Israel and the Power Struggle over Iran By Ludwig Watzal Should Israel attack Iran’s nuclear installations? Over this question, a fierce dispute flared up among Israel’s security establishment. In the beginning of the year, the former chief of the Israeli Mossad, Meir Dagan, was a lone voice in the wilderness. [...]
Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak over Iran PM and defence chief not fit to lead Israel and are misleading the public over Iran, warns former Shin Bet boss Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 April 2012 12.58 BST Article history Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin criticises Netanyahu and Barak [...]
Former head of Shin Bet says ‘messianic feelings’ driving Iran rhetoric. By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) — A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country’s leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program because of what he called the “messianic feelings” behind their threats to launch a pre-emptive war on Iran. Other veterans have come [...]
Israel paves way to war with Iran Monday, 09 April 2012 Israel is paving the way to launch a military attack to destruct Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure. Recent strategic reports in Israel anticipate that human casualties in the Hebrew state could be limited to just 300 persons if a [...]
A rocket is launched from the Israeli anti-missile system Iron Dome, which could be used against Hezbollah in the event of war with Iran. Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP Israel predicts few casualties from war with Iran Assessment presented to security cabinet forecasts fewer than 300 casualties during three weeks of rocket attacks Israeli security officials have [...]
Bibi: First We’ll Take Tehran, Then We’ll Take Istanbul By Richard Silverstein March 29, 2012 “Tikun Olam” – Yesterday, brought ominous news regarding yet another aggressive Israeli projection of its military power in the Mideast. Since 1967, with but [...]
Ehud Barak with German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere in Berlin, March 20, 2012. Photo by: AP Germany official: Meeting with Israel’s Barak left me ‘more concerned’ of war with Iran Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere says feels some Israeli cabinet members do not give enough thought to the negative consequences that could develop in wake of a strike of Iran‘s nuclear [...]
Israel, US Disagree on Timetable for Attacking Iran Israel says it “cannot afford” to wait for an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which intelligence says doesn’t exist by John Glaser, March 22, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israel and the U.S. disagree on how soon a military attack on Iran would be necessary, Israel’s defense minister said [...]
Statements made by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak led analysts to say that the assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi was not about direct prevention [AFP] Beer-Sheva, Israel - In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at [...]
Israel’s Ruthless Golani Brigade By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 10 March 2012 Israel’s Ruthless Golani Brigade by Stephen Lendman On February 28, 1948, David Ben-Gurion formed Golani to help ethnically cleanse Palestine during Israel’s War of Independence. Ariel Sharon was one of its first commanders. Earlier he was a notorious Hagana [...]
This is the You Tube link to an interview with Gareth Porter on Iran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTqkOa8dwp0&feature=youtube_gdata Related articles Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter. MP3 provided. Wide ranging interview on Israel push for war with Iran (ikners.com) How the Media Got the Iran/IAEA Access Story Wrong. A must read Gareth Porter article (ikners.com) Gareth Porter: Delhi [...]
Unlike Bush, Obama Is Selling Israel the Planes and Bombs to Attack Iran By davidswanson - Posted on 07 March 2012 Netanyahu asked Panetta to approve sale of bunker-busting bombs, U.S. official says Top administration source says Obama instructed Defense Secretary to work with Defense Minister Barak, to give all due consideration to [...]
Netanyahu’s Conspiracy to Drag the U.S. to War ‘Sometime between early June and mid-August, just before the Republican nominating convention, will be the ideal moment to drag the United States into war, the planners believe.’ By Sefi Rachlevsky March 06, 2012 “Haaretz” — Let’s assume that everything goes beautifully. Defense Minister [...]
Israel Dragging US into War with Iran 2 March 2012 The statements that senior Israeli officials are releasing are increasingly sharp, and they contain a character threatening to Iran because of its nuclear ambitions. This coincides with a conspicuous pilgrimage of senior military officials to the US capital, Washington. Ehud Barak, [...]
Ehud Barak and President Barack Obama (Credit: AP) The incomplete media debate on Iran BY GLENN GREENWALD (updated below – Update II [Sat.]) On January 25, the New York Times Sunday Magazine published alengthy article by Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman that conveyed the views of multiple Israeli officials about Iran in order to conclude that an Israeli attack [...]
Israeli Officials Complain of US Reluctance to Attack Iran US officials speaking out against an unnecessary war with Iran are aiding the Ayatollahs, Israelis say by John Glaser, March 01, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israeli officials are again complaining that public statements from top U.S. officialshave not been sufficiently supportive of waging war [...]
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda before a meeting at the latter’s official residence in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Photo by: Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda urged Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday not to resort to military action against Iran over [...]
by Jason Ditz, January 27, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Such public displays have been incredibly common in recent years, but US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey’s emergency visit to Israel last week may well have had a sense of genuine urgency not often seen. [...]
US, Israel Agree: Iran Not Building Nukes by Ray McGovern, January 26, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world [...]
Ehud Barak on Iran: ‘In my opinion, we are not there yet.’ Photograph: Lior Mizrahi/AFP/Getty Images Israel‘s defence minister, Ehud Barak, has warned that tougher sanctions need to be imposed on Iran despite the unprecedented oil embargo agreed by the European Union earlier this week. Although he conceded the EU measures would add significant pressure to the Tehran regime, [...]
Iran is a sovereign country that hasn’t attacked a neighbour in over 200 years, so why is it not ‘allowed’ by the international community to have it’s own nuclear programme like so many other nations? [GALLO/GETTY] Santa Barbara, CA - The public discussion in the West addressing Iran’s nuclear programme has mainly relied on threat diplomacy, [...]
‘Israel to Give Obama 12 Hours Notice on Attacking Iran’ Israel told visiting US Gen. Dempsey that Obama would get no more than 12 hours notice before an attack on Iran, the London Times reports. By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu January 22, 2012 “INR” — Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint [...]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as Israel was established. The purpose of [...]
Israel Tamps Down Iran War Threats by Ray McGovern In a stunning departure from recent Israeli threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday used an interview with Israel’s Army radio to assert that any attack on Iran “is very far off,” [...]
The purpose of the law was to criminalize refugees returning home. By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as [...]
In these two articles on the coming war with Iran there is a good deal of analysis of the real position. Israel clearly wants an all out confrontation but is unwilling to take the sole responsibility for that happening. Despite many years of trying to get the US [...]
image by hasbarafellowships.org Accompanied by a US aircraft carrier, 9,000 US troops including airmen, missile interceptor teams, marines, technicians and intelligence officers are scheduled to land in Israel in the coming weeks. Many will stay up to the end of the year as part of the US-Israeli Army deployment in readiness for a military engagement [...]
Israel‘s Defense Minister Ehud Barak (L) and his Greek counterpart Dimitris Avramopoulos watch a military parade at the Defence Ministry in Athens on Jan. 10, 2012. (REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel is making preparations to house refugees from Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s minority Alawite sect should his government fall, Israel’s military chief told a [...]
Obama Seeks to Distance US From Israeli Attack by Gareth Porter, January 04, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in intense maneuvering over Netanyahu’s aim of entangling the United States in an Israeli war against Iran. Netanyahu is exploiting the extraordinary [...]
Scott Horton Interviews Gareth Porter Scott Horton, January 01, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses theIsraeli Mossad chief’s admission that a nuclear-armed Iran would not be an “existential threat;” the conflict between policy “realists” in Israel’s military and intelligence community [...]
The supposedly explosive report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) detailing that Iran is resuming its reputed nuclear weapons program has had a less than radioactive fallout. After Israeli officials threatened unilateral action against Iran’s nuclear sites for a few days, their hitherto heated rhetoric cooled. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak eventually downplayed the saber-rattling, [...]
In West Bank, Israel’s Rule is That of the Jungle In the hands of this government, which mainly involve moving buildings built on private lands to ‘state lands’, have become instruments to deepen the occupation and obstruct the two-state solution. By Haaretz Editorial January [...]
U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Infrastructure Dec 28, 2011 4:45 AM EST The Obama administration is trying to assure Israel privately that it would strike Iran militarily if Tehran’s nuclear program crosses certain “red lines”—while attempting to dissuade the Israelis from acting unilaterally. Eli Lake reports [...]
This page has always maintained that a nuclear device will be dropped/used in Iran. It appears that that time is getting closer by the day. The Israelis can never see the light of day at the negotiating table and their [...]
Israeli soldiers stand next to a launcher, part of the first “Iron Dome” missile … As long as you keep picking. helping and supporting bad friends all you do is make enemies of good people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Israel‘s defence ministry said on Sunday that the United States has agreed to provide it with [...]
President Barack Obama talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting in New York, Wednesday, Sept., 21, 2011. Photo by: AP Palestinian officials: U.S. isolated over support of Israel settlements PLO delegation to the United States welcomes UN Security Council censure of West Bank construction, urges U.S. to join the [...]
An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks past graffiti sprayed on the outside of a mosque in Jerusalem December 14, 2011. The graffiti reads in Hebrew “A good Arab is a dead Arab.” (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he would not define violent Jewish extremists as terrorists after a string [...]
War clouds gather in the Middle East By Victor KotsevAn all-out war in the Middle East is hardly in anybody’s interest, yet it may happen, either as an escalation of a lower-intensity conflict, or because one of the sides miscalculates or is pushed into a corner. A more localized outbreak, for [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office. (AFP/Gali Tibbon) By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Cautioned by Washington about the risks of a military strike on Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday about making “the right decision at the right moment,” even when [...]
Israeli troops pictured near the Jewish settlement of Bracha on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of Burin, near Nablus. (MaanImages/file) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — The Israeli defense ministry has approved plans for 119 housing units in the settlement of Shilo, north of Jerusalem, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. The permits were issued [...]
A slip of the tongue betrays Israel’s hardline propaganda Tony Karon Nov 23, 2011 It’s no wonder that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly ordered his defence minister to shut up. Ehud Barak, after all, has a well-established habit of telling inconvenient truths – while running for prime minister in 1999, he was asked what [...]
Ehud Barak recently implied that an Iranian bid for nuclear weapons is geopolitical, and not just about Israel [Getty] Washington DC – The classic definition of a campaign gaffe is when a politician inadvertently speaks a truth that will hurt him politically. The first George Bush committed a gaffe when he said that the idea [...]
Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? By Neve Gordon* Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack against Iran. “[United States Secretary of Defence Leon] Panetta Demanded Commitment to Coordinate Action in Iran” read one headline, and [...]
Israel‘s Defense Minister Ehud Barak takes part in a news conference in Ottawa on Nov. 16. (Reuters/Blair Gable) By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Defense Minister Ehud Barak tried to reassure Israelis about the government’s resolve on Thursday after he appeared to empathize with Iran‘s controversial nuclear quest during an American television interview. Barak’s [...]
Israel’s Defense Chief OK’s Hundreds of Israeli Deaths by Ira Chernus “If we take out the Iranian nuke facilities, sure, they’ll strike back at us,” Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said yesterday. “But if every American stays in their home when the Iranian rockets start falling, well, it will be uncomfortable. It won’t [...]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, pictured in April 2011. (AFP/POOL/File Sebastian Scheiner) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday hailed the deadly munitions blast at a base of Iran‘s elite Revolutionary Guards and hoped for more such incidents. “I don’t know the extent of the explosion,” he told military radio, when [...]
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | November 13, 2011 Angela Keaton, November 13, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum IN THIS ISSUE IAEA report on Iran prompts war talk Israel is concerned about Palestinian progress at U.N. War in Af-Pak for the foreseeable future Assorted news from the empire What’s new at the [...]
Iran‘s suspected nuclear enrichment facility under construction at Qom. Reports claim the Mossad was behind a huge blast at a facility which killed a missile development pioneer. Photograph: AP Israeli secret service the Mossad linked to Iran military blast Israeli media report claims the Mossad was behind ‘huge blast’ at Bid Ganeh base that killed [...]
Antiwar.com’s Week in Review | November 13, 2011 A Note to Our Loyal Readers We have kept our fund raising approach low key over the past year our coverage has been on high alert. From Wikileaks to weekly updates, Antiwar.com has been there seven days a week with the best in foreign [...]
Image 1 of 2 Israeli jets could target sites such as the nuclear power plant at Bushehr, right Photo: GARY DAWSON/AP By Adrian Blomfield, in Jerusalem Israel refuses to tell US its Iran intentions Israel has refused to reassure President Barack Obama that it would warn him in advance of any pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, raising fears that it [...]
