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Israelis consider attack on Iran

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 11 March 2006
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Publication date 11 March 2006

Amos Dror, the former head of research in Israeli military intelligence, recently made the following statement to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Lateline programme: "If Israel will be hit by any missile, the Iranians will not have enough people to count their dead. It will lead to the destruction and the end of Iran and as a civilisation."

In plain English, he was saying that, if Israel is hit even by a single conventional Iranian missile, Israel will retaliate with a massive attack which will a) leave few Iranians alive and b) destroy, not just the state of Iran, but also the ancient Persian civilization. As only nuclear weapons have the capacity for destruction that he was speaking of, he was advocating a kind of nuclear/cultural holocaust for Iran. It is true that he was speaking, not as an accredited representative of the Israeli government, but as a senior member of Israel’s close-knit military/intelligence establishment. Dror’s apocalyptic statement is evidence of just how close the Middle East is to a nuclear conflagration whose political, military and economic consequences will be felt throughout the world. Surely the time is ripe for our government, which has in the past gone into battle for disarmament, to enlist the support of other like-minded governments for a major international initiative to avert nuclear war in the Middle East? Why are we sitting on our hands, while this deadly game of nuclear ping-pong is played out beneath our noses?

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT Broadcast: 09/03/2006

Reporter: Matt Brown

TONY JONES: As the diplomatic brinkmanship between Iran and the United States continues, there is mounting concern in Israel about Iran’s continued calls for it to be "wiped off the map". Senior Israeli intelligence analysts within and outside the government are weighing the need for a military attack, preferably conducted by others, to bring Iran to heel. Middle East correspondent Matt Brown reports from Jerusalem.

MATT BROWN: Inside this Iranian nuclear enrichment plant, the engineers are involved in a dangerous game of brinkmanship. Iran is developing the technology that will certainly deliver nuclear energy and possibly also a nuclear bomb. Much of the world is warning Iran that this work must stop, but it’s not clear what the ultimate sanction would be.

JOHN BOLTON, US AMBASSADOR TO THE UN: The Iranian regime must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences.

MATT BROWN: Tehran has already proved it’s willing to gamble. Iran has a history of building research facilities in secret and underground. And, 1,500 kilometres away, Major General Giora Eiland, the National Security Advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister, is weighing the options.

GIORA EILAND, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF: It is obvious that if Iran has nuclear weapons, then every other conflict in the Middle East, whether Israel is involved or is not involved, will take place under Iranian nuclear umbrella. The implications are much more than severe.

MATT BROWN: Most Israelis know they live here within range of the best Iranian missiles. They have their own formidable nuclear arsenal, but most believe they can’t afford to accept the existence of even one Iranian nuclear weapon. Officially, Israel still puts in faith in diplomacy and sanctions and, to some extent, in the people of Iran.

GIORA EILAND: Most of the people in Iran do want to be part of the international community. They don’t want to be isolated.

MATT BROWN: But in 1981, Israel successfully brought Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program crashing to the ground with a strike on his nuclear reactor. If diplomacy fails, the former head of research in Israeli military intelligence, Ami Dror, says the same fate must now befall Iran.

AMI DROR, FORMER MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER: I think that the alternative of nuclear Iran is so dangerous to the world that nothing could be more dangerous than that.

MATT BROWN: Some Israeli analysts even believe that, rather than inflaming the Middle East, a successful military strike could give Israel’s other enemies pause for thought.

AMI DROR: The Iranians will lose part of their influence in some of these organisations and countries and I think that that, for itself, is very important.

MATT BROWN: In Iran, the newspapers have been full of defiance, arguing Iran’s right to enrich uranium for the peaceful purposes it’s declared. Mohammad Mahmoudi, a school teacher in Tehran, says, "Nuclear energy is an absolute right and the Westerners want to make us reliant on them". But if Iran ever does build an atom bomb, some believe Israel will have to respond with the kind of threat only a nuclear arms state could deliver.

AMI DROR: The Iranians understand that if Israel will be hit by any missile, the Iranians will not have enough people to count their dead. It will lead to the destruction and the end of Iran and as a civilisation.

MATT BROWN: Clearly if the diplomats fail to stop the research underway in Iran, a new series of grave dilemmas will unfold.

Matt Brown, Lateline.
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Forum posts

  • Radical christian government members in USA,Israel, Britain want to control the world and its resources with nuclear fear.The beating of war drums and the abundance of lies is resonating around the world to keep the masses afraid. The radicals whom currently possess nuclear weapons are threatening to use them against soveriegn nations who do not... what a time we live in when supposed intelligent governments are acting like greedy bullies... and trying their best to bullshit the world with their lies and disinformation.

    • It may very well be that we in the west should perhaps outlaw the muslim religion altogether if they can’t get rid of the fundamentalist that are spreading hatred and murder around the world against anything not to there islamic beliefs. And when muslim leaders call for the assasination of people in the west they say have insulted there religion then perhaps we should do like wise to whoever has called for such a murder to take place. In the very least we should make sure Iran is unable to threaten anyone. After all, is’nt that the reason the U.S.A got rid of Saddam.....

    • NOT christians but ZIONISTS are the puppetmasters
      ..All the little puppets dancing to the tune of their Zionist handlers,wait til they find out their handlers are in a "use em’ and loose em’" mode, as always.....should be sickenly interesting.Do we get to taste a nuke war or the granddaddy of all economic crashes??....Do the Rothschilds print more fake ass $$$$$$$$$ and postpone the $$$$$crash? Do the Zionist owned and controlled media get the call for a "flipflop" and do a show and tell on the Bushistas or keep playing the "good cop/bad cop" fake ass array of aledged slants,NONE IF WHICH IS PROGRESSIVE.Speaking of phony "slants",You gotta love "Air America" with the likes of tribal Zionist ALLLLLL Franken and his fake ass "progressive" pundits.Funny, you NEVER hear about ALL of the tribal Zionist ceo’s and Washington political advisors and think tankers and policy advisorsand legal consultants.. all draped around the Bushistas,whispering "sweet nuthins’" in there immoral,stupid little ears....Ahh,But I digress,This should be aVERY,VERY, interesting month,this March of IDES!!

    • All,All,All of the MASS MEDIA Ceo’s are ,dare I use the "J"word -or the less "Tabooed" "Z" word???? I’ll play it safe....tribal ZIONISTS..they are NOT christians!!,THEY CONTROL THE FRICKIN" MEDIA THAT YOU GET YOUR ENTIRE EXPOSURE TO THE WORLD FROM!!!... For God’s sake (and i don’t mean yahweh of the Jews).this is NOT,NOT,NOT my opinion but a VERIBLE fact!!!!
      ....Google: "who runs the media" & for more fun "who runs the porno industry"and READ and RESEARCH and VERIFY and then GET PISSEDOFF!!We are NOT talking about a few here and there,We are talking a virtual 98%-100% TOTAL CONTROL!!("OHHH,how could that be,this is America??")
      ............. the greedy weak gullible powerful christian Goyim"(look it up ) are being "played" AGAIN!! I will give you this,MABEY the Jesuits are involved, and if they are ,we need to look into when they were infiltrated by the ZIONIST influence..could be early on.. I DO know that tribal Zionist Adam Weishaupt(who founded the bavarian illuminati) was formerly a jesuit!!!.
      ........We need a DNA test to "ferret out" the evilones.......and you know who you are.................
      celticcanine

    • Freedom of religion is a god given right, and history shows all religions can be abused by fanatics. Christianity itself has an awful bloody past as well condoning abuses equal to any committed by those who claim the are Muslim. The problem IMO is that like the Muslim religion Christianity has been invaded by fakes Like Pat Robertson who call for murder of those they disagree with and stear the flock into the arms of The AntiChrist System of violence and death.

      If people want peace and prosperity they must reject the warmongering of ALL of the fanatics. Let’s remember though more harm has probably been done by the Wildy fantical NeoCON cult of violence and blood who pushed to invade Iraq under false pretenses so as to steal its oil and set up permanent bases. Most people I think now realize the word terrorist is simply being applied to average Iraqi citizens who have lost innocent loved ones (reported to be in the TENS OF THOUSANDS) and those who simply want the invaders to go home and leave them alone.

    • .............."After all, is’nt that the reason the U.S.A got rid of Saddam....".

      YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!

  • Channel one TV in LA submit a proposal to US Secretary . please pay attention to this brilan proposal . We do not need to bom iran and kiall 70 millions inocents.