Israel to level sanctions against the US?

[zengrifter]

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Wag The Dog–Israel Threatens “Punishment” Against the US
Published June 20, 2009

“Israel leveling sanctions against the United States”–It sounds like a skit on Saturday Night Live or some theme in a science fiction story that defies all known norms of reality.

Nevertheless, that is exactly what has been proposed recently by at least one well-known minister of Knesset, Yossi Peled of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Similar in appearance to some KGB-produced indictment that in darker times would have been used in charging, convicting and then executing an individual classified as an enemy of the state, the 11-page letter written and then personally given to Netanyahu by his colleague asserts that the new America governed by President Obama has now become “hostile” to the Jewish state. By insisting Israel abide by the same international law that other countries are invaded and then destroyed for flouting, Peled maintains that a “turning point” has arrived in America’s approach to the region and especially “to Israel“ and that “the new diplomatic slant” being used to “pacify the Muslim world” and the adoption of a more balanced approach to Israel” constitutes a clear and present danger to the Jewish state that must be met with action.

If the mere suggestion of Israel biting the hand that feeds her is surreal in and of itself, the actual mechanics he suggests in bringing it about is downright Stephen Spielbergian in its madness. Included among Peled’s recommendations is that the Jewish state should go shopping for a new supplier of military goods, the sale of “sensitive” equipment that Washington opposes distributing internationally, and allowing other “competing” countries to “get involved with the peace process” and be given “a foothold for their military forces and intelligence agencies”.

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[Pelerus]

The Israeli leadership appears to have lost all touch with reality.

They now resemble a rogue regime, à la North Korea, which entertains paranoid megalomaniacal grandiosity and embellishment...

Fortunately for us onlookers, they have seen fit to communicate these fantasies.

[Katweezel]

Originally Posted by Pelerus

The Israeli leadership appears to have lost all touch with reality.

They now resemble a rogue regime, à la North Korea, which entertains paranoid megalomaniacal grandiosity and embellishment...

Fortunately for us onlookers, they have seen fit to communicate these fantasies.

Here is one response to that article:
..."Israel now has five of the most dangerous and stealthy submarines in the oceans today. It should give us ease of mind to know that the submarines, cruise missiles and bombs which will destroy us physically, were built with Pentagon assistance, with funding by robbing the Social Security Funds of America’s laboring classes, who the racist Zionist-bankers intend to exterminate.

With the aid of Jonathan Pollard, Israel built these submarines for ONE purpose … that of ATTACKING the UNITED STATES. They were specially designed to defeat the naval defensive systems of one nation and one nation alone … that of the United States. They are each armed with 24 supersonic cruise missiles, against which, once launched within our continental waters, we have no defenses. That’s roughly 2 missiles, for each of the state capitals, and each of the next largest cities in the U.S. The plan is for a TOTAL KATRINA effect.

The racist idiots who made all this possible, by providing a cover for Zionist racism, have no idea of what awaits them. None whatsoever."

Kat: This is the first time I heard mention of these Israeli submarines. Can anyone here confirm if any of this is true? If some of it is true, how many Israeli nuclear weapons are deployed on these submarines? Remember when people worried about Russian submarines? Now perhaps the same worriers better start worrying about nuclear-armed Israeli submarines roaming at the whim of an increasingly-nutty, trigger-happy Israeli administration. Iran better watch out when all of them are heading into the Persian Gulf...

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Pelerus

The Israeli leadership appears to have lost all touch with reality.

They now resemble a rogue regime, à la North Korea, which entertains paranoid megalomaniacal grandiosity and embellishment...

A Jewish professor agrees with you -

Israel Is A "Rogue State" Says Jewish Oxford Prof

[aslan]

ISRAEL BETRAYED

PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TREATING OUR FRIEND LIKE A FIEND, AND TURNING PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST AN ALLY

By JAMES KIRCHICK


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Last updated: 4:55 pm
June 21, 2009
Posted: 5:16 pm
June 20, 2009
When Barack Obama was running for president, he vigorously reassured voters of his firm commitment to America's special relationship with Israel. Indeed, he worked to beef up his pro-Israel bona fides long before he even announced his intention to run. In a 2006 speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama recounted a helicopter tour over the Israeli border with the West Bank. "I could truly see how close everything is and why peace through security is the only way for Israel," he said. In that same speech, Obama called the Jewish State "our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy." During the primary and general election campaigns, Obama dispatched a stream of high-profile Jewish supporters to canvas Florida, and in a 2008 AIPAC speech, he went so far as to declare that Jerusalem must remain the "undivided" capital of Israel.
For all the qualms that anti-Obama "smears" would depress support in the Jewish community, Jews rewarded Obama with nearly 80% of their votes, more than they gave John Kerry.
Just six months into the new administration, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that those who harbored suspicions about Obama's approach to the Middle East had good reason to be worried. A confluence of factors -- including his administration's undue pressure on Israel, a conciliatory approach to authoritarian Muslim regimes, and the baseless linkage of the failed "peace process" to the curtailment of the Iranian nuclear program -- point to what could become "the greatest disagreement between the two countries in the history of their relationship," as Middle East expert Robert Satloff recently told Newsweek.
This dramatic shift in American policy began several months ago when the administration signaled that it would make the cessation of Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank the centerpiece of its policy to revamp the region. And that approach, mostly hinted at through anonymous leaks, became as good as official when Obama delivered his vaunted address to the Muslim world in Cairo earlier this month. In that speech, Israel (and, specifically, its policy of settlement construction) was the only state to merit specific criticism from the president of the United States. Among all the degradations and injustices in the Middle East, from the abhorrent treatment of women in nations like Saudi Arabia, to Syrian-backed assassinations of pro-sovereignty politicians in Lebanon, to the arrest and imprisonment of gay men in Egypt, the leader of the free world singled out America's one, reliable democratic ally in the region for rebuke.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202009...yed_175238.htm

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Katweezel

"Israel built these submarines for ONE purpose … that of ATTACKING the UNITED STATES. They were specially designed to defeat the naval defensive systems of one nation and one nation alone … that of the United States. "

See -

Golem - Israel's Nuclear Hell Bomb and the Road to Global Armageddon

Samson Option: Israel's Plan to Prevent Mass Destruction Attacks

The Samson Option is a term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence, and possibly against other targets as well.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

See -

Golem - Israel's Nuclear Hell Bomb and the Road to Global Armageddon

Samson Option: Israel's Plan to Prevent Mass Destruction Attacks

The Samson Option is a term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence, and possibly against other targets as well.

In 1998 Israeli defense analyst Zeev Schiff opined in Haaretz: "Off-the-cuff Israeli nuclear threats have become a problem, even before the onset of the Iraqi crisis."[22] David Hirst notes that “The threatening of wild, irrational violence, in response to political pressure, has been an Israeli impulse from the very earliest days.” and “Israel will remain at least as likely a candidate as Iran, and a far more enduring one, for the role of 'nuclear-crazy' state.”[23] Some “Samson Option” threats seem to be directed against nations which have not attacked Israel. Ariel Sharon has said: "We are much more important than (Americans) think. We can take the middle east with us whenever we go."[24] and "No longer 'Masada Option' - now 'Samson Option.’”[25] A “former Israeli govt official” with “first hand knowledge of his government’s nuclear weapons program” told Seymour Hersh: “You Americans screwed us” for not supporting Israel in its 1956 war with Egypt. “We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.”[26]

[aslan]

Israel to level sanctions against the US?

I don't think so.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by aslan

Israel to level sanctions against the US?

I don't think so.

Nevertheless, that is exactly what has been proposed recently by at least one well-known minister of Knesset, Yossi Peled of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Similar in appearance to some KGB-produced indictment that in darker times would have been used in charging, convicting and then executing an individual classified as an enemy of the state, the 11-page letter written and then personally given to Netanyahu by his colleague asserts that the new America governed by President Obama has now become “hostile” to the Jewish state.

[aslan]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

Nevertheless, that is exactly what has been proposed recently by at least one well-known minister of Knesset, Yossi Peled of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Similar in appearance to some KGB-produced indictment that in darker times would have been used in charging, convicting and then executing an individual classified as an enemy of the state, the 11-page letter written and then personally given to Netanyahu by his colleague asserts that the new America governed by President Obama has now become “hostile” to the Jewish state.

The Knesset is like Congress. Anything might come out of the mouth of any single member, but you can't infer anything meaningful about the whole from such a remark.