- Just yesterday, the New York Times had a lead story about
Israeli planning to possibly "go it alone" in an attack on Iran
if the US were not to "succeed" in its diplomatic efforts to
get Iran to "stop" it's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear
weapon capability.
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- Aside from the fact that there is no hard evidence that
Iran is trying to make a nuclear bomb or even to refine uranium to obtain
nuclear-grade material, the paper ignored one crucial point: Israel cannot
"go it alone" in any strike on Iran, since its key weapons--F15
and F-16 fighter-bombers--are supplied to it, and kept flying, thanks to
the equipment and spare parts provided by the United States. Indeed the
entire Israeli military machine is largely financed and armed by the US.
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- No Israeli military effort cannot go forward without
the full backing of the US, and to say otherwise is to simply perpetrate
a fraud on the public, implying that Israel is an independent actor on
the world stage. It is not.
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- Another example of warmongering came in an interview
by Terri Gross on her program "Fresh Air," which I believe is
the most widely syndicated and popular program on National Public Radio,
produced here in Philadelphia at the studios of NPR affiliate WHYY...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to:
- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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