Opinions of Peter Belmont
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| USA should not support proposed Israeli attack on Iran |
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by Peter A. Belmont / 2012-08-19
M J Rosenberg tells us that: The only [USA political] consensus is that Israel has the right to exist in peace, with U.S. aid to guard its security. But that is it.” We desire to attack now because [1] we desire to attack Iran simply to please ourselves, and without threat of attack by Iran, for the sheer pleasure of making war, and [2] because if we wait too long to do so, it will no longer be possible or will no longer be a sheer pleasure, because Iran will by then have armed itself with nukes and will therefore fight back against any attack by Israel more forcefully than it would dare to do today.Simply put, Israel is bloody-minded and wants to attack Iran without any provocation whatever, but wants to do it before Iran obtains nuclear weapons, which might spoil the fun. Looking at the USA’s unprovoked attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, we might way that Israel’s plans are—indeed and sadly—cut from the same cloth as the imperial policy of the government of the USA. But if we were to ask the people of the USA whether they approve those two disastrous and immensely costly USA wars and whether they wish the USA to begin a third such war (this time with likely large repercussions on the price of oil), I think their answer would be an overwhelming “No”. Just as Israel’s people and even most of its military and intelligence are opposing an Israeli attack on Iran. Imperialism is a project of the ruling class, not of the people. |
Comments:
| SylviaW 2012-09-27 | |
| "How does that imagined scenario threaten Israel? Only in making an Israeli attack on Iran less likely. Because Iran would never use its (alleged or putative) nukes against Israel unless Israel first attacked it with nukes." Based on what evidence? You just know that in your heart? Iran never threatened Israel? Iran doesn't have that kind of technology? You are better informed than the Israeli, French, British and American intelligence services combined? Than the AEIU? Pray tell. |
| SylviaW 2012-08-22 | |
| The Sinai Campaign in 1956 with France and England was launched with US knowledge. The US intervened to stop it. What we have here is similar to the June 1967 war, when the US told Israel not to strike first. Israel, as we know, didn\'t heed that advice. As an Israeli, and like most of us, I do not wish American interference because I do not trust members of the Obama administration not to tip off the Iranians would Israel attack first. Shimon Peres has a different opinion. I assume that having taken part in the 1956 campaign, he is - as you Americans would call the behavior - \"gun shy\". I am puzzled by your certainties. Where do they come from? \"Because Iran would never use its (alleged or putative) nukes against Israel unless Israel first attacked it with nukes.\" Or \"Simply put, Israel is bloody-minded and wants to attack Iran without any provocation whatever, but wants to do it before Iran obtains nuclear weapons, which might spoil the fun.\" So, when Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last Wednesday that he was certain \"the fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from the landscape of geography,” according to the Iranian Mehr Agency, he was lying according to you? |
| pabelmont 2013-03-31 | |
| Sylvia W, thanks for your comments. It is history that Iran has never started wars in modern time and Israel has started many. Also, Israel is widely believed to have many nuclear bombs and Iran has (it is also widely believed) NONE at present. Friends of Israel like to think of Israel as besieged; all others think of Israel as the jailer of the Palestinians, illegal occupier and constant usurper of West Bank, Gaza, and Golan, and the very-likely-to-attack threatener of Lebanon, Iran, Gaza, and West Bank. So Some Iranian leaders "sound off" a bit. So what? And do you think that without a huge provocation Iran would attack Israel (and thus the Haram ash-Sharif) with a nuclear bomb? It sounds far-fetched to me. |
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