Israel: On Ground Updates - June 6, 2008

Israel:
On Ground Updates
Attack on Iran “Unavoidable”
Says Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz
Friday, June 6, 2008

An Israeli minister has said an attack on Iran's nuclear sites will be "unavoidable" if Tehran refuses to halt its alleged weapons programme.
In the most explicit threat yet by a member of Ehud Olmert's government, Shaul Mofaz, a deputy prime minister, said the hardline Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "would disappear before Israel does".
"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Mofaz, who is also Israel's transport minister, said in comments published today by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
"Attacking Iran in order to stop its nuclear plans will be unavoidable."...
Read the rest at Guardian.co.uk

* EcoDiario.es website has this take on the story...
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday... "If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective," Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper... "Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable," said the former army chief who has also been defence minister...
Read the full report at link below...
Officials says Iran attack "unavoidable"

Image Credit: IDF Spokesperson
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* IsraelNationalNews.com has this reports...
Sapir College Hit in Rocket and Mortar Attack on Western Negev
And this report...
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