Is An Israel Attack On Iran Imminent?

I think dropping a nuke on Iran would be the best thing Israel could do. I mean look at us & Japan. Japan was our Iran in the 1940s. They hated us and we hated them and now look at us both. They are our best friends. We love the Japanese & they love us!
 
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I think dropping a nuke on Iran would be the best thing Israel could do. I mean look at us & Japan. Japan was our Iran in the 1940s. They hated us and we hated them and now look at us both. They are our best friends. We love the Japanese & they love us!
I guess we should just nuke every country that doesn't like us so they'll be our friends in a few years. We could start with the French. :D
 
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I guess we should just nuke every country that doesn't like us so they'll be our friends in a few years. We could start with the French. :D

Haha, that is true! I was in Paris once and every single Parisian I came in contact with gave me some kind of problem. Every cool person I met in Paris was from somewhere else, from the africans to the dutch, to the spanish cab drivers. All those people were cool, but those effing natural born Parisians. Not one was nice. The closest thing to nice that a Parisian did for me might not even be considered nice. I went to stay in a hostel and booked it on the internet. I show up there and they don't have me down for a bed there and they are fully booked up. So the "nice" thing they did for me was tell me I could stay in the closet....for half price. Of course that "nice" thing they did was completely undone when I went out and tried to get back in the hostel to find the door locked because I came back to the hostel 30 minutes after dark (which was around 11pm as it stays light in Paris till about 10:30pm) Apparently they wanted everyone in by 7 or 8pm I guess. :(
 
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What troubles me is that Obama quashed the deal to supply and operate Patriot installations across Israel that were supposed to augment the Arrow missile defense system developed domestically by Israel.

Obama reneged on the agreement and only a fraction of the number of Patriot systems have been delivered and they will not be manned by US personnel as previously agree.

This leaves Israel with some real consequences if they attack Iran in that they cannot adequately defend against incoming intermediate range missiles developed by Iran over the last 10 years or so. They are also facing thousands upon thousands of short-range unguided missiles from southern Lebanon (Hezbollah) and the Golan Heights (if Syria is still capable of engagement). Obama is simply refusing to honor previous agreements and avoiding any actions that would enable Israel to attack Iran.

I don't think Obama *wants* Iran to have nuclear weapons but he thinks he can use the circumstances to force Israel to make major concessions in Gaza and the West Bank even perhaps ceding East Jerusalem so that it becomes the "Palestinian" capitol instead of Ramallah. Obama thinks that these concessions would placate the Islamists worldwide and they would stop with the terrorism and start loving us. Its extremely naive and extremely dangerous for the entire world.

BS obama doesn't :"think" . He has no plan other than snub Israel at every opportunity and support his mudslime motherhood brethren as openly as US political opinion will let him.
 
I think the odds of nuclear strikes are far higher than people realize. The media are basically giving zero odds so granted, that's a pretty low bar.

Netanyahu has kind of painted hmself into a corner, never a good thing to do diplomatically. He has basically said a nuclear, or near nuclear, iran is an existential threat for Israel. No one really doubts the accuracy of that either. He has said that Obama refuses to draw a red line beyond which the Us will attack. The Washington media were full of planted editorials today disputing this, but even if Obama has said a nuclear iran is unacceptable, no one really trusts him to live up to this commitment. When has he stood up to radical islamists anywhere?

So Israel is left in the lurch, facing an existential threat without big brother covering their butts. If Israel doesn't thnk they can take out Iran's facilities with conventional weapons, then the only remaining answer is to go nuclear. Or, if they mount a conventional strike, then are hit by devastating counterattacks, not only from iran but Egypt, Lebanon, maybe even turkey, or if the initial strike fails, what do they do? My answer is take out Iran and maybe Egypt once and for all and deal with the consequences later.

The alternative explanation is that Netanyahu is bluffing, no existential threat exists and there is no imminent crisis. This is clearly the line the WH is peddling. It puts Netanyahu in a difficult spot, although a self-created one. Since he is nobody's fool and had to anticipate this outcome, it makes me very pessimistic.
 
The Iranian bunker system is close to the point where Israel is lacking the bombs needed to blow them up. After this point only the USA has the bombs.
No chance Israel will do a nuclear 1st attack.
I think Israel will go after the leadership of Iran instead of the bunkers. I see multiple attacks, commandos to take out the Mullahs. Iran has very thin leadership. Power is concentrated.

The people's will is toward the west and democracy.
 
Nobody ever mentions Israel's missle capability. Could they take out the Iranian nuclear threat with conventional warheads on missles? I've never heard anything about the numbers, range, size or capability of Israeli missles. At the very least that should be an aid to any attack on Iran.
 
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Nobody ever mentions Israel's missle capability. Could they take out the Iranian nuclear threat with conventional warheads on missles? I've never heard anything about the numbers, range, size or capability of Israeli missles. At the very least that should be an aid to any attack on Iran.

Netanyahu is a shrewd guy. He doesn't want a single Israeli missile or soldier to be involved in taking out Iran.He wants the US to do it.
 
Quote from Mercor:

The Iranian bunker system is close to the point where Israel is lacking the bombs needed to blow them up. After this point only the USA has the bombs.
No chance Israel will do a nuclear 1st attack.
I think Israel will go after the leadership of Iran instead of the bunkers. I see multiple attacks, commandos to take out the Mullahs. Iran has very thin leadership. Power is concentrated.

The people's will is toward the west and democracy.

Good analysis, brother Mercor.
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

...When has he stood up to radical islamists anywhere?...

Brother AAA, while much of your analysis is very well thought out, and interesting, this one is way, way, way out there in right field.

Best to ask Osama bin Laden about that statement.
Let us know if he gets back to you.
 
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