FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OFTEN RESPOND TO A MAMMON PINCH WHEN NOTHING ELSE WORKS!
October 26, 2007
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We still have several years to dilly-dally with Iran over its development of a deliverable nuclear warhead, but we are not sitting on Iran’s back porch like Israel, and do not need to take tranquillizers at this point.
It is apparent that the Europeans are finally waking up to the European invasion by Islam since the breakup of the colonial empires following World War II.
Ironically, since Russia is objecting so strenuously to the American plan to build a missile defensive shield in Poland, it may be that the only protection Europe will have against a future missile attack by Iran will be the great number of Muslims living there.
However, the real opinion the Iranians have of the Palestinians, is such that it is likely to serve as an incentive, rather than a deterrent, to launch missiles on Israel.
Sooner or later someone will have to attack the Iranian nuclear sites, and in the end, it may be Israel acting alone.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
DEBKAfile Reports: An Iranian organization (Hizballah’s Friends) declares every American a “terrorist” after Washington unveils a new package of extra-tough sanctions Thursday
October 25, 2007, 3:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The package was to be announced jointly by secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and treasury secretary Henry Paulson and include branding Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and the al Qods Brigade sponsor of terrorists. The defense ministry is also singled out for sanctions.
These steps are unprecedented. DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources recall that the Islamic regime announced in advance that approval of these measures would be deemed tantamount to an American declaration of war on Iran and call forth retaliation. Tehran would target US interests in the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan or Israel by means of Special Groups, i.e. Iran’s foreign intelligence networks, Hizballah or Hamas.
DEBKAfile’s sources reveal that these reprisals may be delayed some days because of a profound power struggle taking place in Iran’s leadership. However, since the supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is directly affected as commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces, including the IRGC and its al Qods Brigade, Tehran cannot afford to let Washington’s accusations go unanswered.
The new sanctions package includes US financial penalties for any world firms trading with the Revolutionary Guards.
They would apply to more than 1,000 companies in Europe, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and Asia. Our Iranian sources note that since IRGC-owned companies control more than 35 percent of Iran’s economic activities, the new sanctions will have a crippling effect on its national economy. This is already hard hit by Washington’s systematic blockage of Iran’s dealings with international banks, which has left Tehran seriously short of cash flow, foreign currency and basic commodities.
According to DEBKAfile’s sources, Iran very recently sent Indonesia an “emergency appeal” for gasoline and heavy oil, because it has run out of currency to pay for imported refined oil products.
Tehran offered to reward Jakarta with a concession for building big new oil refineries, which Iran lacks.
Indonesia has not yet replied. Its government must take into account that no serious world oil enterprise would be willing to cooperate in a refinery project in Iran for fear of a backlash from the American boycott.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
MK Eitam: ‘Israel Will Have To Attack Iran’
14 Cheshvan 5768, 26 October 07 06:01
by Shauna Naghi
(IsraelNN.com) The time will come that Israel will have to defend itself and attack Iran to stop it from becoming a nuclear power, Knesset Member Effie Eitam has warned.
Speaking recently at the town of Beit El in Samaria, he declared, “Israel has the right and the ability to defend itself and that day is around the corner” but expressed confidence that the United States would stand by Israel. He said the Iranian threat is very real.
“There is no exaggeration and we should not underestimate that cloud which hangs over the State of Israel.”
MK Eitam, a decorated hero in the Yom Kippur War, commander in the Gaza region during the first Intifada and an officer in the daring 1976 Entebbe rescue mission of Israeli hostages in Uganda, maintained that Israel cannot rely only its military strength. Power by itself will not end the threat that Israel faces in maintaining its true strength of “morals and principals [that] lie in its Jewish identity,” he said. “The ultimate solution is education, awareness [and] lifestyle of how Jews should be and live as individuals, as communities and as a state.”
Reflecting his strong position on the place of Israel for Jews, he declared, ” Israel is not a state of the
Israelis. It is a state of the Jewish people.”
His military career was highlighted with his receiving the Medal of Distinguished Service during the Yom Kippur War, when he and his sergeant stopped Syrian tanks in the Golan Heights and later rescued wounded comrades.
He retired from active service in the IDF in 2001 and the following year started his political career as chairman of the National Religious Party, which ran in the last general elections with the National Union party.
MK Eitam bitterly opposed the expulsion of Jews in Gush Katif, where he moved with his family to reinforce the will of the Jewish communities there.
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