PM charges Mossad with thwarting Iran's nuclear plans

[bemildred]

Mostly of interest by way of contrast with the "we're
going to bomb your ass" rhetoric coming from other quarters.
Sharon looks like he's lost a little weight.
There is a somewhat interesting conversation with El-Baradei.


Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held a special meeting
on the Iranian nuclear threat on Sunday, deciding
that he would personally oversee Israel's efforts
to scuttle Iran's plans to produce nuclear
weapons.

Sharon also decided that the
Foreign Ministry will
concentrate diplomatic
efforts to convince world
leaders to take steps against
the Iranian threat.

The Mossad will be responsible
for all other issues
connected to scuttling the
plans.

The discussion on Iran had been postponed a
number of times. Sunday's meeting was attended
by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, Defense
Minister Shaul Mofaz and senior officials from
the Israel Defense Forces, the Mossad and the
National Security Council.

Haaretz

[Classical_Liberal]

1. That's nice

as of now the evidence for WMD looks about like the evidence we had for Iraq!

Good Luck!

[vierundzwanzig]

2. and that's

why we will once again send our troops to make the Middle East a little safer for Israel!

[Muddleoftheroad]

3. So, you think Israel controls the U.S. military?

What else does that tiny nation control? The media? World banking?

[Violet_Crumble]

4. Why don't you just come straight out and ask it?

What yr asking that poster is whether they're anti-semitic. So why not just say it?

As they never claimed or implied that Israel controls the US military, I don't really know why you came up with the question anyway. US foreign policy in regards to Israel is a complicated type of thing, and it appears more of a mutual back-scratching session where both benefit from the others policies than of one controlling the other...


Violet...

[Muddleoftheroad]

5. Nope

But if Jews control the U.S. military in this poster's view, I certainly want to know what else. I mean, hey, maybe I should convert... After all, why would the U.S. invade one nation, simply to make Israel safe if it weren't so?

[The Magistrate]

6. It Seemed A Legitimate Question To Me, Mr. Muddle

The dark hint that all U.S. policy is executed solely for the benefit of Israel is, at bottom, an appeal to prejudice, rather than a statement of fact. There is not going to be a U.S. invasion of Iran in any case.

[Violet_Crumble]

8. Uh-huh...

Of course, seeing as how that 'dark' view of the poster didn't even imply that all US policy is executed solely for the benefit of Israel, and neo-cons have said very similar things as the poster, I think there's a bit of 'Have you stopped beating yr wife yet?' going on....

Whether or not there's going to be a US invasion of Iran is just yr opinion, and no more or less informed than anyone elses here, and above all, doesn't make someone who disagrees with you an anti-semite...

Violet...

[Violet_Crumble]

7. Why not?

You weren't asking this poster if they were anti-semitic? You don't think anyone who thinks the Jews control the US military, the world media, and world banking is anti-semitic? That's really bizarre. What do you think they are? Zionists?

As it wasn't the posters view that Jews control the US military, why are you now claiming it is their view?


Violet...

[Muddleoftheroad]

9. Methinks thou protest too much

The original comment was about the U.S. make the "Middle East a little safer for Israel." Why would the U.S. do that? Why not make the U.S. a little safer for the U.S.?

I am trying to get the individual in question to give us more information. Thus far, that has not occurred.

[Violet_Crumble]

11. Huh?

Apart from me having a problem with words being put in someone else's mouth and accompanied with questions implying that they may be anti-semitic, I'm not sure what on earth you think I'm protesting about, or more importantly, why, and I'm sure you won't clarify what you said, anyway...

As I said, the neo-cons are quite open in their aims of wanting the US to make the Middle East a safer place for Israel. So, you'd now have us all believe that the neo-cons are anti-semitic as well? I think even the most basic understanding of both US and Israeli foreign policy would answer yr questions in this thread for you. Simply making a knee-jerk assumption that anyone who thinks that the US wants to make the Middle East a little safer for Israel is probably anti-semitic is just showing an ignorance of foreign policy and how it works...

I could hazard a few guesses why the individual in question hasn't replied or is ignoring you. If that sort of nasty insinuation was made against me, I'd consider ignoring the askee, as loaded questions like that are a pain in the arse to waste time on...

[BlackFrancis]

10. What would the middle east be..

Without one expantionistic, imported country with the unilateral ability to kill every single other resident of the area without fear of reprisal. Of course this is a state of events which is not only possible to maintain until the heat death of the universe, but desirable.