Top Republican Senator Richard Lugar has warned the US and Israel
against the ramifications of any military adventurism against Iran
over the country’s nuclear energy program.
“We’re really going to have hell to pay. They will come back on us,
and the implications for the Israeli people here are very severe,”
said Lugar in a TV interview with Bloomberg.
The leading foreign-policy expert in the US Senate alluded to
Iran’s achievements in nuclear energy program and noted, “I understand
even some wanting to go to war immediately to stop it where it is and
so forth… But even within Israel, the reports are that the debate with
Netanyahu is very intense.”
Israel is stepping up the threats of carrying out a unilateral strike
against Iran’s nuclear energy facilities. However, the US opposes any
Israeli military action at the current juncture with presidential
elections less than two months away.
Tension between Israel and the United States over Iran's nuclear
energy program bubbled to the surface again earlier this month when
White House spokesman Jay Carney said that Washington insists there is
still “time and space” to resolve the issue over Iran’s nuclear
program.
US President Barack Obama said on September 23 that Israel’s call for
drawing a red line over Iran’s nuclear energy program is just “noise”
he tries to ignore.
On Oct 1, 3:48 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Got a link for this?
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> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM, plainolamerican
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> > Franklin Lamb noted that a study commissioned by the US Intelligence
> > Community earlier this year, has reached the conclusion that the
> > American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of
> > Zionist Israel.
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> > “It’s … an 82-page analysis [entitled: Preparing For A Post Israel
> > Middle East] that concludes that … Israel is currently the greatest
> > threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent
> > normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a growing
> > degree, the wider international community,” Lamb added.
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> > The IC-commissioned study clearly stated that Israel is grossly
> > interfering in the internal affairs of the United States through
> > spying and illegal US arms transfers.
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> > “This includes supporting more than 60 ‘front organizations’ and
> > approximately 7,500 US officials who do Israel’s bidding and seek to
> > dominate and intimidate the media and agencies of the US government
> > which should no longer be condoned.”
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> > According to the report, the analyst added, IC believes that Israel
> > leadership, with its increasing support of the 700,000 illegal
> > settlers on the occupied West Bank “is increasing out of touch with
> > the political, military and economic realities of the Middle East.”
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> > The IC report also argued that as a result of Tel Aviv’s current
> > brutal occupationist and belligerent policy, it “cannot be salvaged
> > any more than apartheid South Africa could be.”
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> > “…as American power and influence recedes, the US commitment to
> > belligerent oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend or
> > execute given paramount US national interests which include
> > normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries.”
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> > Advising the US government to avoid “entangling alliances that
> > alienate much of the world,” the IC noted that instead of getting
> > militarily involved in the Middle East on behalf of Israel, the US
> > should undertake “the repairing relations with Arab and Muslim
> > countries including the drastically curtained use of drone aircraft.”
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> > “US public opinion no longer supports funding and executing widely
> > perceived illegal US wars on Israel’s behalf. This view is
> > increasingly being shared by Europe, Asia and the International
> > public.”
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