Netanyahu Calling Early Elections for Possible October War With Iran?
A leading Israeli TV commentator suggests Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be calling elections nearly a full year ahead of schedule in order to open a window for a military campaign against Iran’s nuclear program in October, while President Obama is in the heat of his re-election campaign.
The Times of Israel reports:
In the weeks immediately after that vote, said well-connected commentator Amnon Abramovich on the top-rated Channel 2 news, Netanyahu will head a transition government at home and have no need to worry about voter sentiment, and he knows that President Barack Obama will be paralyzed by the US presidential campaign…
After the September elections, which all polls show Netanyahu winning easily, he will head a transition government for several weeks while a new coalition is formed. During that period, Netanyahu “will not be beholden to the voters,” and will be free to take decisions on Iran that many Israelis might not support, Abramovich said.
Netanyahu’s decision to trigger early elections took many Israeli political observers by surprise, but does come on the heels of increasing opposition to war with Iran over its nuclear program from thepublic, from the intelligence community, as well as from former government and military officials.
Netanyahu’s Likud Party is still expected by most to win the re-election amid a fractured and lackluster opposition. The Likud-led coalition also currently includes the second-largest party in the Knesset, Kadima, headed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Kadima was formed in 2005 by more moderate members of Likud and more conservative members of the Labor Party. Since then Kadima has largely eclipsed the Labor Party in size.
Netanyahu, the cynical cur that his is, has calculated that Obama, craven for re-election at any price will be dragged into a war against Iran because of our hideously butt-boy relationship with Israel. Netanyahu has recognized a full feathered fellow shit bird in Obama and I fear he is right. Maybe Ron Paul does have an outside chance.
ReplyDeleteFuck you deuce.
DeleteIsrael has every right to look after it's national security.
America under Obama will do nothing.
But if you are lucky? Obama will allow Iran to get a nuke and maybe USE it against America.
Then spineless shits like you will feel the pain of your own stupidity.
deuce is off his meds again, or needs a more efficacious drug. disproportionate reaction. soon to come will be "he is evil incarnate!"
DeleteHere is how some of the Israeli news reports see this.
ReplyDeleteDiplomatic immunity
Early elections have another important effect: They produce "diplomatic immunity" for Netanyahu and the Israeli government from negative US reaction should Israel decide to strike Iran.
By early September, the elections will be behind Netanyahu, and as a prime minister he won't have trouble to form a stable coalition and government that would endorse his position on an Iran strike. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama would still be in the midst of his own election campaign. During this period, until November of this year at least, he would have trouble taking punitive measures against Israel or endorsing such steps at the UN should such proposals be made in the wake of an Israeli strike.
Hence, Israel would have at least two months of freedom to act, before winter clouds hinder the Air Force and while assuming that the US, with clenched teeth, would help Israel defend against missile retaliation by Iran and its clients (Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah) and help us on the diplomatic front. Some observers argue that this is the main consideration that prompted Netanyahu to bring the elections forward.
Netanyahu is a dickhead who will - if he has his way - drag the whole of the Middle East into a disastrous conflict, at the very moment in history when an enlightened and intelligent leader could bring about a lasting peace. The hope must be that in Septemebr Obama looks to be re-elected with a mandate that gives him the courage to face down Netanyahu, but I have my doubts about that as well.
ReplyDeleteLogos, you are a dickhead.
Deletelasting peace?
with who?
Hamas?
Moslem Brotherhood?
the PA?
you dickhead...
Such a strike will also, most probably, cause a huge jump in oil prices, further lessening Obama's chances for reelection. If he does this he better hope Obama is defeated. If Obama survives the payback won't be pretty.
ReplyDeleteOil prices COULD be driven down if Obama wanted, but he doesnt want low oil prices...
DeleteAn attack on iran will pike oil for 4 weeks and when the smoke clears and it is shown a defeated Iran?
Prices will drop by 40 bucks a barrel
What a bunch of scared pussies you folks are about iran today.
No dont take out iran's nuke program today, wait til they complete the icbm then it's the right time to fight them
fucking maroons you are...
Religion will, eventually, be the death of us all.
ReplyDeleteHow a country with less the population of the State of Virginia managed to subvert the constitutional government of the USA is a marvel in its own right.
ReplyDeleteFUCK you ...
Deletethat is a blood libel anti-semitic remark.
you KNOW as well as I do that your point is shit.
congrats Herr Deuce you are becoming the Rat...
Does Mel Gibson hold a dear place in your heart now?
Not even possible without the compliance of the US media and elite opinionating class.
ReplyDeleteLet's give the John Hagees of the country their due, also.
ReplyDeleteAll those Bible-thumping evangelists, preaching about the "rapture," and what-not.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to like Chesapeake. While everybody else is leaving, they're doubling down in the gas patch. And, I don't see any way the price of nat gas isn't going to go extraterrestrial by Winter. It's not a good idea to bet against a Pure, Wide-Open Gambler Every Time.
ReplyDeleteSometimes. But not "Every" time.
ReplyDeleteA lot of Utilities have switched over to gas - just in time to see production go flat (and, soon, start falling.)
If you haven't checked out the chart on the bottom of
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you really need to take a look at it.
We're putting nat gas in storage at a rate of about 1/3 of normal. If this doesn't change (and I don't see how it can) it's going to soon be apparent to even the idiots that we're in danger of dropping below "minimum operating levels" by Feb.
Either you put up a link to the wrong chart, or you don't know how to read the data you bloviate about. Working gas in underground storage on your chart is 30% higher than the high side of the historic range on April-12, the last date on the chart.
Delete"Minimum Operating Level" is when there's not enough gas in the system to generate the pressure needed to move the gas to where it needs to go. I'm thinking "maybe around 800 B cu ft."
ReplyDeleteRegarding a comment from the last thread:
ReplyDeleteLet me see if I have this about right;
Oil prices are all the way down to a little more than twice what they were in 2005, and all it took to accomplish this was for Japan, and all of Europe to go into Recession, and for the U.S. to cut its oil usage by approx. 6 Million bbl/day (leading, of course, to slow growth, high unemployment, and declining disposable income for the middle and lower classes,)
and this is supposed to, in some way, destroy my peak oil argument to the extent that I'm probably feeling suicidal? Really?
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ReplyDeleteThat is pretty silly, Ruf, since according to you Peak Oil caused it all as well as the disappearance of 'go-go' boots and the glitter ball.
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That's disingenuous Q. I never said anything about 'go-go' boots, and glitter balls.
ReplyDeleteAnd, point to one place where I said "peak oil Caused It All."
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, are you asserting that the Recessions in Japan, and Europe, and the Slowdown in the U.S. haven't had a dampening effect on oil prices?
OR, conversely, that the Increasing Price of Oil hasn't led to slower growth in the developed economies?
ReplyDeleteI love "sloppy" tracks. No need to think, and agonize. Just bet on the ugliest, longest odds horse in the race, and head for the bar.
ReplyDeleteA twenty horse field, And a sloppy track?!?! Lord, I'd just as soon bet on one of the companion ponies.
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DeleteWe're just heading out the door to the Casino. I'm betting Hansen, cause he's a Swede even though he was born in Kentucky.
Besides, he had a fearsome momma --
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/69476/hansen-survived-his-mother-to-achieve-acclaim
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ReplyDeleteStill here, waiting on the girls.
DeleteWhat's wrong with calling an election? In an important national time? On an important national issue? He might lose, or be weakened. Netanyahu doesn't make the decision all by himself, even without an election.
Cronyism is what we have going back in D.C. big time. More than ever.
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Netanyahu is determined to drag the US into a war with Iran.
DeleteHe cannot go to war with Iran by himself. Israel can start a war with Iran but cannot finish it on terms that are acceptable and in the long wrong would pay a very high price for the recklessness of Bibi.
Cite the last time in history that a small minor state dragged a great power into war. The relationship between the current Israeli political leadership and our slugs in congress is historically bizarre. An Israeli attack against Iran would be cheered on by the Saudis, who owned 75% of the attackers on 911 and have financed AQ under bin Laden.
Iran is no threat to the United States. There were no Iranians in the planes on 911. There is no record of Iranian espionage and the stealing of US classified nuclear weapon technology.
The wahabiists in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are a far greater threat to the US. The Iranians have every right to feel threatened by the US and Israel because that is all we ever hear about and of course the Iranians have noticed. It would be astonishing if they did not want nuclear weapons.
Sorry if I think you are an appeasing spineless wimp...
ReplyDeletebut you are...
excuse me, you are an ignorant spineless wimp.
you are an Iranian apologist...
deuce the Neville Chamberland of the Blog says
ReplyDeletePeace in our time..
"Iran is no threat to the United States. There were no Iranians in the planes on 911. There is no record of Iranian espionage and the stealing of US classified nuclear weapon technology."
No one as blind as one who refuses to see.
Is Deuce and his type scared?
Just anti-semitic?
Or just want to see an Iranian nuke destroy the world we know?
inquiring minds want to know
The President, the former President, the former, former President, the former, former, former President all think Iran is a threat to the USA
ReplyDeleteThe please NAME one President of the USA that didnt thnk that...
Limit your answers to modern presidents please.
Notice no real problem with America fighting wars in Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Afgahistan but Iran is taboo..
ReplyDeleteDeuce how much does Iran pay you to support them?
Wio, you're a mad as a hatter.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, but I am not an appeasing coward about Iran like you and deuce.
DeleteIran is a threat to the USA so says every modern American President.
ReplyDeleteSo says Congress...
Deuce and Rufus, say not....
CAIR says not..
Iranians say not...
Bin Laden was a friend of Iran's mullahs
I am not...
Deuce are you for an Iranian NUKE?
How much do they pay you to support your line of anti-israel. pro iran propaganda?
Maybe real sanctions are the way to prevent a real hot war with Iran, sorry if the President didnt sign waivers for 11 nations so the sanctions are meaningless
ReplyDeletenotice Iran's enrichment has not even SLOWED since the so called sanctions have been applied...
The only resident nuclear power in the Middle East is Israel. If I were an Iranian, I would want to protect my country against attack real and threatened. Nuclear deterrance has worked well for the US, Russia, China, France, India, North Korea and India. It is working for Israel. The Iranians have a right to develop a nuclear weapon whether I like it or not. They certainly have no less a right to have one than ________________. You can fill in the blanks.
ReplyDeleteIF Israel the power you claim it is and the THREAT you claim it is to Iran then WHY is IRAN NOT NUKED?
DeleteNuclear deterrence does not work with Islamic Hidden Imam theology.
Actually Iran, as a signer of NPT has NO right to build a weapon.
If it chooses to do so? It will invite an attack by many nations.
As for the RIGHT of Israel to have nukes? It NEVER signed a contract with the world getting technology as did Iran did.
El Salvador, Cuba, Malta....
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El Salvador, Cuba, Malta....
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The only one that I hear threatening Iran is Netanyahu.
ReplyDeleteAmerica under successive Presidents have said that Iran will NOT attain a weapon.
Deleteread that however you will.
As for threatening a nation Iran does that to America and Israel on a yearly basis.
Pull your head out of your ass
Track looks fast. Don't matter. No one can pick the Derby anyway.
ReplyDeletebobbo can. He put Rufus up on I'll Have Another, if you were wise enough to notice!!
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I love the way deuce completely paints Iran as some innocent peace loving nation.
ReplyDeleteLike history never happened....
Iran is a threat to the USA and to the west and to Israel.
ReplyDeleteIran is not Israel's problem it the world's.
But if the world is filled with a bunch of pussies?
Israel will not commit suicide so that deuce can have cheap oil.
The Tea Party is and always has been a conspiracy. My wife and I were two of the original organizers of the conspiracy, right there in our lawn chairs with our rat inspired signs, our American flag, and our attitudes at the park in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho under the pines and cedars. For this, I have been called a 'right-wing extremist'.
ReplyDeleteCo-opted? Yes.
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What happened to the post I was replying to?
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Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and Gilad Erdan, today's environmental protection minister, got into a war of words that was highlighted by Dagan calling Erdan "a liar."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/jpost_conference_message_stand_united_stand_strong.html
Recent Jerusalem Post conference in New York report.
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As much as I hate to admit it, I do think Gadahn has a point in regard to the average Catholic in the pew (i.e. the Obama-supporting Catholic who embraces liberalism more than Catholic teaching) having an overly-favorable view of Islam. After all, political correctness is sacred among modernist Catholics.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/are_catholics_fertile_ground_for_conversion_to_islam.html
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What is "Occupation"May 5, 2012 11:14 AM
ReplyDeleteLogos, you are a dickhead.
lasting peace?
with who?
Hamas?
Moslem Brotherhood?
the PA?
you dickhead...
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The Teheran Times states the obvious, not that it will persuade the ranting fool who is incapable of an intelligent debate:
It sometimes falls on a country’s ex-military men to warn the public of the combative bluster of their elected officials. Retired, they have little to lose and are more familiar with the costs of war than the cycles of elected politicians looking to push their foreign policy de jour onto the public.
For example, in the past two weeks, newly-retired Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Ehud Barak were presenting a "mirage" to the public. He said a false dichotomy was being pushed: strike Iran or see a nuclear Iran. Diskin’s comments have been echoed by several ex-military and intelligence figures including 2002-2011 Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who called Israel’s Iran policy ill-conceived and the idea of an attack on Iran "the stupidest thing I have ever heard". Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who ordered the siege of Gaza, even joined the chorus last Sunday.
But Likud hawks now face open mutiny from the serving top brass of Israel’s security services. Dagan’s successor Tamir Pardo, said Iran does not pose an existential threat to Israel. Netanyahu's military Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, the man likely responsible for giving the orders to train MEK assassins to strike Iranian nuclear scientists, went on the record to say that Iran was rational.
“Rational” is an interesting word in this context because since the early 1990s Israel has employed a propaganda campaign to cast Iran as an irrational actor for the purpose of attempting to check Iran’s power in the region. Mostly for the benefit of its U.S. patrons the story runs that Iran is not a rational political player and is therefore undeterred by the traditional checks and balances that maintain world order. By weaving this fiction Israel encourages the U.S. to take a hard line with Iran and adopt a zero-tolerance policy on its nuclear program.
This principle should be kept firmly in mind when interpreting Israel’s rhetoric and actions towards Iran. In November 2011, the IAEA released a paper stating that Iran did not have an active nuclear program (findings which reiterated pervious IAEA reports and two US National Intelligence Estimates). Overnight Israel’s executive and spin doctors created a media storm, briefing on “zones of immunity”, “existential threats” and stirring up images from the Holocaust, with many pundits soberly talking about the inevitability of war. Months later the war drums were muted and some sense was restored: Obama publically chastised Israeli lobby AIPAC, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei twice repeated his fatwa against developing nuclear weapons and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, U.S. Chief of Staff Martin Dempsey poured cold water on Israel’s prediction of imminent armageddon.
The problem was that the damage had already been done. By ratcheting up the propaganda to boiling point, an uncontroversial IAEA report resulted in an EU embargo on Iranian oil and “crippling” U.S. on Iran’s financial system causing sharp inflation. The sad fact is that hawkish hysteria from Israel is taken seriously every time and rarely seen for the sham that it is.