The only thing good about the emerging crisis over Iran’s nuclear program is the way it’s rallying the international community against Iran and giving the United Nations another chance to prove it has a point. Nobody trusts Iran’s assurances about its reasons for restarting its program to reprocess nuclear fuel — or doubts Iran’s willingness to use nuclear weapons against Israel. So the goal must be to stop Iran now, preferably via the U.N. Security Council and possible economic and political sanctions. China and Russia remain question marks, but every outrageous statement by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (in photo) should make it easier to reach consensus on one point: The world must do all it can to avoid a nuclear Iran.
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Wrong. Iran is not the problem. Endless trouble-making Israel has been destabilizing the Middle from its inception in 1948.
Ever since Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: The holocaust is a myth, Israel has been in a panic to bomb Iran, after having said that Iran was 10 years away from actually having a nuclear weapon.
No matter that such a bombing of Iran would drive the American price of gasoline high enough to cripple or destroy our economy, Israel doesn’t care.
Israel values nothing besides its own greed or lust for power. Not even the lives of Jews.
Let me explain:
After his election to Prime Minister in 2000 Ariel Sharon needed some dead Jews. Israel operates on dead Jews. When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: The holocaust is a myth, he attacked the very engine which drives Israel; Dead Jews.
In 2000 Sharon violated and defiled Islam’s third holiest site in Jerusalem, The al-Aqsa Intifada Mosque.Knowing a retaliation from Palestinians would absolutely happen.
Again; Sharon needed dead Jews. And according to script, the Palestinians bombed a busload of working-class Jews, { not the Likuds who stay safe in their bunker-built homes }.
After that Bus-bombing, Sharon made a grand media event out of visiting the bombed-out bus and bloodied bodies,{ which he had caused } then after much picture taking, Sharon set about massacre after slaughter of Palestinians to provoke Palestinians into giving him more of what what he needed most; More dead Jews. { working class }
And then using that excuse for more land-grabbing in the West Bank, with the usual bulldozing of Palestinian families.
Without dead Jews, Israel would be out-of-business.
And with Israel out of all of its businesses, the world could return to decency and be at peace.
Rhonda Holman’s contribution to shoddy journalism:
” Nobody trusts Iran’s assurances about its reasons for restarting its program to reprocess nuclear fuel — or doubts Iran’s willingness to use nuclear weapons against Israel. So the goal must be to stop Iran now,”
First: the term “nobody” is a lie.
There are plenty of people who trust Iran to only to have the means to defend itself, and generate electricity in the meanwhile.
Second: She carefully inserts to word “doubts” then takes-off on ” Iran’s “willingness” to use nuclear weapons against Israel.
The key word here is “willingness”
Rhonda is trying to “spin” us into a very unwise action, the results which could easily destroy our country.
Bad Idea….Bad Journalism.
The problem is Israel. Remove Israel and the problem goes away.
Oil producers are not our problem, those who insist we attack them are.
Osama Bin Laden offered a truce to the killing.
Why won’t the United States explore that option?
If “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” is true, then why are we negociating with “terrorists” in Iraq right now?
Could it be the Bush is a G-d liar?
Bush being a G-d liar is the only truth in the White House.
That is so sad.
Don’t hold your breath expecting the UN to effect any positive change regarding this situation. Has it ever had any real influence in any political crisis?It’s an ineffective organization run by ineffective people. John Bolton’s appointment was a joke, just another example of how Bush delegates responsibility to the most inadequate people.
Rhonda Holman’s contribution to shoddy journalism aside, let us evaluate Iran with the light of some reasonable truth.
First: Iran is our major supplier of crude oil which runs our economy.
Second: Iran has not cut supplies as it well should, after being continuously threatened by that G-d Bush and his cronies of Nazis known these days as Neoconservatives, PNACers, G-d Zionist Jews and assorted pseudo intellectual neanderthal garbage, which hangs-out in the White House.
Iran needs to defend itself and has a right to do so, especially from the likes of that G-d crazy Bush and his bunch of nutcases.
Why they haven’t cut us off from oil is a wonder, as hard as Israel has been trying to piss them off. They have shown the type of restraint which is part of being a nuclear power.
Iran deserves to have nuclear power, Irsael isn’t mature enough to be trusted with a country, nevermind weapons period.
Third: Iran want Israel moved out of Arab land, after all the trouble Israel has caused it’s no wonder.
Iran suspects the Holocaust is a fraud and should be investigated and if it wasn’t a fraud, Israel would not be so busy trying to make any investigation or suggestion against the law. Today in Austria it is unlawful to suggest that the Holocaust in not true.
What absolute nonsense not to be able to discuss something. Pure nonsense.
Unless you have something to hide.
The so-called European Countries “clamoring” about denouncing Iran for having a nuclear program is coming from countries where Bush has either offered to kill their leaders or offered to cut-off money they receive from the United States.
What counties won’t do for money.
An Arab letter writer makes sense:
“Nuclear Row”
“That Iran stands accused of violating a set of imaginary obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes once again to show how the US, along with a few other governments whose support it has bought, coaxed or coerced, can bend the world to its will. The hysteria about the dangers of an alleged Iran nuclear-weapons program rests on misrepresentations and outright lies. The need for Iran to develop a robust nuclear technology is not something that the clerics who govern Iran today thought up. Long before they came to power, the Shah had planned and begun to build Iran’s nuclear infrastructure with the help of the same West.
It made no sense then, as it does not now, for Iran to burn millions of barrels of oil annually in order to produce electricity when much greater economic gain can be obtained from selling the oil. Although it is true that Iran is rich in oil and gas, they are finite resources and, given the pace of Iran’s economic development, will be used up within two to five decades. With a population of about 70 million, projected to be more than 105 million in 2050, Iran has no choice but to seek access to more diversified and secure sources of energy. Availability of electricity to 46,000 villages now, compared to 4,400 villages 25 years ago, illustrates the fast-growing demand for more energy. To satisfy such growing demands, Iran or anyone else can’t rely exclusively on fossil energy. Since the Iranian national economy is still dependant on oil revenue, it can’t allow the ever-increasing domestic demand to affect the revenues from the oil export.
The argument that Iran produces a lot of oil and gas and so needs no nuclear power is spurious. The United States produces more oil and gas than Iran does and yet the US president has stated repeatedly that nuclear power is an important part of the American quest for energy independence.”
Steven Spielberg’s Munich is absolutely brilliant.
And it explains why the Zionist Jews are so upset with him.
Spielberg demonstrates how it is cheaper just to kill someone and claim it was a “terrorist” or “bomber” or “planner” or “triggerman” or “organizer” or “number 2 man” or whatever name you wish to put on him.
You can buy a “clean name” which is anybody who was out-of-pocket and does not have an alibi.
No one can be in two places at the same time, so your target must be “clean,” not guilty, just “clean.”
That’s where Ariel Sharon dreamed-up the term “suspected terrorist”
It’s cheaper to kill him than to track-down the actual person.
Even at that, it cost the American taxpayer, who pays for all these murders, 1 million dollars for each one killed. That’s the cost of finding a “clean” body.
There are organizations whose only work is to find a “patsy.”
That’s all they do.
Leave it to the Zionist Jews to figure a “cheaper way.”
Bush just bombs a houseful of “suspected terrorists,” then claims he got as many as he wants.
Who is to say any different?
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”-H. L. Mencken
News from Al-Jaseera that that G-dBush wanted to blow-up.
“Pentagon insider gets 12 years”
Saturday 21 January 2006, 9:14 Makka Time, 6:14 GMT
“A Pentagon expert on Iran, who leaked classified information to an Israeli diplomat and a pro-Israeli lobby, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.Lawrence Franklin, an analyst in the office of the secretary of defence, pleaded guilty in October to sharing the information and to having classified documents at his home, actions provoked by his concern over the perceived threat from Iran.
Franklin had faced a prison sentence of up to 25 years but his term was reduced by district judge T S Ellis because of the defendant’s cooperation and it could be cut further he helps with the case against two remaining defendants scheduled for trial in April, a condition of his plea bargain.
Ellis said: “The defendant did not seek to hurt the United States. He thought he was helping to bring certain information to the attention of the security council.”
Personal frustration
Franklin did not speak at Friday’s sentencing, but said at his plea hearing in October that he was motivated by frustration with US policy in the Middle East when he gave classified information to Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon and lobbyists, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) between 2002 and 2004.
Since that time concerns over Iran have been heightened due to Tehran’s plans for nuclear research.
Franklin admitted that he met periodically with Rosen and Weissman and discussed classified information, including information about potential attacks on US troops in Iraq.
He said he believed that Rosen and Weissman’s contacts on the security council could help advance a tougher stance against Iran.
The 12-year, 7-month sentence imposed was on the low end of federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had said a sentence within the guidelines was appropriate.”
Why has AIPAC not be declared an enemy of the United States and either jailed or deported?
Why is AIPAC allowed to operate as a Lobby, bribe our Congress, write legislation and have unlimited access to top-secret documents.
AIPAC is not a Lobby, it is an agent of a enemy of the United States, with agents working in the Pentagon, congress, and the White House.
Zionist Jew caught on videotape
A Swedish art exhibit that used a pool of blood-like dye to commemorate a Palestinian bombing two years ago was knocked down by the Israeli ambassador in full view of a television camera.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2EC0A028-5BA1-4961-9DB1-DBC2207F8DA4.htm
They’re losing.
Iran is a better country than Israel.
They’re all crazy, Ed. Like Nixon said, “There is nothing we can do for those people, we need to leave them alone”. I’d be all for cutting support off to Israel. We need to stay home and use our money to develop alternatives to fossil fuels, rather than throwing it away trying to control the Middle East so we can have the oil.
Israel was created in a peaceful and legal process by the United Nations from land, the Ottoman empire, lost by the Turks in WW1, when they lost the war.
During the entire period of recorded history “Palestine” was never ruled by so called “Palestinians”, the name adopted today by the Moslem residents of the Holy Land. The rule of the various Moslem Caliphates, which was a foreign rule, extended for a period of 432 years – Jewish rule of “Palestine” extended over a period of over 2000 years. There were no palestinians living in the land, because there were no Palestinians. The Arabs living in the area considered themselves Syrians.
In 1948, eight Arab countries started a war of annihilation against the Jews. They outnumbered the Jewish citizens of Israel, but failed in their attempt. Thus was born the 775 thousand Arab refugees. The Arab refuge problem was caused by the Arabs, not the Jews. If the Arabs had not started the war, there wouldn’t have been any refugees.
Between 1949 and 1954, 800,000 jews were forced from the land they had occupied for thousands of years by Arabs who were seeking nothing less than revenge for the defeat of the Arabs by the Jews. The Jews were forced to flee at gunpoint in most cases from Syria, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Moracco, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.
The thing people should realize is the Jewish refugees were allowed to settle in Israel; the Arab refugees were denied citizenship by all arab countries except Syria. Makes one wonder about the whole Muslem identity thing.
An arab country was deeded by the same United Nations mandate that created Israel. The people of the area choose to call the country Palestine. The refugee problem, refered to as the Palestine refugees of Gaza, was created by the Arab nations that attacked Israel, not Israel.
It seems to me that the whole argument against Zionism falls flat on it’s face when the truth about the past is revealed. If the Arabs had not attacked Israel in 1948, the problems in the middle east would not be what they are today. The blame falls on the Arab states, not Israel.
Put that in your hookah and smoke it!
“Walker the halfwit” puts out the standard Zionist-line. No truth, just “the line.” The “justification”
A nightmare of massacres created the Zionist Jew grip on the land and the cruelty of today is the same as it has always been.
The rewritten history of Dir Yassin tells it all. Why rewrite It? why call Palestinians “terrorists?” Why the need? Why the need for a “cover-up?”
Web pages are dedicated to Dire Yassin never happening. The problem with that is the diaries of the soldiers who did the massacring are kept Jerusalem.
Drop dead Walker, you useless POS.
JM
Ed can’t seem to accept the fact that if arabs were not busy trying to wipe Israel off the map that there would be peace in the middle east.
I guess it’s to logical for such a brilliant mind, or for one to filled with hate to reason properly.
Man, turn-on the lights and here comes the roaches.
Hold still while I go get the can of Raid.
Scurry,Scurry,Scurry,Scurry.
Squirt,Squirt.
I love it when “they” come up with the feeble argument that there was no such place as Palestine, therefore there are no Palestinians, and yet in their next breath they call them Palestinians.
Everyday in Jewish newspapers it’s Palestinians this, and Palestinians that. No such thing as a Palestinian? Get your story straight, halfwit.
Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.
Roach lips,I never called Palestinians terrorists. Read my post.
You can slap a moron such as yourself with the truth all day, and they will continue to spout the Moslem hard core line that Israel is the problem.
Anybody with a modicum of intelligence knows that the Arab world will not rest until Israel is wiped off the face of the earth. Iran is the country that plans on making that happen with nuclear weapons. Their leader seems to think he has a cell phone linked to God, and that Armageddon is here and is supposed to be started by him. And it’s Israels’ fault? I’m thinking you need to suck on that roach can you’re carrying around yourself.
“I love it when “they” come up with the feeble argument that there was no such place as Palestine, therefore there are no Palestinians, and yet in their next breath they call them Palestinians.”
Read my post, idiot. Palestine was created in 1947 by the same mandate that created Israel. It was created as an arab state and named Palestine by the arabs (mostly Syrians) that resided there. Sheesh…is that all you can do: try to change history?
What the Hell do you know about anything. Nothing. You’d like to know something, but “Big Ralph” doesn’t like you.
So Iran wants a nuclear program…..weapon related or otherwise. Um So what?
Imagine you are an Iranian. Your goverment has been controlled off and on by the United States for the last 40 years. United States troops are to your north in Afghanistan and to your west in Iraq. Your enemy (Israel) of more than a thousand years has the full backing of that same United States and also the very weapons that United States seeks to deny you.
Hmmmm………what do ya do?
Aww but I screwed up.I asked the right wing to think.
Here let me put it in terms you can understand.
You live in a house on a bad street. You hate your neighbors and they hate you. It’s been that way as long as you can remember. Now some time ago a family moved in down the block. The same landlord that is always threatening you booted out the family in that house and gave it to people you just cannot stand. Not only that! They gave them guns and told them they’d be there on short notice to help if they had a problem…..any problem with you. Now they got in touch with YOU TOO. They told you you can’t have any guns. You don’t need them. You have no right to them. What’s more, they heard that your neighbors had some guns and they came and busted up their house.
What do ya do?
One honest assessment of Israel shows you that they are a collection of the world’s most rotten people doing the most ugly dishonest despicable things imaginable.
So, what do you do?… Finance them?
Now before you morons go into a tirade about how much I hate the Israelis, understand this; I do not hate the Israelis.
I do condemn what they do as being criminal and against the better interests of the United States and highly threatening the world with a possible nuclear war.
The Israelis must either be killed or subdued. Subdued is better with a Nuremberg-like Tribunal trail set-up to try their many crimes against the Palestinians, along with the illegal killings carried by the Mossad and others.
They need to be totally disarmed.
Justice needs to find all of these renegades.
Don’t hate the Israelis, Ed? Could have fooled me.I guess Hitlar didn’t “hate” them either.
“Hitler”, sorry about the typo!
17 Times. 17 resolutions passed by the UN, demanding that Sadam Hussein allow nuclear inspectors into his country.
17 times…and nothing.
Yep..the UN is one heck of an organization all right. It is fabulous about issuing proclamations and resolutions.
Ray,
Israel is in violation of over 70 UN resolutions, more than Iraq, Iran, Syria, and North Korea combined! If UN resolutions are so blasted important then WE should at the least impose complete economic sanctions against the worst offender, Israel!
V.L.R.B!!!
Ray, Saddam did allow inspectors. Just before we ran them out and started bombing. Hmmm….