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| Israel to give US 12 hour warning before attack Iran |
| 2012-01-22 |
| Maariv reports this morning that today's edition of the Sunday Times (UK) revealed that Israel advised US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey during his visit this weekend that Israel will not ask for the permission of the US to attack Iran and will only give America a 12 hour warning before the attack. According to the report, Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't trust President Obama and is concerned that Mr. Obama would do everything in his power to prevent an attack if he knew about it in advance - this out of concern that oil prices would spike during an election year. The Sunday Times further reports that an Israeli security source told the Sunday Times that Israel was shocked when it learned that the US-Israel security exercise that had been planned for two years was postponed by the U.S. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #16 IMO iff Israel = Netanyahu doesn't really trust the Bammer as alleged, then there is no reason for Israel to give the US 12 hours advance notice of attack. Notice to the Bammer that an attack agz Iran is underway will suffice. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-22 21:10 |
| #15 If I'm GMT -7 and they're GMT +5, isn't that about 12 hours? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-01-22 18:26 |
| #14 It's like they are playing with POTUS. Heh. I would too. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-01-22 17:23 |
| #13 Ok, hands up, anybody dumb enough to believe this. |
| Posted by: Mojo 2012-01-22 15:45 |
| #12 How about we notify Rush Limbaugh, and he'll notify Obama? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-01-22 15:37 |
| #11 Obean: "You said that you would attack after 12 hours, and I went to the trouble of alerting my buddies in the MSM and mobilizing a bunch of assets so that Iran would know what was going on. Now you're still here unfortunately, and I look like even more of a corrupt idiot than before, if that is even possible. What gives?" Bibi: "We changed our mind. Certainly you can relate to that." |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-01-22 14:21 |
| #10 CF wins the nefarious idea of the day, and Murcek wins the snark award. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-01-22 14:05 |
| #9 Maariv reports this morning that todayÂ’s edition of the Sunday Times (UK) revealed No actual sources mentioned. Given that Israel previously has stated it will not warn the U.S. ahead of time, this feels an awful lot like when Thomas Friedman of the New York Times tried to create peace negotiations between Israel and Saudi Arabia based on something said in passing over dinner. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-22 14:03 |
| #8 CF for good idea of the day. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-01-22 13:56 |
| #7 ROFL, Richard. :-D Damn fine idea, CF. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-22 13:47 |
| #6 You know, what with time zones and AM and PM, it's easy to get mixed up. SHIT! I thought you meant this afternoon. Oh, well, they can probably hear the explosions. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2012-01-22 13:44 |
| #5 Not that big of a deal. As Hebrew is read from right to left, they'll just give 12 hours warning the day after the attack. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2012-01-22 13:42 |
| #4 They should give the warning to the U.S. and *not* attack - just watch what happens and who Obumbles passes the info on to - and how they react. Watching the Iranian defenses light up might be instructive as well. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-01-22 11:55 |
| #3 "12 hours" is relative. Israel is smart enough to look for, or arrange, a clear Iranian casus belli. They would set this up so that some Iranian military unit would fire active weaponry at *someone*, so that Iran would have officially "caused" the war. So who should Iran, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, attack? US forces? Saudi Arabia, Qatar or the UAE? Volgograd? Some unconventional, if ineffective, attack in Israel? And how should it be done? A few SHAHAB-3 missiles ineffectively fired at a carrier group, Riyadh, or even Mecca? (snicker). Anti-ship missiles fired at Russian ships in the Baltic? Multiple bomb attacks that damage conveniently empty buildings? Lots of possibilities. But the end result would be Israel calling Hillary at 3am to say, Iran has launched military/missile attacks, so we are "counterattacking" ASAP. This is your "12 hour notice". "You may want to first give a call to Moscow and Riyadh." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-22 11:07 |
| #2 "Israel to give US 12 hour warning before attack Iran" That's what they want us to believe. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-22 11:02 |
| #1 12 Hours? Plenty of time for Bambi to alert the MSM and his goat loving Muzzie friends. Recommend Israel go radio-silent and let Bambi figure it out from the smoke and skyward debris plumes. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2012-01-22 10:25 |