perhaps this thread will be moved to chit chat
but for now ... here is the latest news on
israel govt resp. to the IRAN news
lets remember ... that the govt of Israel
is sort of in transition ... with the former
long time leader there in a hospital
and incapacitated
www.debka.com
Israelâs non-policy on Iran
April 11, 2006, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfileâs Analysts note: If Washingtonâs initial reaction to the Iranian disclosure that it had produced low grade enriched uranium was pallid, the Israeli response was non-existent. Not only did the Iranians make no secret of a âhistoric achievementâ - in defiance of the United Nations and the West - but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad positively threw it in their faces. A short while earlier, Ehud Olmert, acting prime minister, asked by Time magazine whether Israel would attack Iranâs nuclear facilities, said he did not think Israel should be at the forefront of this war. âI donât know why people think this is first and foremost a war for Israel. Itâs a problem for every civilized country. It is therefore incumbent on America and the Europeans to form a strategy and remove this danger.â The only problem is that Iranâs president has never threatened to wipe America or Europe off the map â only Israel. But Israelâs new leaders, Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni have developed a new catchall cure-all for all Israelâs predicaments from the Iranian nuclear threat to a Palestinian government ruled by a fundamentalist terrorist organization: Israel will follow the lead of âthe international community.â In other words, the incoming Israeli government is shrugging off issues affecting its national security, such as the daily Palestinian missile blitz from Gaza, the penetration of Iranian terror cells, Hizballah and al Qaeda to Palestinian areas â and now the stride made by the Islamic republic on the road to a nuclear bomb. For the first time in its history, Israel is placing its vital interests in the hands of outsiders. Tuesday, April 11, the day the Iranian president delivered his nuclear bombshell, seven Hamas lawmakers traveled to Tehran to attend a conference on the future of Jerusalem â an occasion that is emblematic of a deadly chain that no one in Israeli government appears willing to perceive.