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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Farewell to Zion. Forever.
2009-04-09
Interesting point:
Israel knows it must do take out the nuclear weapons capability of Iran. And yet, Israel will not be able to do it. Not because it doesn't have the military might to do so. And not because it lacks the will. But because Barack Obama will order the United States Air Force to stand in its way if it tries. Between the airfields of Israel and the reactors and research labs and storage facilities of Iran sit the armed forces of the United States and its hundreds of planes, missiles and radar. With our bases in Iraq and those floating in the Persian Gulf, the United States separates Israel and Iran. Obama would have to give his okay for Israel to pass. Obama will not.

In fact, he will have the United States erect an armed barrier to Israel.
I don't know that Bambi would do that; I don't know that he would get the chance if the Israelis decided not to pre-clear the raid with us. He could order it as a standing policy but odds are good such an order would leak.

Another interesting point:
The minute Iran has the bomb, Israel will begin to shrink. Jews in Israel will start to pack up and leave. Some at first, but more and more over time, Israelis will leave. Panic will begin to set in after the first 100,000 Jews or so have left their homes vacant. Businesses will be unable to fill job openings. The armed forces will find themselves combining brigades and companies.

Iran won't even have to fire a nuclear warhead at Israel to destroy it. The certainty that Iran can incinerate Israel, and the certainty that Iran will shortly do so, will be enough to convince enough of the six million Jews living in Israel today that they either must leave or be turned to ash that the economy and polity will lose viability.
Posted by:Sloluter Spuque2400

#4  It's a gloomy analysis, it's possible, but it's probably not what will happen nor how.

If anything, what's more likely is the effect on the arab world before the effect on Israel.

There's already an islamic bomb, and this would be a persian bomb, but where is the arab bomb?

Worse yet, what happens to the oil supply while the US, arab world and interested others react to Iran? What does Iraq do?

Again, will Iran go straight at Israel, or will it elect another "reform" leader to cover a period of misdirection and alternative acts, whatever and wherever they may be?

How will Ethiopia mind be surrounded by islamic "allies" of nuclear powers? Kuwait, Bahrain, etc?


Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2009-04-09 22:29  

#3  I'm shaking.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-04-09 17:00  

#2  Israel just needs to get a nuke in a truck near one of the Iranian nuke bases. PLan the nuke to be a similar yield as an Iranian nuke. Bam, destroy the iranian nuke program so that it looks like an accident. Even Iranians sychophants will have trouble defending their nuke program then.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-04-09 15:26  

#1  I wouldn't write them off just yet. Preventing this sort of thing is precisely why Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-04-09 14:57  

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