I’m not advocating such a thing. I’m only suggesting that to think the Israeli’s haven’t thought of it, is to believe I am smarter than they are…LOL.

Don’t believe that Israel will not act, and don’t think they will not act decisively…history has shown otherwise.

Be prepared for World War. Unfortunately, I believe it is in our future.

You want yet another round of the same? In another 6 to 8 years we could talk our way into Iran building long-range missiles and multiple-target warheads. Quite a success story for a nation that defies the West and threatens Israel with total destruction.

It is beginning to seem like the West is not able to muster the courage of their convictions regarding Iran, and is resigning itself that Iran will obtain nuclear weapons.

One exception is Israel, whose very existence is at stake if Iran succeeds. There is a distinct possibility that Israel wants to attack Iran to force them into a response that would drag the US into the fight, thereby insuring far greater destruction of Iran’s warmaking capability and nuclear facilities than Israel could achieve alone.

Consider that to do a thorough job on Iran, many dispersed sites must be hit, each of which is defended against air attack. To roam all over Iran finding and hitting nuclear-related sites, air superiority and suppression of air defenses must be achieved. This in turn means that central command and control sites and communications facilities must be taken out, as well as any number of radar sites and missile or gun installations. If the US joins the fight, all of these goals become feasible.

Having achieved this superiority, then, larger aircraft can be sent into Iraq carrying the huge bombs needed to penetrate deeply buried facilities. Some of these weapons weigh 20,000lb or more, and can be launched out of C-130s rear ramps, or from large bombers like the B-52 and B-2 that only we have.

The money the US has given Israel is beside the point.

The population of Israel is beside the point, except as targets for Iranian rockets.

The industrial strength of Israel is beside the point.

All are pointless in the face of a situation that is not under our control.

We cannot stop Israel from attacking Iran.

We cannot stop Iran from retaliating. We cannot stop Iran from retaliating against the US population and facilities if they elect to do so.

If they do attack us we will be at war with Iran.

Moaning about what we have spent on their behalf is simply stupid. But then there are such people as Jew-haters, too, that don’t give a da*n what happens to Israel. I might have provoked one here to try to argue about money the US spent!

The Islamic states that surround Israel are professional Jew-haters, and they have significant armed forces, and lots of “irregulars” to wreck havoc, and plenty of Iranian rockets to rain down on Israel.

Yes, poor Israel, when it is becoming clear that Obama and other clowns are in the process of backing away from them.

This is his test. I believe he will fail it.

“I pity Israel facing the hostile Islamic nations around them alone, thanks to the idiot in the White House.”

This is the kind of statement that proves undoubtedly that you have no clue what you’re talking about..

The population of Israel stands at 7,411,000, according to figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)…Some 5,593,000 of the population (75.5 percent) are Jewish Israelis, 1,498,000 (20.2%) are Israeli Arabs and the remaining 320,000 (4.3%) are immigrants, their offspring, and foriegn workers..

Of that 20% Arab population, 85% are Muslim, particularly of the Sunni branch of Islam..

Islam Mannning…BOO!

Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain..

Israel has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976, and the largest total recipient since World War ll..

The U.S. is providing Israel with at least $7.0 million each day in military aid, and is giving the Palestinians $0 in military aid during Fiscal Year 2009..

Poor, poor Israel…we should pity them!

Israel receives about $3 billion in direct U.S. foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America’s entire foreign aid budget..

That’s American taxpayer money Mannning…Do I have your attention now?

Where’s the Teabaggers when you really need them…huh?

Over the last 20 years, as the Israeli economy has grown, the U.S. has been slowly phasing out some economic aid to Israel, and gradually replacing it with increased military aid..

Beginning in 2007, the U.S. has been increasing military aid to Israel by $150 million each year..

Taxpayer money..

by early February 2009, the US had already given Israel at least $2.55 billion in military aid for Fiscal Year 2009..

Taxpayer money…

By the way Mannning, did you know that homosexuals have served openly in the Israeli Defense Forces since 1933…gross huh?

Contrary to ordinary U.S. policy, Israel has been and continues to be allowed to use over 26% of this military aid to purchase equipment from Israeli manufacturers instead of American defense contractors. According to Congressional Research Service (CRS), no other recipient of U.S. military assistance has been granted this benefit. Thanks in part to this indirect U.S. subsidy, Israel’s arms industry has become one of the strongest in the world. In 2007, it was the 8th largest arms supplier to the developing world..

The Congressional Research Service’s conservative estimate of total cumulative U.S.
aid to Israel (not adjusted for inflation) from 1949 through 2009 is $106 billion and change..

Taxpayer money..

U.S. tax dollars are subsidizing what is already one of the most powerful, well armed, and technologically superior foreign militaries on earth..

But it doesn’t stop there..

The “indirect” costs to the American taxpayer as a result of Washington’s support for Israel exceed by many times the amount of “direct” U.S. aid to Israel..

Some of these “indirect” costs would include the costs to U.S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, the costs to U.S. companies and consumers of the Arab oil embargo, and consequent soaring oil prices as a result of U.S. support for Israel in the 1973 war, and the costs of U.S. unilateral economic sanctions on Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria..

More taxpayer money Mannning…estimated in the trillions..

So excuuuuuse me if I don’t “pity” poor poor “all alone” Israel for having all those “hostile Islamic nations around them,” because Israel has enough nukes to turn whole region into glass if it needs to, and they haven’t been left “alone” by America…ever.

I should know, because I’ve been helping to pay their way my entire working career…as I imagine you have too..

Enjoy your pity party..

I pity Israel facing the hostile Islamic nations around them alone, thanks to the idiot in the White House.

Again, if they have the bomb now it isn’t because they built it in the eight months Obama has been president.

Israel is much better served having France in the tent pissing out instead of outside pissing in.

Why can’t you admit Iran is exactly in it’s current position because of what George Bush did or did not do for eight years. Invading Iraq was supposed to provide a bullwark against Iran, free oil production, and cause democracy to flower in the Middle East.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

It’s satisfying I guess to you to blame Democrats all the way back to Jimmy Carter, but the fact is Obama inherited the problem and the situation and has had less than a year to craft a solution against GW’s eight full ones.

President Obama owns Iran now and unlike his predecessor I have no doubt he will do something more than glare at the Ayatollah. I also have no doubt he will try honest, tough diplomacy before plunging the United States into yet a third war to add to the two that we already have.

If the balloon does go up I also have no doubt that the 101st Chairborne will be safely back home talking tough.

Iran represents a real test of Obama’s single term of disaster, quite similar to that of Jimmy Carter, and probably with identical results–zip.

I pity Israel facing the hostile Islamic nations around them alone, thanks to the idiot in the White House.