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AS I PREVIOUSLY WROTE: FOR THE WANT OF A NAIL. I could not agree more:
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IRAN SPINS CENTRIFUGES WHILE ISRAEL SPINS DREIDELS
By David E. Sarfatti
Everyday I read the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel online, sometimes two or three times a day. What do I see? Total political dysfunction: Did Sara Netanyahu have a personal chef? Arrest her! Did Bibi accept a box of cigars from a visitor? Imprison him! Doctors threatening to go on strike. Some professionals ! A fourth or fifth up-coming election, who could keep count?
But, while all of this mishegas continues Iran is single-minded. Enrich uranium to destroy the Jews. In fact, they already have enough enriched U235 to construct a bomb in less than a month. The moment of decision for Israel is today. America will not come to the rescue. We have not supplied deep bunker busters. We won’t even supply long range tanker planes so Israeli bombers can re-fuel. Right now it’s a close to a one-way trip.
Yes, it’s time to say it. As former Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barack recently admitted, the “window has closed“ where a military solution can succeed. But, of course, this is only true if one limits the response to a conventional attack. It is time for Israel to issue an ULTIMATUM to Iran and the World. Never Again means Never Again. Not Today, Not in the Future, Not Ever ! If Iran persists on its murderous path, Israel will use ANY and ALL means to stop it in its tracks, definitively.
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I am reposting an excerpt to a question I put to Cliff May again.
Delay seldom if ever works. Hesitancy seldom if ever works. Mental paralysis seldom if ever works. Bibi and Barak were right and timidity undercut them.
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"It would have been easier for the IDF to cripple Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and personnel years ago, before the development of advanced centrifuges. But former prime minister Bibi Netanyahu’s cabinet, along with the head of the IDF, declined to back him when he and his defense minister Ehud Barak wanted to attack twelve years ago. Now, it’s very likely that neither Israel’s political class nor its airmen are confident that they can strike as effectively.
Jerusalem’s tempo of attacks on Iranian interests in the region in the last two years, including assassinations inside Iran, is, therefore, best understood as an upping of the conventional ante. These actions signal to Tehran that its nuclear accomplishments will not deter Israel from pushing back against the clerical regime when it can. Jerusalem’s more aggressive behavior isn’t a girding of the loins before a preventive attack but an acknowledgment that it has failed to stop the clerical regime’s nuclear ambitions.
That might change as Israelis internalize the possible ramifications of the Islamic Republic’s going nuclear. The clerical regime, which has repeatedly sponsored or directed terrorism against Jews worldwide, might provoke Jerusalem one too many times, giving the high ground to those who still want to act.
The same still might be true for the United States. Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, might make a monumental mistake and execute a mass-casualty terrorist attack against Americans. Over the years, under Democrats and Republicans, Washington has blinked at Iranian terrorism — and, in Iraq, Iranian-sponsored militia attacks against U.S. forces — and done little in response. Khamenei undoubtedly approved the thwarted bombing of an Iranian opposition rally outside of Paris in 2018; if it had succeeded, hundreds, including many Americans, might have died. The supreme leader, who can expatiate endlessly on his enmity for the United States, might let hubris get the better of him — he’s unquestionably winning in his decades-old quest to develop nuclear weapons. If enough Americans died through Iranian terrorism, the bipartisan reluctance to support another military foray into the Middle East might evaporate."
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