Israeli leaders meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in NYC

[Steven Gaal]

Israeli leaders meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in NYC

[Len Colby]

The men are members of a small ultra-Othodox faction they oppose Israel for theological reasons, because the messiah has not appeared yet, not for philosophical ones. None are Israeli officials, many/most aren't even Israeli. They only represent a minute faction of Israelis (about 0.1%). This isn't even news it's from 2007.

[Steven Gaal]

I POSTED TO EDUCATE NOT GIVE NEWS REPORT

oppose Israel for theological reasons // END COLBY You should educate more with your posts. THEY OPPOSE THE STATE OF ISRAEL because they believe ( Biblical interpretation) it shouldnt be formed/exist until the Messiah comes.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that there should be a Palestinian State with Palestinian right of return. So several million

Plaestinians would return. Jewish people would become a minority but live in peace together .One country Palestine. Israel as we know it would cease to exist, it would not necessitate any Jewish death.

Edited September 29, 2012 by Steven Gaal

[Len Colby]

How exactly does mis/disonformation 'educate' people?

[Steven Gaal]

How exactly does mis/disonformation 'educate' people? // END COLBY

Disinformation ?? Ive heard of that. Thats when Netanyahu opens his mouth ???

When Americans consider Benjamin Netanyahu’s current plea to attack Iran, they must not forget the eerily similar lies and purposefully deceptive intelligence that Netanyahu and his government gave to American officials about Saddam Hussein’s mythical “Weapons of Mass Destruction”.

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Iran And The Bomb, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Facts

by Christian Stork, September 28, 2012

http://original.anti...love-the-facts/

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As our Nobel laureate President ascended to the podium on September 25 at the United Nations for his last international speech before the election, we again were the recipients of fine oratory and rhetorical flourish about America’s problems in the world. Focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa—what’s often misleadingly termed, “the Muslim world”—Obama singled out Iran’s treaty-entitled uranium enrichment activities, saying “make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained.”

Obama’s remarks were dutifully transcribed by our stenographer class, as can be expected, despite intelligence-community conclusions to the contrary and the historical precedent of containment as Cold War policy. This follows the latest media scare concerning Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and the recent tiff between the U.S. and Israel over it. Like Obama’s speech (and because of similarly unchallenged statements by politicians), many media reports are awash in misleading narratives, incomplete histories, and outright fiction about Iran and its nuclear program.

Given how easily the American public and media were manipulated into believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, this moment should give us some pause. The disastrous effects of that $3 Trillion Dollar War are still being felt across the world. For those not interested in seeing a much-bloodier, costlier sequel, I offer this introductory course in intellectual self-defense. The only way to rebuff and dismantle propaganda is to be aware of the truth on which it claims to comment.

Lesson #1: Iran is not building nuclear weapons

National Intelligence Estimate: “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.” (2007 National Intelligence Estimate Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities; November 2007)

“Several senior Israeli officials who spoke in recent days to The Associated Press said Israel has come around to the U.S. view that no final decision to build a bomb has been made by Iran.” (Associated Press, “Israel shifts views on Iran”; March 18, 2012)

The 2011 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a synthesized compilation of data evaluated by America’s 17 intelligence agencies, declared that there were no serious revisions to the controversial (for war hawks) 2007 NIE—which stated Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. While the 2011 estimate did include updated progress on Iran’s civilian nuclear program, such as an increased number of operative centrifuges, it still could not muster any evidence to indicate the program was being weaponized.

These findings echo reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has also concluded that Iran is not building nuclear weapons. The IAEA accounts are typically pored over for the slightest hint of ambiguity or malevolence, which are then promulgated as the most important takeaways in Western news summaries.

A recent example of such deliberate obfuscation was the IAEA report on Iran from August 30, 2012. Typical American media accounts highlighted the increase in Iran’s nuclear infrastructure (underground centrifuge production, etc.), while failing to mention that their stockpile of 20%-enriched uranium—the only material capable of being enriched further to 85% or weapons grade—had actually diminished as a result of conversion to fuel plates for use in the Tehran Research Reactor, which produces medical isotopes. Thus nuclear development is highlighted, under the false premise that that equals progress toward a weapon, while exculpatory evidence is discarded: a case study in how news and propaganda function.

A civilian nuclear program is not easily converted into a weapons program. Before a country can begin the latter, it must break the IAEA monitoring seals on its uranium stockpile, which is also under constant camera detection. It must also kick out international inspectors, who currently have unfettered access to all of Iran’s nuclear sites. Completing those very public steps would be the first true warning indicators that Iran was building nuclear weapons.

As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran is entitled to enrich uranium to low levels for domestic power consumption and medical treatment, such as radiation therapy for cancer patients.

Lesson #2: Iran is not a threat to the US

The United States military is the largest, most sophisticated machine of force and violence the world has ever seen. After factoring in foreign military aid and nuclear weapons maintenance, the U.S. spends over an estimated $1 trillion (that’s >$1,000 billion) on defense annually.

By contrast, Iran spends somewhere between $10-12 billion on defense annually, after factoring in foreign and domestic paramilitary units such as the Revolutionary Guards and Basij—Iran’s domestic volunteer militia. This is “less than the United Arab Emirates, and only between 25% to 33% of Saudi defense spending,” notes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It spends approximately 1/5 of the amount allocated by the six sheikdoms of the Gulf Cooperation Council—America’s staunchest regional allies (save for Israel) and the guardians of Western access to crude.

Lesson #3: Iran is not an existential threat to Israel

Ehud Barak, Israeli Defense Minister: “Iran does not constitute an existential threat against Israel.” (Reuters, Report: Barak says Iran is not existential threat to Israel; September 17, 2009)

Dan Halutz, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Commander of the Israeli Air Force: “Iran poses a serious threat, but not an existential one. The use of this terminology is misleading. If it is intended to encourage a strike on Iran, it’s a mistake. Force should be exerted only as a last resort.” (YNet, Former IDF Chief: Iran doesn’t pose an existential threat; February 2, 2012)

Tamir Pardo, Director of the Mossad: “Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely. But if one said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an existential threat, that would mean that we would have to close up shop and go home. That’s not the situation. The term existential threat is used too freely.” (Haaretz, Mossad Chief: Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel; December 29, 2011)

Israel maintains a competitive advantage in total amount spent on munitions and assets, as well as a massive edge in terms of technological sophistication. Israel spends almost twice as much as Iran on defense appropriations and is able to buy the world’s most advanced weaponry from the United States (mostly with U.S. taxpayer money, laundered through foreign aid). Iran, by contrast, is heavily dependent on the dated munitions it received under the Shah and acquires rudimentary missile technology from China and North Korea with its own money.

Even if Iran were pursuing nuclear weapons, Israel’s own stockpile—estimated at a several hundred high-yield warheads—ensures that Tehran would not engage in a first-strike. Those familiar with the Cold War doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) know that when confronted with the possibility of your own annihilation, so the theory goes, you’re incentivized to refrain from launching a first strike. Israel’s stationing of nukes on German-made Dolphin class submarines in the Mediterranean assures that even if a first strike were to be carried out on the Jewish state, the perpetrator would still be subject to a retaliatory strike.

However, much as America acts as Israel’s patron, so too Iran spends a good deal arming and supporting proxy armies in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip—Hezbollah and Hamas, respectively. While these forces present a serious challenge to Israeli military incursions into said areas, their ability to project force within Israel’s borders is limited to indiscriminate rocket fire. While dangerous and psychologically terrifying for civilians, such tactics cannot be considered more than a nuisance when comparing capacities for state violence.

Israel is not a signatory to the NPT and repeatedly refuses propositions for a Middle East Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone (MENWFZ) to be established as a means of ending the stand-off with Tehran, despite majority support from the Israeli public.

Lesson #4: Iran’s leadership is not fanatical or suicidal

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “We are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor.” (Global Public Square, Martin Dempsey on Syria, Iran and China; February 17, 2012)

Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz: “I think the Iranian leadership is composed of very rational people.” (CS Monitor, Israeli Army Chief says he doubts Iran will build a nuclear weapon; April 25, 2012)

Intellectual orthodoxy holds that even the most tepid criticism of Israeli and American policy vis-à-vis Iran requires a disclaimer by all “serious people” that Iran is a vicious theocratic regime which oppresses its own people. While Iran’s governmental structure is religiously based and peaceful protests have been met with repression, such traits are hardly unique. Saudi Arabia, America’s most solid regional ally, enforces religious doctrine as viciously if not more so than Iran does (such as executing many for practicing freedom of speech and religion as “witches” or “blasphemers”). And, of course, violent government responses to non-violent demonstrations aimed at political change are hardly unknown in free societies (see: Occupy Wall Street).

Moreover, there’s little correlation between the internal repression of a society and its external behavior. The United States, one of the freer societies on the planet, routinely engages in aggression and the use of brute force to accomplish geopolitical objectives. Conversely, Iran pummels domestic dissent while historically limiting its military involvement outside its borders. The only record of Iranian aggression since the 18th century was when the U.S.-backed Shah invaded and conquered a series of Arab islands in the early 1970’s.

Despite contentions from the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran’s leadership is capable of pulling the temple down on their heads in a show of Samsonian martyrdom, Tehran’s track record and statements indicate otherwise. The more judicious pundits at least acknowledge as much.

Lesson #5: Politicians and media stenographers have been claiming Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons since the mid-1980’s

House Republican Research Committee in 1992: “98 percent certainty that Iran already had all (or virtually all) of the components required for two or three operational nuclear weapons.” (Christian Science Monitor, Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979; November 8, 2011)

Iran began its nuclear program with help from the United States during the 1950’s when it was run by Washington’s puppet-dictator Shah Reza Pahlavi, who was installed after the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government in a 1953 CIA coup known as Operation Ajax. Following the 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini condemned all nuclear and chemical weapons as “un-Islamic,” stopping the nascent nuclear program in its tracks. Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei reiterated his predecessor’s religious edict some 20 years later.

The 1980’s saw complex American-Iranian and Israeli-Iranian relations, whereby discreet deals were made among the antagonistic powers in an effort to accomplish other foreign policy goals. Yet by the early 1990’s Iran’s growing military prowess and the near-destruction of the major Arab military presence to Israel’s east (Iraq) put Iran back on Tel Aviv’s agenda as a strategic competitor. In 1992, then-member of parliament Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset that Iran was 3 to 5 years from having a nuclear weapon—and that the threat had to be “uprooted by an international front headed by the U.S.” Sound familiar?

American policymakers began to echo Israeli claims during the 1990’s, largely in public and without evidence to back them up. These assertions continued in a steady drumbeat of increasingly hostile rhetoric (“The Axis of Evil”) all the way until 2007, when a declassified NIE was released disputing the fact that Iran continued its weapons program in any way beyond 2003. Despite the conclusions, as mentioned in lesson #1, hawks on the left and right continue to peddle demonstrably false claims to this very day.

Lesson #6: The American and Israeli security establishments are against it

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We’re watching very carefully about what [iran] do[es], because it’s always been more about their actions than their words…We’re not setting red lines.” (Haaretz, Clinton rejects Netanyahu’s call for ‘red lines’ over Iran nuclear program; September 10, 2012)

Former Internal Security Chief Yuval Diskin: “…attacking Iran will encourage them to develop a bomb all the faster.” (Think Progress, Diskin says he has ‘no faith’ in current leadership, April 27, 2012)

Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan: a future Israeli Air Force strike on Iranian nuclear facilities is “the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” (Haaretz, Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran ‘stupidest thing I have ever heard’, May 7, 2011)

Although the idea of nuclear weapons in the hands of an avowedly hostile regime is as upsetting to Washington as it is to Tel Aviv, the Pentagon brass is opposed to an attack, not because they suddenly favor the regime in Tehran, but because their own strike simulations predict a great deal of injurious blowback in exchange for, at most, a brief setback in Iran’s nuclear capability.

And despite war hysteria in Israel, fanned by political rhetoric, and legitimate conventional security concerns for the Jewish state, Israeli security and military officials recognize that they don’t have anywhere near the overwhelming force required to take care of the problem. The only way to ensure that Iran doesn’t develop a nuclear weapons capability would be to install a friendly puppet regime in Tehran, a task far beyond the capability of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or the U.S. military at this point.

In lieu of direct military conflict, the U.S. and Israel have adopted a harsh policy of economic sanctions, cyberwarfare, and covert operations—declarations of war, by American standards—in an effort to delay Iran’s nuclear progress. But the consensus among knowledgeable players is that any resort to force will have far worse repercussions than benefits.

Lesson #7: The American and Israeli people are against it

Poll: 7 out of 10 Americans choose diplomacy over military force to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions (Christian Science Monitor, To strike Iran’s nuclear facilities or not to strike? Why polls differ; March 14, 2012)

Poll: 58% of Israelis oppose a unilateral strike on Iran (Haaretz, Haaretz poll: Most of the public opposes an Israeli strike on Iran; March 8, 2012)

Poll: Only 27% of Jewish Israelis in favor of a unilateral strike on Iran (Haaretz, Poll: Most Israelis oppose attack on Iran nuclear facilities; August 16, 2012)

While public opinion is as malleable as Play-Doh, surveys show that the American and Israeli citizenries are very skeptical about war with Iran. The former, still reeling from the unpleasant effects of two costly occupations (one ongoing), are overwhelmingly opposed to another war in the Middle East. Likewise, although a majority of Israelis view Iran’s nuclear program as more immediately dangerous than their American counterparts do, polling indicates they are opposed to a unilateral strike initiated without American support. This makes sense, given the IDF’s military inadequacy for the task at hand, and Israel’s proximity to retaliatory proxy forces in southern Lebanon and Gaza.

It is true that survey responses vary depending on how the question is asked. When confronted with the baseless assertion that Iran is building nuclear weapons, many respondents aver that military action is worth it. But when given the correct facts, both populations conclude that the downsides of military force aren’t worth the payoff. This aligns with the thoughts of most policymakers within the establishment.

Lesson #8: An Iranian nuclear weapon will be all-but-assured if the U.S. or Israel attack

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden on war deliberations within the Bush administration: “the consensus was that [a brief bombing campaign] would guarantee that which we are trying to prevent: an Iran that will spare nothing to build a nuclear weapon and that would build it in secret.” (The Hill, Don’t let Iran be a second Iraq; February 27, 2012)

With so much evidence solidly against their position, U.S. and Israeli hawks have become increasingly strident in their appeal to violence as a means of ending the Iranian “nuclear threat.” Many proponents of a strike have cited the Israeli Air Force raid on Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 as a precedent that could be emulated. While comparisons between the two situations are tenuous at best, what’s of higher import is the fact that U.S. intelligence concluded that the 1981 attack didn’t stop Saddam’s nuclear weapons program—it accelerated it. (It was actually the consequences of Saddam’s 1991 invasion of Kuwait that brought Iraq’s bomb program to a halt.)

A former intern for Democracy Now! and correspondent for the radio program Political Seance 101 on WRHU 88.7 FM, Christian Stork is a news junkie and commentator specializing in foreign affairs and civil liberties. He now contributes to WhoWhatWhy.com and keeps the blog American Samizdat.

This article originally appeared at WhoWhatWhy.com

Edited September 29, 2012 by Steven Gaal

[Len Colby]

How exactly does mis/disonformation 'educate' people? // END COLBY

Disinformation ?? Ive heard of that. Thats when Netanyahu opens his mouth ???

Remember what I said about changing the subject Steven? Let's avoid doing so. I'm no fan of Netanyahu or his threats and push for war but there already are 2 or 3 threads about Iran's supposed pursuit of nuclear weapons and the threat of an Israeli (or even American) attack. You started this threat with false claims, when called on this you said you'd done this "to educate"; you owe the forum a less amorphous and more honest explanation.

Edited September 30, 2012 by Len Colby

[Steven Gaal]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets along with this small Jewish sect and gets along with his small Jewish minority in Iran. There is

another thread (with video) about the Jewish community in Iran

I posted. Ahmadinejad would get along with a minority Jewish population in Palestine after 4-5 million Palestinians come back to what they think is their home. Now 258 years since Iran invaded anyone. Can USA say the same ??? ............................

.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would love to swing a deal with the West, 5-8 % enrichment monitored by a neutral party. The West wants a quisling government in Iran ,just like it wants one in Russia.The West doenst want a deal of any sort: quisling government or death

LESSON # 2

: Iran is not a threat to the US

The United States military is the largest, most sophisticated machine of force and violence the world has ever seen. After factoring in foreign military aid and nuclear weapons maintenance, the U.S. spends over an estimated $1 trillion (that’s >$1,000 billion) on defense annually.

By contrast, Iran spends somewhere between $10-12 billion on defense annually, after factoring in foreign and domestic paramilitary units such as the Revolutionary Guards and Basij—Iran’s domestic volunteer militia. This is “less than the United Arab Emirates, and only between 25% to 33% of Saudi defense spending,” notes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It spends approximately 1/5 of the amount allocated by the six sheikdoms of the Gulf Cooperation Council—America’s staunchest regional allies (save for Israel) and the guardians of Western access to crude.

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Ahmadinejad Speaks to the American People

10/1/12 posted

http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/ahmadinejad-speaks-to-the-american-people/22534/

When Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the UN Assembly last week, it was apparent that he was talking to the insurgents posing as our government and the Israeli-American 5th column that is leading the insurgency. Though Netanyahu referenced we the American people, he did so pointedly speaking to our so called representatives.

Congress has a 9% approval rate and despite the propaganda to the contrary, this rating applies to the insurgent government on every level from the bottom to the top. Via the Democratic and Republican Conventions, it has been shown beyond a doubt that we the people of the US are disenfranchised, dispossessed, and are civilly dead.

The foreign insurgents occupying the seats reserved for our representatives do not represent we the people and Netanyahu knows this is true. He also knows that via the internet there has been a great awakening to the reality of Zionism and the threat it represents to every human entity on this planet that would desire a life free of slavery.

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his addresses to the UN and especially in a CNN interview Sunday on Fareed Zakaria GPS, spoke directly to we the American people. This is something the two charlatan insurgents that have been presented as presidential candidates cannot say they have even attempted. In fact they have spoken only to the minute minority of adherence to the special interests they represent.

Fareed Zakaria, in his interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attempted to interject the false Zionist propaganda declaration as to who the Iranian people are and what their intent is. He then went on to answer his own assertions, presenting himself as a voice for we the people. This is when Ahmadinejad shut him down.

In response to Zakaria’s assertion that Jews are recognized as an ancient people of the land within the Koran and that Arab rejection of their right to return is unfounded by their religion, Ahmadinejad answered the question with a question. He asked, “Are you saying there is no difference between the Jews and the Zionist regime and the fact that the Zionists do not have the ancient claim of being upon the land as the Jewish people do?”

Ahmadinejad went on by stating that Iran belongs to the Iranians: Jews, Christians, Muslims, whatever religion. He stated, “Zionism is an aggressive school of thought that has nothing to do with the Jewish people.”

Zakaria then went on to act as some kind of presumed representative of we the people in stating that we were very nervous in reference to the Iranian development of nuclear technology.

Ahmadinejad then mockingly stated, “So you are saying the American people and other peoples around the world are scared and shaking in their boots?” He told Zakaria that as a reporter he should know that Iran and Ahmadinejad are loved by the other peoples around the world and that the Iranians return that love in kind.

Zakaria then tried to assert that we the people believe the Iranians want to wipe the Israelis off the map via an act of genocidal suicide. This is when Ahmadinejad confronted Zakaria directly saying, “You pretend to speak on behalf of the American people? It raised doubt and stirs doubt in whom? The people have given you their vote of confidence to represent their all encompassing view? You are representing a media outlet and representing its views.”

Ahmadinejad then challenged Zakaria to go out into the streets of New York and ask the people what they think, tonight, right now.

Zakaria was visibly shaken and went straight to an attempt to redirect the conversation and changed the subject matter to the sanctions against Iran with an angry look on his face.

The cat is out of the bag. The Iranians and other peoples around the world now understand that we the people of the United States are overwhelmingly adverse to the actions the insurgents within our government are taking against other countries and other peoples in support of the international Zionist cabal. The Zionists are running scared and know it is the internet that has led to this mass exposure of their evil intent.

Expect to see further clampdowns in the form of internet censorship. Of course these clampdowns will only serve to steal the resolve of we the people, as they represent an affirmation of everything we have been saying.

I see desperation in the eyes of the Zionists and they may very well do something very stupid in an attempt to save themselves from the justice they so richly deserve.

May God grant us the insight we need to outmaneuver the Zionists and avoid World War III.

Edited October 1, 2012 by Steven Gaal

[Len Colby]

Address the false information in your title and OP, then we can deal with the rest. Did you know it was false when you posted it? If so why did you try and pull a fast one? If not why not admit error?

[Steven Gaal]

_{My interpretation of the Book of Revelation has similarites to their idea about the nation of Israel. They represent between 800-1200 by my estimates (combining two sects who advocate said Idea Messiah/Israel).}

_{BUT I HAVE A DIFFERENT WORLD VIEW THAN YOU.}

One on God’s side is a majority. That’s why John Knox’s words, inscribed on the Reformation monument in Geneva, say, “A man with God is always in the majority.” To me they are leaders because they have the right idea. One on God’s side is a majority.

[Len Colby]

Your desperation is showing. You can post all the religious drivel you want, it won't mask, let alone change, the fact you posted false information.

[Steven Gaal]

PEOPLE WHO SPEAK TRUTH ARE LEADERS.......desperation is for any who disagree with this truism.

LEN =MSM supporter

Russia Today exposes CNN

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=67d_1349230061

[Len Colby]

PEOPLE WHO SPEAK TRUTH ARE LEADERS.......desperation is for any who disagree with this truism.

LEN =MSM supporter

Russia Today exposes CNN

http://www.liveleak....=67d_1349230061

PEOPLE WHO SPEAK TRUTH ARE LEADERS.......desperation is for any who disagree with this truism.

Not if only a minute minority follow their leadership, on the other hand people who spout lies but have many followers and/or have positions of power are leaders. Hitler was the German leader and Manson was the leader of his family but someone who represents far less than 0.1% of a group is not one of its leaders no matter how correct there views are. According to Jewish Virtual Library they have “some 5,000” members in Israel which come out to about one in 1200 of that country's Jews

In any case the guys who met the Iranian president were not Israelis.

LEN =MSM supporter

Russia Today exposes CNN

http://www.liveleak....=67d_1349230061

When you have to stoop to personal attacks and irrelevancies it's time to give up.

[Steven Gaal]

LEN COLBY =MSM supporter This equation is not desperation or an irrelevancy ,but a truism supported by years and thousands of posts by said LEN COLBY.

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. AUG 16 HAARETZ

Poll: Most Israelis oppose attack on Iran nuclear facilities

Survery conducted by Israel Democracy Institute and TAU Mediation and Conflict Resolution program finds only 27% of Jewish Israeli support strike, and most think it's unlikely Israel will soon attack.

A majority of Jewish Israelis oppose an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities without U.S. cooperation, and think it is unlikely Israel will soon launch a unilateral strike against the Islamic Republic, a poll released Thursday has found.

Some 61 per cent of those questioned oppose an Israeli strike, compared to 27 per cent in favor, the poll by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University's Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution found.

In addition, 56 per cent think the chances are low that Israel would launch such a strike unilaterally, compared to 33 per cent who assume Israel will go ahead anyway.

The poll, conducted last week, interviewed 516 respondents and had a 4.5 per cent margin of error.

Speculation, fueled by a flurry of reports and analysis in Israeli media, has snowballed in recent days that a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran is only a matter of months, or even weeks.

Israel sees a nuclear-armed Iran as an existential threat, pointing to repeated statements by Iranian leaders that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.

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FOR THOSE WHO WANT BACKGROUND ON ISSUE

http://en.wikipedia....i/Neturei_Karta

Edited October 4, 2012 by Steven Gaal

[Len Colby]

Another failed attempt to change the subject, irrelevant to question of whether or not you claim the NY based NK rabbis were “Israeli leaders” which they clearly weren't.

[Steven Gaal]

_{READER PLEASE UNDERSTAND ITS HARD TO FIGURE IF COLBY IS DENSE OR PURPOSEFULLY DENSE>}

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_{AFTER READING THE ABOVE HAARETZ ARTICLE A NON-DENSE PERSON WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT SOME ISRAEL LEADERS WOULD MEET} Ahmadinejad.

Edited October 5, 2012 by Steven Gaal