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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Iran Send More "Love" to Israel

Iranians send their "love" to Israel in the nature of a plan to destroy the country "in nine minutes."  This type of talk is the same as that was occurring before the 1967 and 1973 wars. Will we see an attack, only the Iranians know!

It is amazing to read comments from Israel bashers who ask "why is Israel upping the tension by responding to Iranian threats?"  The answer is simple, in the Middle East, if you do not respond you are inviting an attack as your opponent will see you as weak. In other words, either these bashers do not understand the neighborhood or they are secret anti-Semites or they are naive.

So if you are against Israel, what are your motivations?

Conservative Tom


Iranian official lays out attack plan to destroy Israel in nine minutes

Adam Kredo - The Washington Free Beacon,  February 8th, 2012

An Iranian official closely tied to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has released a detailed plan to attack Israel, according to a Middle East media monitoring site.
Alireza Forghani, an Iranian politician and staunch ally of the regime, recently released an article titled, “Iran Must Attack Israel by 2014,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
The article comes amid an ongoing media debate about whether the Iranian regime’s rhetoric against Israel is as homicidal as some claim. Forghani’s article offers definitive proof that Iran is determined to annihilate the Jewish state.
While some in the American media would downplay the regime’s murderous language, observers on Capitol Hill are viewing Iran with growing alarm.
“When the outrageous rhetoric from Ahmadinejad and people like Forghani is coupled with the capability, with nuclear weapons, to actually destroy the Jewish State of Israel, we can’t afford to dismiss what they are repeatedly telling the world,” said a Capitol Hill aide who tracks Iran. “The Hill is taking the threat from Iran very seriously.”
Forghani’s recent article reads like a blueprint for the destruction of Israel. In it, he “claims that Tehran is capable of annihilating Israel within less than nine minutes using its arsenal of missiles and by deploying operational combat units throughout the world,” MEMRI writes.
Forghani ideologically roots his essay in Khamenei’s extremist interpretation of Islam, arguing that Muslims are obligated to attack Israel for it’s so-called occupation of Palestinian lands.
He advocates for a two-stage attack, the first of which would focus on Israel’s most densely populated areas, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. Forghani states that Iran could use its medium-range Shahab-3 missiles to annihilate these cities, which are home to around 60 percent of Israel’s population.
During the second phase of the attack, Iran could use its solid-fueled Sejil missiles to destroy Israeli power plants, sewage treatment facilities, and transportation infrastructure, among other sites, according to the essay, which was translated into English by MEMRI.
The ultimate goal, according to Forghani: The “final annihilation of Israel’s people.”
“It would seem that the article, whose publication coincided with statements by [Ayatollah] Khamenei, in his Friday speech of February 3, about the need to wipe out the ‘cancerous growth’ of Israel, is the regime’s response to recent statements by Israeli leaders regarding the necessity of attacking Iran,” MEMRI writes in its analysis of Forghani’s essay. “While Forghani, who notes that his article expresses his own views and not necessarily those of the regime, states that Iran must take it upon itself to annihilate Israel, Khamenei has avoided pitting Iran as an active combatant against Israel, keeping his country in a supportive role of assisting other forces against Israel.”

2 comments:

  1. This was printed February 2, 2012...

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-israel-preparing-to-attack-iran/2012/02/02/gIQANjfTkQ_story.html

    Then, almost immediately, we get the February 4, 2012 response from the Forghani guy who states in his article that it is a "response to Israeli declarations regarding the necessity of stopping Iran's nuclear program with a military strike."

    Israel is not jacking up the rhetoric in response to Iran. In this case (i.e., what has happened in the last 10 days), Iran is the side escalating the rhetoric so as not appear "weak", as you say.

    As I said in my last note, it defies credulity (even if Iran had started this latest war of words) to believe that Iran believes Israel is weak. They are well-aware of Israel's military strength, and saw a powerful demonstration of it as recently as the 2006 Lebanon War. With this new missile defense system, Israel is now more formidable than ever. So I just don't buy your "weakness perception" argument.

    I believe that the most plausible explanation of this new wave of threats and counter-threats from both sides is an effort -- for reasons I previously stated -- to draw the other side into firing the first shot.

    You seem very quick to dismiss me as a "basher" or "anti-Semitic" without considering the merits of my statement. I would like to see both the Israelis and the Iranians cool the bombastic language before one of them actually succeeds in scaring the other country into a first-strike war. That would be a disaster for both of them, the region, and the United States.

    --David

    P.S. If Ron Paul can win in Maine today, that would be 4 straight losses for Romney. Santorum is the guy with momentum now. He is beating Romney now in some polls in large states. I saw that Romney called himself a "conservative" 29 times in his CPAC speech. So far, "the dogs are not eating the dog food." Wall Street may have placed their bets wrong this time.

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  2. I did not have you in mind when I wrote the article. I am concerned with many people in this country and abroad that are unaware of current events, no less, it's history.
    The back and forth is not a recent event but has been going on for centuries. Iran is just the latest in those threatening Israel' s existence. Ironically, Israel never has threatened to "eliminate from the face of the world" any enemy. Why is the world deaf to that?

    I am seeing Santorum this week, it should be interesting. You may be right about wall street.

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