasefire In Gaza After ONE Day (Activist Post)
– Israel Prepares For War With Egypt In Sinai Desert (Press TV)
– Michel Chossudovsky: Syria’s ‘Peaceful Protesters’ Are ‘Death Squads Directly Supported By Turkey And Israel’ Armed With Heavy Machine Guns (RT)
– 81 Members Of Congress To Spend A Week Of Their August Break In Israel (Politico)
– Fascism: Israeli Parliament Passed A Law Banning Boycotts Against The State And Its Settlements (Christian Science Monitor)
So this is what Bibi calls self-defense to ensure Israel’s security and survival???
Looks like a (slow) war of conquest to me. (Click on image to enlarge.)
– Israeli Undercover Agents Boast Of Killing Palestinians on TV (Gilad Atzmon)
– Israeli PM’s Son Yair Netanyahu Insults Muslims On Facebook: ‘Terror Has A Religion And It Is Islam’ (Independent)
– Former Head of Mossad Meir Dagan: Israel Government ‘Reckless And Irresponsible’ – ‘I Decided To Speak Because When I Was In Office, Diskin, Ashkenazi And I Could Block Any Dangerous Adventure. NOW I AM AFRAID THAT THERE IS NO ONE TO STOP BIBI AND BARAK’ (Guardian)
– The (Jewish American) Boy Who Tried To Stand Up To Israel (Independent)
– Former Israeli Special Forces Soldier Reveals Assassination Squads (Breaking The Silence):
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.
– IDF Soldiers Kill 20 Pro-Palestinian Protesters And Wound 325 At Border (Daily Mail)
– AIPAC 2011: Marching In step with AIPAC – Jewish life more valuable than Palestinians (YouTube)
– Watch How IDF Soldiers Treat Women!!! (Video) (YouTube)
– Rep. Ron Paul Seeks Vote To End ALL Foreign Aid To Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Pakistan
– Helen Thomas: Jews Control White House, Congress – ‘I’m Not Anti-Jewish; I’m Anti-Zionist.’
And Helen Thomas is spot on:
– Traitor Joe Biden on Shalom TV: ‘I am a ZIONIST’
– An Interview With Holocaust Survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer: ‘Zionism Has Nothing to do With Judaism’
– Israel Shahak: The History of the Jews (Must-see!)
– Gilad Atzmon: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
– Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts: ‘AIPAC Owns The US Puppet Government’
– A Hebrew Israeli radio station, Kol Yisrael, on October 3rd 2001 reported that during an argument in an Israeli cabinet meeting, Shimon Peres warned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that unless he would heed American requests for a cease fire with the Palestinians, he could cause America to turn against Israel. In a fit of anger, Sharon responded to Peres:
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.”
– U.S. Senator William Fulbright said on CBS’s Face the Nation, that, “Israel controls the U.S. Senate.”
– Israel Wants Additional $20 Billion In Military Aid From US Taxpayers (Daily Mail)
– The Zionist Story (Full Documentary) – From The Perspective of An Ex-Israeli Soldier (YouTube)
– Egyptian General: Enemy Agents In The White House And Israel Carried Out 9/11 (YouTube)
– Israel Deliberately Bombs Medical Supply Factory (Ken O’Keefe in Gaza, Feb. 8, 2011 ) (YouTube)
– Largest Secret Spy Hub Uncovered In Israel (RT)
– ‘I am Israel’ – ‘Soy Israel’ – ‘Ich bin Israel’ – ‘Io sono Israele’ – ‘? – ???????’ – ‘Jestem Izraelem’ – ‘Je suis Israël’ – ‘????? ?? ??????’ – ‘Ik ben Israël’ (YouTube)
– Israel Demolishes Homes And Classroom in West Bank Village (Guardian)
– Israel Launches Twin Air Strikes on Gaza (AFP)
– Israelis shoot dead sleeping elderly Palestinian (Daily Star)
– Palestinian Report: Man killed in Hebron was sleeping when shot (Ynetnews)
– Mossad Agent ‘Brought Down Egypt’s Internet’ (Telegraph)
– Gilad Atzmon: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness (Gilad Atzmon)
– Who Were The First Terrorists In The Middle East? (YouTube)
– Israel Shahak: The History of the Jews (Must-see!)
– Israel: Work Begins on Egypt Barrier (Reuters)
– Gaza War Lies Vs. Facts (YouTube)
– The Banality of Evil: IOF soldiers celebrating the destruction of houses (Gilad Atzmon)
– Israeli soldier sent to prison for stealing from Gaza aid flotilla (Telegraph)
– Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Non-Jews Are Donkeys, Created To Serve Jews (Jerusalem Post)
– Two Israelis in Custody for Trying to Bribe Georgian Deputy Finance Minister (Haaretz)
– Israel mocks Palestinians and US by going ahead with new settlements (Guardian)
– Israel minister Isaac Herzog: ‘There is a whiff of fascism on the margins of Israeli society’ (AFP)
– Israel: Influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Calls For Palestinians To ‘Perish From The World’ (Daily Mail)
– Israel’s President Shimon Peres Claims English Are ‘Anti-Semitic’ (Telegraph)
– David Cameron: Israeli Blockade Has Turned Gaza Strip Into A ‘Prison Camp’ (Guardian)
– Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’ (Video)
– Israel Paves Way For Remote Control Killing (The National)
– Exposed: The Truth About Israel’s Land Grab In The West Bank (The Independent)
– Israel rejects international probe, says it would be biased against the Jewish state; Egypt calls Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open (AP)
– Iran Offers Military Protection To Gaza Aid Ships (RT)
– Former US Marine Disarms Israeli Commandos, Describes Mass Murder By Israeli Soldiers (YouTube)
– Autopsy Results Reveal That Gaza Flotilla Activists Were Shot In Head At Close Range (Guardian)
– Robert Fisk: The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda (Independent)
– Gilad Atzmon on Israeli collective madness: ‘The world sees now what Israel is all about’
– American teenager among those killed in Israeli raid of aid flotilla; Israeli soldiers accused of refusing to treat the injured, letting them die (Washington Post/Al Jazeera)
– President Abdullah Gul: Turkey will ‘never forgive’ Israel (Al Jazeera)
– Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky: Gaza flotilla raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’ (The Raw Story)
– Israeli soldiers murder at least 10 civilians on boat carrying aid to Gaza (Los Angeles Times)
– Israel stations nuclear missile submarines off Iran (Times)
– Gaza Aid Flotilla Delayed After Mystery Faults Hit Two Boats (Independent)
– Israeli Commandos Ordered To Stop Gaza Aid Ships (Times)
– Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons (Guardian)
– Report: Israel threatens to ‘return Syria back to the Stone Age’ (Ynet)
– Discharged IDF Soldiers Sue For Millions Over Anthrax Vaccine Experiment (YNet News)
– The US Military now KNOWS Mossad carried out 9/11 Attacks:
Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know that Israel “and those traitors within our nation” committed the 911 attack.
……”I have had long conversations over the last two weeks with contacts at the Army War College and the headquarters, Marine Corps and I’ve made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100% certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation.” Period.
– New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released (PRNewswire)
– Israel Threatening To Use Nuclear Weapons On Iran! (FOX NEWS)
– Ex-Mossad Agent Ostrovsky: The ‘Anti-Semite’ Label
– Former Israeli Minister: ‘It’s a Trick, We Always Use It.’ (calling people ‘anti-Semitic’)
– UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
– Palestinian children are stoned while walking to school (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
– Israel admits organ harvesting from Palestinians, and others, without consent (Guardian)
– UN assembly votes for probes of Gaza war crimes charges (Reuters)
– U.N. rights envoy: Israeli war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law in Gaza (Reuters)
– U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion (Australien Herald)
– Paul Craig Roberts: Israel and the Goldstone Report – War Criminals Are Becoming Arbiters of the Law (CounterPunch)
– Israel’s war crimes in Gaza (Independent)
– Amnesty International: Gaza white phosphorus shells were US made (Times)
– Did Israeli soldiers kill unarmed civilians? (Toronto Star):
‘The most moral army in the world’ killed civilians without cause
– Israeli soldiers report abuses in Gaza (Los Angeles Times)
– Tony Benn to BBC: If you won’t broadcast the Gaza appeal then I will myself (BBC)
– Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza (Guardian)
– Outcry over Israel’s reported use of phosphorus in Gaza (IHT)
– Israel accused of executing parents in front of children in Gaza (Telegraph)
– Gaza: ‘I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls’ (Independent)
– Israel ‘admits’ using white phosphorus munitions (Times)
– Gaza building apparently hit by phosphorus: UN (Vancouver Sun)
– Israeli use of white phosphorus ‘undeniable’: Amnesty International (The Age)
– Israel used phosphorus in heavily populated areas, doctors charge (Kansas City Star)
– Israeli army investigates use of white phosphorous in Gaza (Guardian)
– Israel shelled UK war graves in Gaza (Telegraph)
– Israel ‘will resume bombing’ of Gaza if Hamas reopens tunnels (Telegraph)
– Gideon Levy / Gaza war ended in utter failure for Israel (Ha’aretz)
May have? That’s really news!