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Israel concerned by potential US-Iran cooperation on Iraq
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Published: 16.06.14, 22:52
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1. Iran is the problem NOT ISIS...Obama will
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (06.16.14)
try once again, to help the mullahs to get the bomb...with the excuse of fighting some lunatic ragheads out in the desert... ISIS does NOT have a nuke program.
2. Iran is the premier terror state in the world
CJK   (06.17.14)
iran has been fueling the civil war in syria and causing the slaughter of the civilian population. iran has committed acts of terror since the so-called islamic revolution and has murdered untold numbers of both westerners and other muslims. iran is not worthy or trustworthy to be part of any western or american alliance.
3. Right or wrong?
James ,   USA   (06.17.14)
I can't say what is right or wrong in this situation. What I am absolutely certain of, Obama will invariably do the wrong thing. Taking bets... Any takers?
4. Sotero is a sunni..
Beary White ,   Norway   (06.16.14)
... and he will act like a true Islamic-cult-follower, and use the ISIS as an excuse to let Iran produce the bomb. Seems like his main goal is to put everything on fire before leaving office...both inside and outside the US borders.
5. Didn't I tell you ,...
split ,   US   (06.17.14)
Your warmongers and BS peddlers are good enough to tend a local flea market stand not to lecture other's on Iran ,...
6. I Hear There Is A Study Group On
(06.17.14)
Penslvania Ave; crash coarse on how to learn farsi!!! The head of the study group is b.H.o.!!!
7. Forever!!!
Robert ,   Lost in Farmington   (06.17.14)
Same thing that's been going on forever, more delays and more deceitful tactics by Iran and the Muslim President Obama. Eventually Israel will attack Iran, only to have the international community to condemn it, stopping Israel short of a complete victory. Only to appease the Muslim's, and to make Israel look like the goat if America wants to side with Israel's enemies let them, but when god's wrath comes upon America don't nobody cry.
8. #2 Wrong yet again
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.17.14)
Iran has been fighting against ISIS in Syria And as reports come out of atrocities against the Shia simply for being Shia we have a duty to intervene. Using any and all means. Otherwise the term 'Never Again' is meaningless
9. Steinitz, as finance minister, you LOST 40 billion shekels
Larry ,   Or Yehuda   (06.17.14)
and did not tell us nor do you know where it went. How can anyone believe a word you say? Are you an Obama protege?
10. If Israel is worried about Iran cooperating...
Robert ,   Australia   (06.17.14)
....with the US why doesn't Israel offer to fight ISIS?
11. I call for a citizen's revolution in Israel.
Israeli 2   (06.17.14)
No more Knesset....no more rotten government...no more warped democracy. Freedom. Israel must have a kingdom with limited powers.
12. Yuval Steinitz
Harold ,   USA   (06.17.14)
Is Yuval Steinitz ordering the United States what not to do. This guy made me laugh very loud. Can he tell me who is the chief.
13. Steiniz doesn't get it
(06.17.14)
The US has no choice but cooperate with Iran against ISIL. That means that Iran will get nukes. Thanks to the Turks in the northwest, Kurdistan in the northeast, and Iran in the east, ISIL can only go south to take Jordan and Saudi Arabia. That means that anyone who supports the Netanyahu / Livni fantasy of establishing a new Arab state in Judea and Samaria is knowingly making Israel impossible to defend, whether from ISIL from the east or Hezbollah from the north, both under an Iranian nuclear umbrella.
14. What is the alternative?
Ivor Evenbiggergun   (06.17.14)
At this moment in time ISIS is the third largest producer of oil in the world
15. #13 - By the time the rockets get done
spyguy ,   seattle usa   (06.17.14)
pulverizing Israel in the next big war, Any Israelis still alive in the west bank will be a mere speed bump to the invading Arabs. If you want a future for Israel, then you should be doing everything you can to make Jordan stay moderate and rejecting the Islamic fundamentalists. This means making sure the Palestinians have decent lives.
16. 8
CJK   (06.17.14)
you really are a fool. you have already lost lybia, and you have lost egypt and syria is a failed state. you have lost iraq already, now you want to lose iraq again. any intervention in iraq must be based on us national security interests and those of its allies--although today it is difficult to determine who, if any, are america;s allies among the muslim states.
17. #15 well said
(06.17.14)
Except you don't understand much about politics, terrain or military matters. Politics: Israel can do nothing for Abdullah. He is a corrupt Anglo-puppet and has watched as his Bedouin power base has been radicalized by Saudi Wahabism. When ISIL goes for Jordan, Abdullah is dead or on a plane to London. Terrain and military: artillery rockets, nukes and gas weapons are next to useless in the hilly terrain of Judea and Samaria. The hills bordering the Jordan River Rift are an impenetrable barrier that a few Jewish soldiers could easily defend against massive Jihadi forces. Israel could survive anything (except a full-scaled American attack) by moving most of the population to Judea and Samaria. However, if enemy forces control the hill line facing West, Israel is indefensible, and her population on the coastal plain cannot survive bombardment. In fact, the biggest, maybe only, challenge Israel faces in the next war will be the Fatah army that Netanyahu is building in Judea and Samaria.
18. Israel's not concerned
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.17.14)
We don't need the United States to handle Iran. But I think it's a safe bet that America's allies in the Gulf and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- not to mention Jordan -- are more than a bit unhappy. Iraq and Jordan share a border. The Jordanians don't want Iraq's civil war to spill over the border. Iran's involvement makes it likely. Unless Israel steps in. OBAMA = One Big-Assed Mistake, America.
19. #16 CJK
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.17.14)
Preventing ISIS becoming the third largest oil exporter in the world is in the interest of the United States
20. Thank God it's not humans
US citizen ,   Atlanta, US   (06.17.14)
These humans are going to get a lot of us killed. Worship not these humans, their gods(themselves), or their image. Thanks be to you God, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, you alone are able to deliver us from the firey furnace.
21. @ 16
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (06.17.14)
First and foremost your response is stupid. We didn't lose Egypt or Syria or Libya. They are not our countries to lose in the first place. They are independent states that can do what ever they want. America does not want or can control the world. We can steer some countries in our camp based on mutual interest, however Libya or Syria was never in our camp. Egypt only came into our camp after 1977 and that is because we promised it billions a year to have peace with Israel, so can we get a thank you, you ungrateful ingrate.
22. Congress should impeach Obama
Brod ,   USA   (06.17.14)
The rise of fanatical Islamist-Jihadist Terrorism-ISIS in the Middle East, Al Shabbab in Eastern Africa, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Ayatollahist nuke threat, is correlated with Obama meeting and wallowing with Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist leaders at the White House. (Google image this meeting). It is time Congress stops being stupid and acts immediately to impeach Obama. Obama endangers America, Israel and the Free World.
23. Spyguy #15
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (06.17.14)
pulverizing Israel in the next big war, Any Israelis still alive in the west bank will be a mere speed bump to the invading Arabs. The Arabs have fought 6 wars with Israel and lost. They keep thinking the same way you do. The next war will bring their losses to 7.
24. #22
Harold ,   USA   (06.17.14)
Ha, Ha, Ha. You made me laugh loud. You must be one of Eric Cantor's followers.
25. 19
CJK   (06.17.14)
isis will never become an oil exporter. most of iraq's oil fields are in the south and in kirkuk in the north. furthermore, should some oil fields come under isis control, no one will help them in any way to exploit or export those fields, not even russia or china. once again you show your ignrance.
26. #23
(06.17.14)
And an Israel where groups demand that their children not fight for their country
27. "islam"-Iraq, "islam"-Iran, The United States and Israel
Sjoerd van der Velde ,   Hoorn, Holland   (06.17.14)
Let the following of the "islam"-world caliphate "solve" it"s own problems/terror and crime, within their own "territory" (in Africa and Asia), unless the free and democratic world really is threatened in it"s existence and survival, by them. (tor example, also) THE JEWISH AND ISRAELI PEOPLE, FOREVER AND ALWAYS! MAY G.D BLESS ISRAEL (, too)!
28. #25 You really don't understand do you
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (06.17.14)
ISIS is funded by Saudi Arabia. China and since when has China worried about where it is buying it's oil?
29. #18 Keep taking the tablets dear
(06.17.14)
Jordan is already involved, ISIS like Israel claims that Jordan is part of their country
30. 28
Birdi ,   Israel   (06.18.14)
Do stop your banter of which you know nothing. Get your facts right before you post garbage on this site. Enough already.
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