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Israeli’s new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns President Obama that Israel would stop Iran if he wasn’t up to the task
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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Israeli’s new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns President Obama that Israel would stop Iran if he wasn’t up to the task
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Photo by MFA.gov.il.
* JTA.org has this report today and it starts off like this… President Obama must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons or Israel will attack, Benjamin Netanyahu said… Israel's new prime minister, in an interview with the Atlantic [The Atlantic article here] just hours before his swearing-in, said if the Islamic Republic is not stopped quickly, Israel may be forced to attack… “You don’t want a messianic, apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs," Netanyahu told the magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg in what the journalist described as "unusually blunt language."…
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Netanyahu: If U.S. doesn’t stop Iran, Israel will
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* TheGlobeAndMail.com website reports it this way…
Stop Iran or I will
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* TimesOnline.co.uk has this report for us… It was the first issue he mentioned after being elected, and was uppermost on his mind again this week when he swore in his government: it is safe to say that a nuclear-armed Iran will also be top of the agenda when Israel’s new Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, meets Barack Obama in Washington next month… Mr. Netanyahu’s constant reminders of the existential threat facing his country – he has compared it to the Nazi Holocaust - leave him little room to back down, as military intelligence increasingly points to the fact that Iran is about to acquire a nuclear weapon… The question on everyone’s lips is, behind the rhetoric, will - and can - Israel go it alone? If so, how? ...
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World Agenda: Nuclear-armed Iran is fear as Netanyahu visits Obama
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* Bloomberg.com brings us this report today and it starts off like this… Israel may take “preemptive military action” against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said today… Army General David Petraeus told Congress that “the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it.”…
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Petraeus Says Israel Might Choose to Attack Iran
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Netanyahu: If U.S. doesn’t stop Iran, Israel will
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* TheGlobeAndMail.com website reports it this way…
Stop Iran or I will
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* TimesOnline.co.uk has this report for us… It was the first issue he mentioned after being elected, and was uppermost on his mind again this week when he swore in his government: it is safe to say that a nuclear-armed Iran will also be top of the agenda when Israel’s new Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, meets Barack Obama in Washington next month… Mr. Netanyahu’s constant reminders of the existential threat facing his country – he has compared it to the Nazi Holocaust - leave him little room to back down, as military intelligence increasingly points to the fact that Iran is about to acquire a nuclear weapon… The question on everyone’s lips is, behind the rhetoric, will - and can - Israel go it alone? If so, how? ...
Read the rest of this report at link below…
World Agenda: Nuclear-armed Iran is fear as Netanyahu visits Obama
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* Bloomberg.com brings us this report today and it starts off like this… Israel may take “preemptive military action” against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear bomb, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said today… Army General David Petraeus told Congress that “the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it.”…
Read the full report at link below…
Petraeus Says Israel Might Choose to Attack Iran
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>>> FT.com had this post up on their website this evening… Robert Gates would be "surprised" if Israel attacked Iran this year to prevent it developing a nuclear weapon… The US defense secretary told the Financial Times that Washington and Israel had enough time to persuade Tehran to abandon what is widely perceived as a weapons program. Asked if Iran would cross a nuclear red line this year, he said: "I don't know, I would guess probably not. I think we have more time than that. How much more time I don't know. It is a year, two years, three years. It is somewhere in that window."… Mr. Gates does not expect Israel - which believes the US is too sanguine in its estimate of when Iran could develop a nuclear weapon - to take military action this year. "I guess I would say I would be surprised … if they did act this year…
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Israel expected to hold back on Iran as diplomacy runs its course
>>> FT.com had this post up on their website this evening… Robert Gates would be "surprised" if Israel attacked Iran this year to prevent it developing a nuclear weapon… The US defense secretary told the Financial Times that Washington and Israel had enough time to persuade Tehran to abandon what is widely perceived as a weapons program. Asked if Iran would cross a nuclear red line this year, he said: "I don't know, I would guess probably not. I think we have more time than that. How much more time I don't know. It is a year, two years, three years. It is somewhere in that window."… Mr. Gates does not expect Israel - which believes the US is too sanguine in its estimate of when Iran could develop a nuclear weapon - to take military action this year. "I guess I would say I would be surprised … if they did act this year…
Read the full report at link below…
Israel expected to hold back on Iran as diplomacy runs its course
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