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Netanyahu Sought to Provoke Iran War, Drag in US, in 2010
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John Glaser, November 08, 2012 .
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In 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed to provoke Iran
into a war with Israel that would eventually drag in the United States.
Yossi Melman at Al-Monitor: .
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The truth is that Netanyahu and Barak did not order the military to plan
a direct, all-out attack on Iran. Their true intention was to trigger
a chain of events which would create tension and provoke Iran,
and eventually could have led to a war that might drag in the United
States.
Laura Rosen acknowledges recent reporting that 'Netanyahu was not
planning to launch an all-out attack on Iran in 2010,' but rather to
provoke Iran into striking first.
.
Think about the context of this. Netanyahu and Barak so desperately
craved war that they sought to harass and threaten Iran in order to
appear a credible and imminent enough threat that Iran would strike
preemptively, despite being a much weaker power. And the US "Israel?s
one major ally, their primary source of economic and military aid, the
only reason the international community hasn't forced them to stop
committing crimes against the Palestinians" was to get dragged into this
long and discretionary war.
.
American taxpayers are giving up $3 billion dollars a year, plus a
poisoned political system where submissive deference to Israel is all
but mandatory, to a country that literally planned to get thousands of
our soldiers killed, hundreds of billions of our dollars wasted, and to
destabilize the entire Middle East.
Melman continues:
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One such scary scenario was the possibility that Iranian intelligence
could have noticed the Israeli military preparations and decided to
stage a pre-emptive strike against Israel or US targets in the region.
Israel, in such a situation, would have claimed that it was a victim of
Iranian aggression and retaliated. America, too, could have found itself
caught up in an unpredictable circle of violence.
.
Sources who were privy to the secret deliberations told me that
Ashkenazi and Dagan eventually managed to convince the security cabinet
and then the full cabinet, which are the only authorized bodies to
decide on war and other vital issues, that Netanyahu and Barak were
playing with fire and may not only ignite a regional war in the Middle
East, but also ruin decades of close, intimate strategic cooperation
with the US.
.
Imagine the outrage, the indignation, if it were publicly revealed that
the leadership in any other country in the world did this to
the United States. Can you even imagine any plausible scenario where aid
and support would continue?
.
By the way, we've seen this kind of thinking before right here in the
United States. In September, Patrick Clawson of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy caught a lot of attention when he
suggested the United States should provoke Iran into starting a war.
These examples should illustrate just how (un)necessary a war with Iran
is, given that Iran seemingly refuses to be the one to start it.
http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/08/netanyahu-sought-to-provoke-iran-war-drag-in-us-in-2010/
.
John Glaser, November 08, 2012 .
.
In 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed to provoke Iran
into a war with Israel that would eventually drag in the United States.
Yossi Melman at Al-Monitor: .
.
The truth is that Netanyahu and Barak did not order the military to plan
a direct, all-out attack on Iran. Their true intention was to trigger
a chain of events which would create tension and provoke Iran,
and eventually could have led to a war that might drag in the United
States.
Laura Rosen acknowledges recent reporting that 'Netanyahu was not
planning to launch an all-out attack on Iran in 2010,' but rather to
provoke Iran into striking first.
.
Think about the context of this. Netanyahu and Barak so desperately
craved war that they sought to harass and threaten Iran in order to
appear a credible and imminent enough threat that Iran would strike
preemptively, despite being a much weaker power. And the US "Israel?s
one major ally, their primary source of economic and military aid, the
only reason the international community hasn't forced them to stop
committing crimes against the Palestinians" was to get dragged into this
long and discretionary war.
.
American taxpayers are giving up $3 billion dollars a year, plus a
poisoned political system where submissive deference to Israel is all
but mandatory, to a country that literally planned to get thousands of
our soldiers killed, hundreds of billions of our dollars wasted, and to
destabilize the entire Middle East.
Melman continues:
.
One such scary scenario was the possibility that Iranian intelligence
could have noticed the Israeli military preparations and decided to
stage a pre-emptive strike against Israel or US targets in the region.
Israel, in such a situation, would have claimed that it was a victim of
Iranian aggression and retaliated. America, too, could have found itself
caught up in an unpredictable circle of violence.
.
Sources who were privy to the secret deliberations told me that
Ashkenazi and Dagan eventually managed to convince the security cabinet
and then the full cabinet, which are the only authorized bodies to
decide on war and other vital issues, that Netanyahu and Barak were
playing with fire and may not only ignite a regional war in the Middle
East, but also ruin decades of close, intimate strategic cooperation
with the US.
.
Imagine the outrage, the indignation, if it were publicly revealed that
the leadership in any other country in the world did this to
the United States. Can you even imagine any plausible scenario where aid
and support would continue?
.
By the way, we've seen this kind of thinking before right here in the
United States. In September, Patrick Clawson of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy caught a lot of attention when he
suggested the United States should provoke Iran into starting a war.
These examples should illustrate just how (un)necessary a war with Iran
is, given that Iran seemingly refuses to be the one to start it.
http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/08/netanyahu-sought-to-provoke-iran-war-drag-in-us-in-2010/
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