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US cautions Israel against solo military op in Iran
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 03.12.11, 05:26
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1. It would hurt the trade of oil????
(12.03.11)
2. What an arrogant hypocrit and liar !
who cares   (12.03.11)
When under thrat, the USA is turning the world upside down ! When someone else tries to do the same, the US wants to stop them ! Woe to you USA : For cursing Israel you willl lose everything ! ''He who curses Israel will be cursed!''
3. Methinks He Doth Protest Too Much
RickD ,   USA   (12.03.11)
What an actor! The bombing will commence in five minutes.
4. Nobody wants war except for Iran.
Pasquinel ,   Canada   (12.03.11)
5. as if like israel would dare take any military action lol
deutronomy 28 ,   world   (12.03.11)
6. Israel you are now expendable.
John Prophet   (12.03.11)
You've held back to date as the West wrings it hands in fear. All the while your enemies are arming to the teeth all around you screaming "death to Israel" You must throw of the yoke the West has shackled you with, because now having you gone is preferable to a "regional conflagration". It is now time to fight for your lives.
7. Is Panetta eying the State Department job?
Marco ,   Spain   (12.03.11)
8. Obama's real sympathies are with Iran.
Chaim ,   Israel   (12.03.11)
Iran's nukes must be destroyed and only Israel will do it. There is no chance whatsoever the Obama regime will do so. Obama's real sympathies are with Iran. Not with America and certainly not with Israel.
9. Bagdad Bob Panetta speaks again.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (12.03.11)
They just dressed Bagdad Bob up a little differently and gave him a job in the United States CIA. When he speaks....people laugh and wet themselves.
10. It proves that Iran's detterence is sound
Chris.B ,   Australia   (12.03.11)
and that Iran is only a threat to anybody stupid enough to attack them. Panetta is stating the obvious. The Americans have better things to do than worry about Israels obsession with regaining its lost hegemony.
11. It is breathtaking how the Romans, Orthodox . . .
Ken Quinn ,   Amsterdam   (12.03.11)
It is breathtaking how the Romans, Orthodox think that no one sees through their two-faced intrigues. These wicked people are arming both sides mightily but proportionally so that there is no doubt any longer that there will be a massive Middle East War. And, this dolt of Rome is attempting to lay on the State of Israel the responsibility for all of the world economic consequences if it dares defend its existence. And why is the Eastern Orthodox Institution balancing the opposing forces in this insane game instead of slapping down the evil of islam decades ago? There is no sanity any more, just wickedness. Their insane talk only inflames the situation day by day.
12. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
Arn ,   Yehud, Israel   (12.03.11)
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hasn't a clue. The man went on to wag a finger at Israel for permitting relations with Turkey, Egypt, the Palestinians and Jordan to so deteriorate. Y'know... I think this dim-witted gentleman seriously believe that the Jews have brought all their problems on themselves.
13. Ah for **** sake how people with this logic get to be Defens
Ali   (12.03.11)
Secretary.... if Israel Attacks Iran right after the Fall of the Syrian Government, those Iranians that Seek Freedom, will rise again like they rise in 2009, and Overthrow Khamenei.
14. Obama and Panetta want Iran to have the bomb!
John ,   Maryland   (12.03.11)
15. Why cant we be friends
Sarah B , ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.03.11)
Lets disarm our nukes, that will show Iran we are serious about peace. Lets site down with the Palestinians, for real this time, and show the world we can be civilised. Wouldnt that be a nice Hanukah present. :-D. Lets do it.
16. Who gave him license to be "Minister of Deafens"?
Elishay   (12.03.11)
What does he think? that Israel doesn't like to keep the peace agreement with Egypt and Jordan, or keeping the relationship with Turkey? Could she do anything about it? Mubarak for example, because of the Islamic brothers and even them, kept cold peace with Israel. Is this agreement wheel being kept by Islamic government with total majority in the parliament? Obama already did all this mistakes by connecting actions against nuclear weapon in Iran with progress between Israel and Palestinians. What did he achieve? Palestinians refuse to negotiate and Iran continues with her plans. Even Obama making voices of change, he didn’t learn anything. Same stupid Idiot.
17. #15 Leave your drugs alone or seek treatment
Robert ,   Australia   (12.03.11)
A better present for you would be if Britain was nuked, evidently.
18. Obama will "fiddle" while Israel burns!
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (12.03.11)
The only reason Barak Hussein Obama is making his "statements" about Israel's security is to get the Jewish vote! Fathered by a Muslim. Brought up as a Muslim and then grew up under the guidance of the Antisemitic Revered Wright who first said the "Jews" were preventing Obama from talking to him and then changed "Jews" to Zionists, are very good reasons why Obama will do nothing to stop Iran's aim of destroying Israel and then turn his Neo-Nazi Jihad against Europe and the USA.
19. The post at No. 15 is not mine
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.03.11)
Does anyone seriously believe that the incoherent, rambling, unfocused and gramatically incorrect "contribution" at No. 15 was crafted by me?
20. To: No. 10
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.03.11)
Much of Iran's "deterrence" (note proper spelling) has mysteriously blown up. But you are wrong about Israel's (note proper punctuation) so-called "obsession." Since when is fending off 32 years of nearly daily existential threats an "obsession?" Are you that ignorant of the constant threats emanating from Teheran to "destroy the 'Zionist entity'" and to "wipe the 'Zionist entity" from the map? Iran WILL be stopped. With or without the United States. In case you haven't noticed, Iran constitutes the greatest threat to civilization that has ever reared its ugly head. I find it rather amazing that Panetta has not noticed all the American flags burning in Iran, and all the rabid demonstrators in Iran who scream "Death to America!" I guess he completely forgot that the U.S. Embassy in Teheran was invaded in 1979, and hostages taken. Then again, judging from the ineptitude on display in Afghanistan, Iraq, Waziristan and Libya, Mr. Panetta is hardly up to the task. Dare one suspect that this is precisely why Obama appointed him?
21. Panetta vs Israel
Brod ,   USA   (12.03.11)
Panetta is a Papist. The history of Papism is all to well known during the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Behind him are Papist foot soldiers called Jesuits masterminding and manipulating Papist domination of America's key institutions and government bodies. America, a Judeo-Christian/Protestant country, is slowly being dominated by Papism by eroding Protestantism through Trojan Horse tactics and the unrelenting latent influence of Papist foot soldiers. Israel should say NO to Panetta. He does not represent Judeo-Christian America that strongly supports Israel. It is none of the business of other countries including Panetta to sabotage Israel's right to self-defense in the face of existential threat. Israel is a sovereign country and has all the rights to survive and exist in this world without being a sitting duck to the Ayatollahs' nuke just because of Panetta. In fact, Israel can tell Panetta to go to Hell. Why should Israel be a sitting duck to a second Holocaust?
22. to all
iran N inevitable   (12.03.11)
Iran will have nuclear bomb, Israel can do nothing against this reality. trigger a regional war that could become uncontrollable, is suicidal, to risk its destruction by the war under the pretext vain and futile to prevent the nuclearization of a vast country of 80 million people is stupid. Arabs and Muslims can survive even to an massiv nuclear attack. think there term israel is doomed in his folly. 6 million Jews against 500,000 000 Muslims in the region, you can imagine who is most likely to survive a regional war
23. This is a game wherein the U.S.
Gideon Reader   (12.03.11)
...political administration has elected to leave their balls at home. Whoops! I made a funny. So how come I'm not laughing?
24. Paneta's comments to the Saban conference
DEB ,   Wash DC   (12.03.11)
indicate he is prepared to trade off Israel for better stability in the world economy. The West should have taken military action some time ago. Proper military action could disable Iran's nuclear program forever. The excessive hand-ringing is over unknown and unknowable consequences of military strikes. But one thing IS known: it is not getting better for Israel's survival as things are progressing now.
25. Failures of western politicians
Joe ,   Canada   (12.03.11)
The argument of the fragile economy as a reason for not taking action against Iran (even an oil embargo or a boycott of Iran central bank) is a smokescreen for a fear of the western leaders to loose their voters at next elections. The false sense of safety they instill in their countries that sanctions will spare them all the risks (which anyway only threaten directly Israel in their shortsighted view) is only leading to a much worse, more risky future for everyone. Once Iran is a nuclear power these leaders will say there nothing more to be done & that as long as they don't use their bombs we should live with the threat. Kicking the can down the road for short term tranquility is increasing the risk that a conventional war will be avoided only to be leading to a vastly more devastating nuclear war.
26. #19..Not for a nano-second, Sarah..and you know it!
Mark ,   Lodz,Poland   (12.03.11)
27. God chose irael
r f k ,   texas   (12.03.11)
we need to stand with israel or we all fail!
28. Nukes
Eliza ,   CA, USA   (12.03.11)
Our government can be such hypocrites; they want Iran to stop with the nukes when we nuked Iraq and Afghanistan not to long ago. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212827.html
29. Do you really believe?
Robert ,   New Jersey, USA   (12.03.11)
Those of you here who are so terminally naive to believe that Obama, his minions Panetta, Clinton and Holder are clueless about the consequences of strategies they espouse, how can you function in a world governed by causality? If you ran your lives by the same set of absurdly contradictory principles that govern your perception of politics, you would fail miserably. These committed Marxist operatives in the highest echelons of the US Executive branch know full well what they are doing. It is ALL a calculated plot to undermine Western civilization and install an elitist totalitarian rule by fiat. Those of you, if indeed so deluded are, as succinctly put by Stalin - "Useful Idiots." I rather think you know damned well what's going on and, being birds of a feather, play along, hoping the unwashed masses believe your tripe. Rest assured, we are onto your game!
30. IRAN'S DETERRENCE BLOWN UP?.....#20
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (12.03.11)
If,according to your whimsical thinking,everything in Iran is either malfunctioning or totally destryed,what are your cowards waiting for?You probably are getting carried away more faster than we,as readers,imagined,Sarah. So far as the ineptitude is concerned,it is amazing that you,as most closest ally,did not bother to help and now choose to portray their ineptitude?More world attention is focussed on ineptitude displayed in Lebanon,I believe.
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