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Israel, US to stage major defense drill
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Published: 05.01.12, 22:47
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1. There's a hundred ways to 'milk' the cow ,...
split ,   US   (01.05.12)
Joint drill - Who's going to pay for it ?
2. Unfortunately Obama failed miserably
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to cooperate and support Israel on strategiacally crucial political matters. Now he tries to mend the image (based on facts), of having been, and stil being an essentially anti-Israeli president, running an essentially anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli Administration. This drill helps the US more than it helps Israel so all this euphoria of cooperaction cannot hide the fact that this is nothing more than a clumsy Obama attempt to steal Jewish votes from the Republicans. Don't fall for it!
3. We don't need a military historian to tell us it's partly
Henry from New York ,   USA   (01.05.12)
meant to intimidate Iran. As well, #1. We do, but it's either that or not have our soldiers properly drilled and no one wants that as it costs lives when our men and women in uniform are not properly prepared.
4. #3 - I'm interested in your statement?
Michael Redbourn ,   Arad Israel   (01.06.12)
How do you know that only the US pays? Just asking?
5. Send US troops to Palestine to protect them from the Jews
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (01.06.12)
...that will save more lives than an illusory missile defense system that has never worked and will never work.
6. Israel is only non-Arabspring country that is left for US
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7. arrow defense
will ,   wa, usa   (01.06.12)
i wonder if Isaiah 17 verse 1 may soon come to pass should Iran launch it's nuke. arrow defense system knocks it down and it lands in Syria. Also quite possible Iran just misses Israel totally when they launch. Either way, G-d has your backs.
8. Israel=usa
David ,   Montreal,Canada   (01.06.12)
Lets face it, Israel is a US satalite. And like brothers we can argue, but we are one family.
9. #4, you're right. I apologise. I meant to say that the
Henry from New York ,   USA   (01.06.12)
participants pay and that would include Israel and her citizens. I wrote that without thinking and once again apologise for the obvious offensive implication conveyed in my original message (that it's just the US footing the bill when there is no indication that that is the case).
10. # 5
Birdi ,   Israel   (01.06.12)
Breaking news to you, you horror, there is no country on the map of the world called palestine.
11. IMBECILLES -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (01.06.12)
I Quote - Message to Iran Martin Van Creveld, a military historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said Thursday that the drill was intended not only to practice military maneuvers but also to pressure Iran. Comment - Yeah - pressure lastng a decade for now. Do you think Iran is impressed or scared. "Defending against an attack is not something that you improvise from today to tomorrow. It's something you have to prepare, you have to rehearse, you have to prepare for," Van Creveld said. "This, among other things, is an exercise to show Iran, the people in Tehran, that Israel and the United States are ready to counterattack," he said. Comment - Iran does not care. And just counterattack and not strike first spells disaster. This is only ridiculus. Flexing the Mussels Iran already has prepered to meat the last decade. Nr 2 also have a point here. Israel must act and not counteract. Arn.Sweden.
12. Just a question: where will this drill be held?
Marianne Blume ,   Belgium   (01.06.12)
13. splitbrain 1
john Darren ,   cairns-Australia   (01.06.12)
Why-do you care?
14. Hit the Holocaust Deniers
Zivron   (01.06.12)
Hit the leadership that had the Holcaust Denial Conference and White Supremacist NeoNAZIS with the deluded Netura Karta imbeciles who rely on Israels Jews to defend them from masochistic Dhimmi and massacres and tortures like Hebron in 1929. The fools rejected the Haganah offer of defense and their children were massacred false prophets.
15. your time is near
asli ,   jakarta   (01.06.12)
the time start count down on you.
16. Obama to the rescue
Bill ,   Eshkolot   (01.06.12)
So now that US elections approach, Obama is demonstrating how much a friend he is to Israel, by thumping his chest with "Austere Challenge 12" and "Juniper Cobra 10." It's like there were no joint exercises before the great one appeared on the scene. But don't you wonder who lead off with Austere Challenges one through 11, or Juniper Cobra 1 through 9? At some point people on both sides of the pond will need to see that the friendship offered by Obama is political, at best, and only when he's the politician. That being said, I welcome the arrival of US troops, and wish them a successful training mission. I hope they get a few days leave while they're here, so they can try to gain a non-political view of Israel.
17. #1 - who knows who's paying but ..
Michael Redbourn ,   Arad Israel   (01.06.12)
Your post suggests that you think that Israel will gain at America's expense, which in turn suggests that you don't understand the symbiotic relationship between Israel and the US. Both sides gain from the relationship! ourchangingglobe dot com/the-us-israel-relationship-is-a-significant-asset-to-us-national-interests Replace the word dot with a . and remove the two spaces. Please read and digest it because I imagine you wrongly complain to a lot of people about how the US carries Israel etc, And it's not true!
18. #5 Last time I was cursed it was "Jew, go to Palestine"
Al Kafir ,   Al Quds, ISRAEL   (01.06.12)
Now I am here, back home, showing cretins like yourself the three-fingers salute and thoroughly enjoying your frustration at seeing Jews able to defend themselves and kicking the bejesus out of racist pigs like yourself. So where would you rather have me? In MY HOME or in YOUR HOME?
19. #11: voices from Sweden
Sarah B. ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.06.12)
Should stay in Sweden. You throw out a lot of trash talk, but we all know if push comes to shove your ilk will stay where you are and not back Isarel.
20. #5 steve
solomon ,   bklyn   (01.06.12)
I am always amazed how you know everything. It is even more striking in that everything you know is in direct contradiction to facts; to past events in the real world. In this case, to successful tests of the missiles, to the fact that it is the arabs who are trying to kill the Jews. Amazing.
21. Nr 19. He -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (01.06.12)
First - I dont think this is the Genuine Sarah but an imposter Second - My intention regarding Israel this imposter does not know. Arn.Sweden.
22. Martin van Creveld was wrong.
Eytan Leibovitz ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (01.06.12)
In 2007, van Creveld commented that: "Iran is the real victor in Iraq, and the world must now learn to live with a nuclear Iran the way we learned to live with a nuclear Soviet Union and a nuclear China.... We Israelis have what it takes to deter an Iranian attack. We are in no danger at all of having an Iranian nuclear weapon dropped on us.... thanks to the Iranian threat, we are getting weapons from the U.S. and Germany." Van Creveld was wrong about Iran behaving rationally from the moment it possesses a nuclear warhead. Iran has to be stopped as soon as possible.
23. Don't point the gun when you know you can't shoot
Basil ,   Nigeria   (01.06.12)
Dont point the gun when you know you can't shoot soon.
24. The post at No. 19 is not mine
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.06.12)
25. To: No. 1
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.06.12)
Not you. I doubt you pay taxes in any jurisdiction. Go milk your cow.
26. To: No. 5
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.06.12)
Israeli Jews are not the suicide bombers, IED deployers or murderers of sleeping families. Nor do they deliberately fire missiles at civilian populations. The ersatz "Palestinians" have nothing to fear from us -- as long as they behave. When they misbehave -- well -- pay your money; take your chances. One does wonder, however, why the ersatz "Palestinians" are such a murderous and violent lot. Jews certainly neither want nor need them in our midst. They're nothing more than a malignant cancer.
27. DEFENSIVE MOVE?
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (01.06.12)
28. To: No. 27
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.06.12)
Hardly. It's a strongly worded message to Iran that (i) the United States will not sit idly by if its only dependable ally in the Middle East gets into an altercation with Iran; (ii) make no mistake which side of the fray the United States will take; and (iii) look what the United States and Israel can do to Iran if Iran is so foolish as to close the Straits of Hormuz.
29. Relax, it's just the sound of the drums of war
Bad Assed Jew ,   United States   (01.07.12)
Iran needs to see the combined joint military exercises to know the implied threat is real. So far, all Iran really demonstrates is a huff and puff policy of supposed military threats.
30. paid for by both USA and Israel, jointly.
Bad Assed Jew ,   United States   (01.07.12)
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