It?s Crunch Time for Israel on Iran

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frostedflakes

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Originally posted by: Lemon law
While Iran does has a nuclear program, its stated purpose is the peacetime use for electrical power generation.

There is zero proof the Iran wants nuclear weapons and the go or no go point for Iranian nukes is still years into the future.

Because Iran has approval from the IAEA, their program is and remains UN approved.

And unlike Syria or Iraq, Iran has many deeply buried nuclear facilities, making any Israeli attack very difficult if not impossible unless Israel is willing to use nukes.

But if Israel attacks anyway, the US and Obama will have no choice but to cut off all foreign aid to Israel, while Israel would face an international trade embargo that would collapse its own economy.
Yeah, my understanding is that there is no evidence Iran is currently developing nuclear weapons. They are developing peaceful nuclear energy in compliance with the NPT, so I don't really understand what the big deal is. :confused:

They've had a nuclear weapons program in the past so I can understand people being skeptical, but my understanding is that in recent years they have been pretty cooperative with IAEA inspectors and there's nothing to suggest that they are currently pursuing nuclear weapons.
 

Lemon law

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Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: PJABBER
Originally posted by: Lemon law
To JEDIYoda,
Yada yada yada.

FUD.

Yeah, Lemon Law detests anything that could show Israel in a positive light.
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I would really really like something to show Israel in a positive light, and truth be told there is a a political minority in Israel willing to be real, but Netanyuhu is taking Israel off the same deep end dead end course.

At the same time, its easy to be critical with past Arab unreality, but not so easy now.

At present anti Israeli terrorists drive part of the agenda, as long as Israel does nothing to defuse the collective Arab grievances, 61 of 61 years prove that Israel will never know any peace. The more Israel tries to repress terrorism, the more terrorism they get. And as technology starts to favor terrorists more than Israel, sooner than later, Israel is going to be facing chemical and biological weapons from terrorists that will cause massive Israeli civilian causalities.

Time is running out and I fear the consequences of that coming train wreck. I do not want the terrorists to win as Israel in turn causes massive Arab Causalities.

As a chess player I see that coming end game, and unless Israel gets real, that is where its heading, regardless of what I say or whatever various pro Israeli fan boys and girl think. Even if its delayed, Israeli unreality can't last.
 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
You can call it all you want but the truth is clearly visible. Israel is not a problem. Iran is.

They were such bullies...right. They were such bullies that nobody else cared they had nukes. It wasn't until Iran started talking about their nuclear program that everyone else had to have one, too. Nobody cares if Israel has them, because they know they're moderate, not crazy Islamic nutjobs (Iran).
While you obviously would like to pretend otherwise, here is a brief history of others concern with Israel's nukes, for those who prefer reality. And sure, Iran is run by Muslim clerics, but it is Israel's Prime Minster and his stenographers invoking the Biblical boogieman of "Alamek" in their rhetoric against Iran.

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Google this guy, he's been wanking to the idea of Israel attacking Iran for literally years now. He's a broken record. Not to say Israel won't eventually attack Iran, as a broken clock is right sometimes, too, but this guy is a huge war hawk.
That isn't even the half of it. He was one of the big players in luring us into invading Iraq, and was trying to goad us into confrontations with Cuba and Syria too.

Right, they really haven't.

Siting wikipedia for intensely political histories? Puh-lease. Other source looks pretty biased too.
Is there anything in the sources I cited you can actually dispute, or are you just attempting to back your completely unreferenced claims with nothing but hollow dismissals?