Israel:
On Ground Updates
Israel
Declares International Talks with Iran on its Nuclear Program have failed demanding
deadline of just a few weeks to be handed down to Tehran to Halt its Atomic Build-Up
Monday, August 13, 2012
IAF file photo
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* The Telegraph had the following troubling news Sunday Afternoon and it starts of like this… Israel declared that
international talks with Iran on its nuclear program had failed as it demanded
a deadline of "just a few weeks" be handed down to Tehran to scrap
its atomic build-up... It emerged that new intelligence shared with Israel by
the West indicated that Iran had moved several steps closer to developing a
nuclear warhead that could be fitted on the Shahab-3 missile… According to an unidentified official, new
intelligence obtained by Israel, the United States and other Western states
shows that Iran's development of a nuclear weapon is progressing far beyond the
scope reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency…
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report in full at link below…
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* FT.com had
this take on the news out of Israel Sunday… After months of relative quiet, speculation over
an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is once again sharply on the
rise… According to a series of leaks and anonymous briefings to
the Israeli media over the past days, senior leaders in Jerusalem are
discussing the prospect of a military strike with greater urgency than ever.
One report even suggested that the prime minister and defence minister are now
advocating an attack before the US presidential election in November…
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rest at link below…
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* The New York Times had this report posted on their website late
Sunday and it goes in part like this.
…Referring to the Iran negotiations led by the
five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, the
[Israeli] Minister, Danny Ayalon, told Israel Radio that those nations should
“declare today that the talks have failed.” After such a declaration, if Iran
does not halt its nuclear program, “it will be clear that all options are on
the table,” Mr. Ayalon said, not only for Israel, but also for the United
States and NATO… Asked how long
the Iranians should be given to cease all nuclear activity, Mr. Ayalon said “weeks, and not more than that.”…
The comments came after a frenzy of newspaper articles and television reports
over the weekend here suggesting that Mr. Netanyahu had all but made the
decision to attack Iran unilaterally this fall…
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report in full at link below…
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* Boston.com had this
AP report posted up on their website Sunday and this report goes in part
like this. …One indirect indication came Sunday, when Israel's military began sending mock text
messages to cellphones warning of incoming missiles, part of a nationwide
experiment that is to continue through Thursday and reach hundreds of thousands
of cellphone users. Last week, defense officials confirmed that Israel's
top-tier missile defense system has been upgraded… "All threats directed
at the Israeli home front are dwarfed by another threat, different in its
magnitude and substance, and so I have repeated and shall repeat: Iran must not
be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
told his Cabinet on Sunday…
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rest at link below…
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* JPOST.com reports… Iran is disturbed by threats emanating from Israel to strike
its nuclear sites and takes such threats seriously,
a senior Iran expert told The Jerusalem Post…
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full report at link below…
* UPI.com brings
us the following report this early Monday morning and it goes in part like
this. …Maariv [an Israeli Newspaper] said
it was told by sources that if Israel
decided to conduct a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites prior to the
American presidential elections in November, President Barack Obama would
order the U.S. military to support Israel… The U.S. Army would provide a
"defense umbrella" to counter possible missile attacks by Iran and
its allies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the newspaper said…
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short report in full at link below…
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* Arutz Sheva
reports it this way…
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-- Here are a few more reports on topic --
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- World.Time.com… If the White House believes
November will arrive without any nasty surprises in the Iran nuclear
standoff, it is not taking seriously the feverish chatter throughout Israel‘s
media positing an imminent Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic…
- The Times of Israel… PM believes Iran’s regime is
aiming to ‘destroy the Jewish people,’ does not think Obama will resort to
force. Nuclear drive ‘further ahead’ than previously thought. In a year,
Israeli action could have only ‘negligible effect’…
- Haaretz.com… To
ensure that Israel is not forced to bomb Iran, it must maintain the impression
that it is about to bomb Iran…
- Al-Monitor…
- The Huffington Post…
- The Jerusalem Post…
- The Telegraph…
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POST UPDATE:
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
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* Bloomberg brings
us the following report that starts off like this… Dozens of Israelis crowded in front of a
storefront at a Jerusalem shopping mall yesterday to pick up new gas masks,
part of civil defense preparations in case the military strikes Iran and
the Islamic Republic or its allies retaliate… “Our leaders seem to have gotten very hawkish in their speeches and this
time it seems they mean what they say,” said Yoram Lands, 68, a professor
of business administration, who was picking up new masks for himself and his
wife at a distribution center in the mall…
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* The Washington Post has this report… An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program
could trigger a bloody monthlong war on multiple fronts,
killing hundreds of Israelis or more, the Israeli Cabinet’s civil defense chief
warned in an interview published Wednesday… It was the most explicit assessment
yet of how the government sees events unfolding in the aftermath of an Israeli
attack…
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rest at link below…
- Dichter file photo-
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* The Huffington Post reports it this way… Israel's
prime minister on Tuesday appointed a former internal security chief as his
Cabinet minister in charge of civil defense, reflecting the serious concerns
about a potential retaliatory strike if Israel decides to attack Iran's nuclear
installations…
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full report at link below…
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AubreyJ………
All we can do now is wait and see
ROMNEY/RYAN2012
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