America Must Reject Netanyahu’s War Cry on Iran --- not enough ... imprison that pos for treason then stick him in a hole for eternity.
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 9:29:27 PM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > > > *"To begin, Iran has not sought a nuclear weapon > <http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-iranian-threat-that-never-was/>, > and the country’s leader declares such weapons contrary to Islam. (For > details, see Gareth Porter’s well-documented Manufactured Crisis: The > Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1935982338/futuoffreefou-20>.) For > a quarter century, Netanyahu has warned that an Iranian bomb is imminent. > But U.S. > <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/04/politics.topstories3> and > Israeli > <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/leaks-netanyahu-misled-iran-nuclear-programme-guardian-iran-nuclear-speech-2012-150218165622065.html> > > intel say he’s wrong." *March 4, 2015 > > *America Must Reject Netanyahu’s War Cry on Iran *by Sheldon Richman > > Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington this week to > prepare the American people for war against Iran. Backed by American > neoconservatives, the Israel lobby, and assorted other war hawks, Netanyahu > insists that Iran intends to build a nuclear weapon and thus is an > “existential threat” to Israel. He has no confidence that President Obama > will negotiate an agreement that once and for all will end Iran’s alleged > nuclear ambitions. > > Thus the prime minister’s objective is nothing less than to wreck the > current negotiations and push America into a regime-changing war against > Iran. > > Netanyahu’s narrative is a fabric of lies and omissions. > > To begin, Iran has not sought a nuclear weapon > <http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-iranian-threat-that-never-was/>, > and the country’s leader declares such weapons contrary to Islam. (For > details, see Gareth Porter’s well-documented *Manufactured Crisis: The > Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare* > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1935982338/futuoffreefou-20>.) > For a quarter century, Netanyahu has warned that an Iranian bomb is > imminent. But U.S. > <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/04/politics.topstories3> and > Israeli > <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/leaks-netanyahu-misled-iran-nuclear-programme-guardian-iran-nuclear-speech-2012-150218165622065.html> > > intel say he’s wrong. > > Iran nevertheless wants to reassure the world so that crushing economic > sanctions will be lifted. Hence, the current negotiations. (Iran made > similar overtures before.) > > Iran’s government is a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty > (NPT), subjecting it to inspections by the International Atomic Energy > Agency, which can account for every atom of uranium. > > Members of the NPT are free to have a civilian nuclear-power program, > including the ability to enrich uranium, and Iran insists that it be > treated as other members are. Nevertheless, for decades the U.S. government > has exerted pressure to stop Iran from having a civilian nuclear industry. > When Iran a few years ago agreed to forgo enrichment and obtain enriched > uranium from abroad, the U.S. government blocked the deal. Netanyahu and > his American allies oppose Iran’s having any enrichment capability. > > Moreover and this ignored fact seems rather important Israel is the > *nuclear > monopolist of the Mideast* > <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal>. > > That hardly anyone talks about this is at once remarkable and unsurprising. > But think about it: Israel has hundreds of nuclear warheads some of them > on invulnerable submarines capable of surviving a first strike. Even if > Iran built one warhead, it would be useless except as a deterrent against > Israel and the country’s rulers know it. Israel has not signed the NPT > and does not submit to IAEA inspections. It is a nuclear rogue state. > > As Gideon Rose, editor of *Foreign Affairs* magazine (published by the > establishment Council on Foreign Relations), said on CNN recently, Israel > could “destroy Iran this afternoon.” If there is an existential threat, > Israel is the source and Iran is the target. > > How does Netanyahu’s alarmist narrative look now? > > It is erroneously believed that Iran has threatened to attack Israel. In > fact, Israel and the United States have been waging war economic, covert, > proxy, and cyber against Iran for decades. Since the repressive > U.S.-backed Iranian regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a close friend of > Israel, was overthrown in 1979, Israel’s leaders have openly rattled sabers > at the Islamic Republic. American presidents have repeatedly declared that > “all military options are on the table” which would include nuclear > weapons. The United States helped Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fight a war > of aggression against Iran in the 1980s, providing him with components for > chemical weapons and satellite intelligence. Why wouldn’t Iran feel > threatened by the United States and its close ally Israel? Even so, Iran > has not threatened to attack Israel or America. > > Netanyahu would have us believe the Iranian regime wants to exterminate > all Jews. But that’s hard to square with the continuous presence > <http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/pass-iran-quiz.html> of a Jewish > community in Iran today the largest in the Muslim Middle East for two > thousand years. Iran’s steadfast opposition to Israel’s institutionalized > injustice against the Palestinians is not anti-Semitism. > > So why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran > reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate *seriously *with the > Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on > Palestinians’ land instead. Moreover, Israel’s rulers oppose any > development such as an Iranian-U.S. detente that could diminish > Israel’s U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. > > War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish > American allies the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and > ISIS must be repudiated. > > > > http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/america-must-reject-netanyahus-war-cry-iran/ > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
