Infowars.com/ Ben Schreiner
Following the highly scrutinized meeting between President
Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month in
Washington, consensus held that Obama had managed to secure assurances
from the war-hungry Netanyahu that Israel would delay a military strike
against Iran till 2013. That is, till after the November U.S.
presidential election.
According to the Israeli daily Maariv,
this commitment of Israeli “restraint” had been bought with the sale of
U.S. “advanced bunker-busting bombs and long-range refueling planes” to
the Israeli Defense Forces, as al-Akhbar (3/8) reported. Needless to say, such advanced weaponry would be required in any Israeli attack on Iran.
“You shall still have your war,” Obama thus seemingly sought to convey to Netanyahu, “but only in due time.”
Since the Obama-Netanyahu summit, however, indications of such
Israeli restraint have dissipated. The Israeli dogs of war are not so
easily tamed. In fact, in his latest column for Bloomberg (3/19), the Atlantic’s
Jeffrey Goldberg reports that talk of striking Iran is once more
convulsing through the Israeli political establishment. And according
to Goldberg, all such discussions have assumed a rather optimistic
bent.
“One conclusion key officials have reached,” Goldberg writes,
“is that a strike on six or eight Iranian facilities will not lead, as
is generally assumed, to all-out war.”
We learn further that Israeli officials interpret Obama’s
claims of “having Israel’s back” as meaning that even in the event of an
Israeli strike against Iran in the face of U.S. protest, “Obama would
move immediately to help buttress Israel’s defenses against an Iranian
counterstrike.”
All this leaves Goldberg to assess that Israel shall ultimately
strike Iran. As he writes, “I’m highly confident that Netanyahu isn’t
bluffing—that he is in fact counting down to the day when he will
authorize a strike against a half-dozen or more Iranian nuclear sites.” More >>
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