Israelis overwhelmingly oppose war with Iran

[eridani]

So do most Americans and the security establishments of the US and Israel. yet the Mittster wants to join with Israeli neocons and go for it, the smarmy disgusting puke.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/289-134/11215-most-israeli-citizens-dont-want-a-war-with-iran

Time for a quiz question. Last week, who said Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak - Israel's prime minister and defence minister - "are misleading the public on the Iran issue" and making decisions "based on messianic feelings"? Was it (a) Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; (b) the Stop the War Coalition president, Tony Benn; or (c) the former Israeli spymaster Yuval Diskin?

It was (c). At a public meeting on Friday Diskin, former head of Shin Bet (Israel's MI5), described Netanyahu and Barak as "not fit to hold the steering wheel of power". He went on: "I have observed them from up close … They are not people who I, on a personal level, trust to lead Israel to an event on that scale and carry it off … They tell the public that if Israel acts, Iran won't have a nuclear bomb. This is misleading. Actually, many experts say that an Israeli attack would accelerate the Iranian nuclear race."

Diskin joins a long list of eminent members of the Israeli security establishment who have publicly voiced criticism of, and opposition to, their government's ultra-hawkish line on Iran. In fact, his astonishing attack on his former bosses came just 48 hours after the head of Israel's military, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, declared that the Iranian leadership had not yet made a decision to build nuclear weapons, that it was unlikely to go this "extra mile", and was composed of "very rational people". "Decisions must be made carefully out of historic responsibility but without hysteria," added Gantz in a not-too-subtle dig at his political masters.

[bluestateguy]

1. I actually think the American neo-cons want an Israel-Iran war the most

More than the Israeli people, more than the Israeli military and maybe even more than the Netanyahu government.

[anti-alec]

2. There is no need for war. Period.

War costs money that we don't have.

If Iran wants nuclear energy to power their own country, it's fine with me.

The obsession with Iran has gone too far.

Israelis said no, and I, as an American taxpayer say no as well.

Enough is enough.

[DCKit]

3. BushCo* would have done it, but they'd already sold us two wars...

that were failed before they began and will never pay for themselves, even if we did get the oil. The cost of guarding the wells, supply lines and ports ensures break-even, at best.

Our military is working for the 1%, not for national security. That alone should be enough to justify steep cuts, withdrawals, base closures and the end of imperialism.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R