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No compromise with Iran
Robert D. Onley
Published: 31.10.08, 00:51
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1. great article, now
observer   (10.31.08)
Great article, now forward it to livni, olmert, barak, netanyahoo, ashkenazi, peres, and the rest of our politicians.. Send them a cup of coffee while your at it, cause it seems they are asleep.
2. Listen people!
Yehuda ,   Holit,Israel   (10.31.08)
This is the simple basic truth. We need to stop our BS and protect ourselves or there will be nothing left to protect.
3. Under Obama Israel is TOTALLY ISOLATED
Dr. Dave ,   NYC   (10.31.08)
Expect "0" sympathy from the man who proclaimed .......Palestinians "are the most oppressed people on earth:
4. THE END GAME
AverageJoe ,   USA   (10.31.08)
Well said. The rational options have well expired. Iran is a menace to the civilized world along with its minions. . Enemy armament has reached critical mass. Only unleashing the most brutal and violent attack on all enemy fronts can end this madness forever . TOTAL decimation of all enemy fronts is the only solution. TheTit for Tat police action game is over. Combine Nuclear bunker busting strikes with an aerial blitzkrieg that will end this conflict once and for all. It is only after the complete and total destruction of Israels sworn enemies can the whole world begin to live in true peace
5. you are 100% right
eric ,   usa nyc   (10.31.08)
6. This article is 100% accurate. It is so true.
Gary A., MD, Phd ,   Boston, USA   (10.31.08)
Bravo for telling it like it is.
7. militray action long overdue
Septimus ,   Rome   (10.31.08)
This is a good article. Isreal needs to pot apart its internal poliitical divisions, and to look seriously into that challenge that pose the Shiite entity nuclear project coupled with the genocidal wish of their leaders. If Israel want to have afuture, it passe trough a militray strike against the shiite entity. There are no substitute to militray action to stop the ayatollah. They are the kind of people who don't understand nothing other than a higher amount of force. Don't hesitate to strike at them, and us efor it all the weapons you have in your arsenal. Moderation is a crime when we are speaking about that terrible regime
8. Iran -
Andita ,   Los Angeles   (10.31.08)
This article has much truth. The world is cowardly. Ahmadinejad is despicable and dangerous and they all remain silent. Iran is dangerous. I do not know if Israel has to act now. I know that the US under Bush has done nothing and would never have done anything since they got bogged down in Iraq and can't even deal with Afganistan and Pakistan. And we are just bleeding dollars in Iraq. One very good thing about the economic downturn is the drop in the price of oil to less than half of what it had been. This weakens Iran so that they won't have money for their nuclear program. Ahmadinejad will be out of office in June. I do not know who will replace him but certainly it will not be the same taunting, hate-monger. Israelis need to understand that Obama has a lot of Jewish support. Obama is going to be a very good, thoughtful president and is going to be good for the US, the world and Israel too. He is not going to let problems fester. He will be strong toward Iran and will get the whole world against them. Also, he will work for peace -- and that is what is needed, sooner rather than later.
9. Faster the better
Daniel ,   ISRAEL   (10.31.08)
10. The world must awake to the threat this man poses to ...
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (10.31.08)
The world must awake to the threat this man poses to all of us. Ahmadinejad denies that the Holocaust ever took place. He dreams of being an agent in a "Final Solution" - the elimination of the Jewish people. He has called Israel a "stinking corpse" that is "on its way to annihilation." Such talk cannot be dismissed as the ravings of a madman -not when Iran just this summer tested long-range Shahab-3 missiles capable of striking Tel Aviv, not when the Iranian nuclear program is nearing completion, and not when Iran sponsors terrorists that threaten and kill innocent people around the world.
11. Decisions for the security of Israel should be taken in ...
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (10.31.08)
Decisions for the security of Israel should be taken in Jerusalem not in Washington. Today the U.S. is doing everything it can to restrain Israel from hitting Iran’s Nuclear facilities - despite Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s frequent promises to "wipe Israel off the map". Israel will not be allowed to refuel in or fly over Iraq (despite control by American forces) because the Arabists in the State Department say "No!" There is no argument that Israel can offer in terms of her vulnerability that will change their collective mind-set to allow Israel to defend herself.
12. I have No Doubt That soon Israel
Larry ,   Zefat Israel   (10.31.08)
Will be annilhilated.Just like the jews of Europe 60 years ago.Israeli leaders far too occupied and dedicated to nonsense such as did a female Teacher have sex with her 17 year-old student and the terrible tragedy of a jewish"Settler "building a hut from corrugated Iron and cardboard on the "West Bank"to worry about Iran.Just like the yom kippur war of 1973 the stupid Israelis will again be taken by surprise,this time to devastating effect.Olmert,Livni and Barak...WAKE UP.
13. And do what?
daniel   (10.31.08)
We cannot prevent Iran from going nuclear.
14. A new Haman
Yehuda Ben Yisrael ,   Lisboa, Portugal   (10.31.08)
Never again. A second Purim will be arriving. As Streicher said in the Nuremberger Trials when he was being hanged with his companions: PURIM FEST 1946!
15. Unity
Rina   (10.31.08)
Well said! Unity is certainly a strong virtue in the nation of Israel; so too not to place our hope for protection in others. I differ however in placing hope in our forces. Our hope and trust as Israel needs to be in Elohim first; the source of perfect balance: justice and mercy.
16. #12
Rina   (10.31.08)
Two people can read the same book: one sees death and dying and one sees hope and a future. This country has a way of spewing out people who come here with the wrong attitude (or in the wrong spirit). Israelis are not as stupid as you think. Pray for wisdom from Elohim for our leaders before you may have to make your way back into the eye of the storm. I believe there is more danger in that than in the eye itself.
17. When.......
Ram ,   London   (10.31.08)
will the Israeli government heed this man's and millions of others words! Can Israel afford to wait until Iran goes nuclear. The answer is an emphatic NO! Why is Israel allowing Hizbullah and Hamas to grow stronger by the day? Does the government not equate it to increased fatalities on Israel's side when the "inevitable" fateful day arrives? Logic seems to have lost its way. While Israel procrastinates with the situation it find itself in, it is humiliating to witness its reliance on the UN, the US, the EEC and the IAEA, a group with attitudes ranging from blatant "anti-Israel" to "total ineffectiveness". Who wants war? Certainly nobody with a normal mind. But if it is clear they are out to smite you do you just wait for that to happen?
18. # 16 Keep sicking your Head in the Sand
Larry ,   zefat israel   (10.31.08)
Like the jews of Germany.
19. #16 Don't Threaten Me with your voodoo
Larry ,   zefat israel   (10.31.08)
Superstitious crap about being spewed out. A people that beats up its own citizens and gives their precious land to their enemies must be stupid,or else worse,Wicked.
20. Israelis are fed with fear for political purposes!
John ,   Europe   (10.31.08)
Iran will go nuclear and will not obliterate Israel! And NOT because he loves Jews or because he fears "Jewish retaliation", but because to destroy Israel fully, he needs AT LEAST 5 bombs - 1 for each big city in Israel! He encounters then: 1) A strong nuclear residue that will spread over Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon in first cicle, then Iran over second, Europe on third etc. If somebody here thinks that these countries will LOVE to be radioactive, think again. 2) A direct retalitation of Israeli allies that would EATHER make Iran nuclear desert, OR total ocupation: but NOT "lenient" ocupation that you have in Iraq, where every violation of human rights is "unheard of" - but harsh occupation that would masacre Iranian population of every sign of dicontent. I am talking of suspension of human rights on these areas and NO non-government organizations, no matter what they do, will re-establish that. Even if they do collective self-burning type suicide in front of White House. 3) Did I mention the direct confiscation of ALL Iranian assets over borders of Iran? 4) If a single of Israelies survive and they WILL: The Gideon plan, infamous plan that Mordechai Vanunu uncovered: in case of nuclear attack on Israel, there will be direct response with all (non-existing) nuclear weapons, about 200 of it: on Damask, Cairo, Teheran, Dubai etc. 200 bombs is something that no Earth can handle - and if somebody thinks that fallout is great, I agree with him, only when it comes to a computer game (Fallout). And please: before you start with the ghennet stories and 72 virgines, and heaven for killing kuffar - that is stories for UNEDUCATED. There are many Arabs that are educated and know that nuclear war is not something that Kur'an will aproove. No, Iran, wants the Bomb so he can make himself a force in the Arab world and engage Saudi Arabia.
21. And I don't have doubt, Larry, #12, that you are ignorant
john ,   Europe   (10.31.08)
There are VAST differences between the situation 60 years ago and today. Starting with the fact that Israel is LEGAL STATE, recognized by the UN, and that annihilation of a legal state is a dangerous precedence! Jews in Nazi Germany were NOT A NATION, were NOT A PEOPLE, but were recognized as a PART OF GERMAN NATION/POLISH NATION/RUSSIAN NATION, so all executions and destruction was protected LEGALY by a "soveregnity of the borders" - INTERNAL affairs of a country. Believe it or not, buster, but a killing of 20.000 Jews in Poland was "internal matter of German Reich", when you look at it LEGALY. Similar legal problem you have now in DARFOUR. So, I am more concerned about killings of Hamas and civilians, than about Iranian nuclear program.
22. # 20 John Mind your Own Business
Larry ,   zefat israel   (10.31.08)
23. #21 Stay in Europestan you sucker
Larry ,   zefat israel   (10.31.08)
24. paranoid jews
greg ,   chch, new zealand   (10.31.08)
Iran is not going to nuke Israel, they are not that stupid as they know they would be annhilated if they did. Israel have nuclear weapons and did not sign the NPT, they are the evil ones and are constantly threating to pre-emptivly invade other countries. Israel are the agressors in the region.
25. #21 The Ignorant One Is You
Larry ,   zefat israel   (10.31.08)
26. overplay the Iranian threar
matt ,   uk   (10.31.08)
To me this article overplays the Iranian threat. Don't forget Iran has no attacked another country for over 200 years. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of Israel
27. Why should America help?
Dorian ,   Raleigh, USA   (10.31.08)
We are viewed as the bad guy, no matter what we do, so why should we help? How about Israel steps up and sorts out there own crap. It is not like Iran can just march over to Israel and invade. They have the American army between them. Now is the best time to attack them. They do not have the bravado that $147 oil gives anymore.
28. Shocking! Jews have learned nothing from history.
Steve ,   Fla.   (10.31.08)
The U.S. and the Allies had little regard for European Jews under Nazi occupation. Other than lip-service, the Allies did nothing. U.S. pursued her own self-interests in a war against murderous tryanny. The fact that the Jews have been looking to a faithless George W. Bush to save Israel from genocidal Iran is perplexing indeed. The U.S. cares only about American interests. Face the facts. No one is going to come to the help the Jews.
29. If you hit Iran,you will be destroyed
Observer   (10.31.08)
Don´t delude yourself,iranians will respond hard to any israeli or american attack in Israel.No matter if americans supports you or not,Iran will retaliate with hard measures.You won´t be sure anywhere,in anytime.Thousands of american soldiers will be killed and cautive by iranian soldiers,and if you want to play more,then Iran will make official its nuclear power with more dangerous consequences for Israel ,America and the world.
30. Too Much Talk
mitch ,   USA   (10.31.08)
No one seems to recall that it was Israeli military and poltical leaders who threatened Iran with an attack BEFORE Ahmadinejad came to office. Your leaders made the first verbal threat, now that their outburst has received a response you ignore their initial responsibility for it.
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