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Israel must target the real root of the problem - Iran
Gilad Sharon
Published: 07.09.19, 22:40
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1. Easier to vote out Netanyahu than 2 win against Iran.
(09.08.19)
2. Ariel Sharon's son = Yair Netanyahu = Freeloading sons
(09.08.19)
Neither one has any saavy or wit.
3. Congrats Mr. Sharon & Ynet...
Splendid ,   USA   (09.08.19)
You guys hit this one out of the park!

Are you reading this Mr. Netanyahu/Government of Israel?

Get to work!
4. I totally agree!
Eric ,   Montreal   (09.08.19)
5. ISRAEL HAS TO TAKE THE WAR TO IRAN & PUNISH THEM PERIOD.
oleg ,   fl   (09.08.19)
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. BRING WAR AND MISERY TO THEIR DOOR STEPS. AMEN.
6. Hit them in their pockets
Ralph   (09.08.19)
Go after the mullah oil terminals and oil tankers. Sink their ships.
7. outrageous text
N ,   N   (09.08.19)
I'm appalled to read this outrageous text: "If Tel Aviv or Haifa are threatened, why should people walk freely in Tehran? There's no shortage of Sunni militias that are at odds with Iran - you orchestrate attacks on us, we orchestrate attacks on you, simple and symmetrical."

Symmetrical in that sense would mean that Israel would become Iran.
8. To investigate
Sjoerd van der Velde ,   Hoorn Holland   (09.07.19)
This posibility has to be investigated very carefully, before doing this and when Israel is doing this alone, if this can succeeds. Yes the criminal regime in Tehran needs to be killed or be brought to justice, just as Saddam Husein and Osama bin Laden.
9. As if pals didn't want to destroy Isael with or without Iran
ab   (09.07.19)
Take revenge on Iran ,yes, but don't respond so weakly to pal schemes
10. Is Ynet so short of stories?
Bertram ,   London, UK.   (09.07.19)
Clearly so if it feels the need to headline this kind of meaningless belligerent rhetoric.
11. 100% right on the mark
beryl   (09.07.19)
gilad sharon goes right to the heart of the matter.you should have been running for head of likud or yamini. Baluchis, kurds and others in Iran have been held down. They would be motivated to attack the ayatollah entity. So israel could work through them. When the Iranian home front feels the pain israelis feel, then things might change.

There are two problems blocking your advice from being implemented.

One is netanyahu who limits himself to ineffectual responses to hamas and hezbollah(ask lieberman on this). This because he is scared stiff to launch anything outside of the locale. He talks big but is very weak. People who have worked with him, will tell you he is a weak man. He falls apart under pressure.

The other problem is gantz. based on Gaza war and other missions, you see he does not gets the boys going on offensives. He is very conservative. If things are not going good as in the hezbollah war, he did not so far as I know see olmert and demand a change in strategy.

so gilad, run for a spot and when bibi is deposed, throw your hat in the ring and run for pm.

Your recommendation is refreshing and should have been adopted long time ago but for netanyahu whose style is to talk and not to act. In any case, unlike others, he relies on others and seems to have no curiosity about what an attack would look like. This is my opinion. Lieberman said he had it with bibi paying ransom to hamas. He can call it 1000 different names, it was paying blackmail money in funds and materiel.
12. With or without Iran, Israel won't have a moment of peace
Avi schniller ,   Tel Aviv   (09.08.19)
13. Iran versus vs Israel
Sjoerd van derVelde ,   Hoorn Holland   (09.08.19)
Perhaps Israel is able, without American aid, to defeat Iran.We can say that Iran is one of the main/most important/most dangerous countries of the criminal 'islam" worldcaliphate/Organisation of islamic cooperation, more than 50 countries and about 2 billion.Mahmoud Ahmadjinedjad ex Iranian president said in 2005, that he wants to destroy Israel.Of course this is hate-crime, like Adolf Hitler against the Jewish People. Iran still have not nuclear weapons. Pakistan already has.
14. It started with the first Iraqi war: we've allowed
(09.08.19)
an enemy country to bomb us without attacking them openly, because we were asked "nicely" by a dubious ally, USA!
Since then, it's been downhill, at an alarming rate!!
15. I FULLY agree with that opinion...but neither the US, nor
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (09.08.19)
Israel dares to take the fight to Iran...soon the Nazi mullahs will have the bomb.
16. Agreeing with Avi Metcalfe! Russsia!
(09.09.19)

Avi Metcalfe
Further more, Iran is a proxy of Russia. So the real root of the problem is V. Putin.
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