Netanyahu urges bold Israeli action on Iran nukes

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04739620.htm

Netanyahu urges bold Israeli action on Iran nukes


JERUSALEM, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Israel should take "bold and courageous" action against arch-foe Iran's nuclear programme, similar to its 1981 air strike on the main Iraqi atomic reactor, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The frontrunner to head Israel's right-wing Likud Party ahead of March 28 elections, Netanyahu has been drawing battle lines with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who last week voiced hope that foreign diplomacy would prevent Iran getting the bomb.

"It must be understood that Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear threat against Israel," Netanyahu told Israel Radio.

"I will pursue the legacy of (Prime Minister) Menachem Begin, who through a bold and courageous move did not allow a neighbour of Iran, Iraq, to develop such a threat. I believe that this is what Israel should do," he said.

Believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, Israel under Begin sent warplanes to bomb the Iraqi reactor in Osiraq in 1981. Saddam Hussein's quest for nuclear arms was driven underground until U.N. inspectors uncovered a secret programme a decade later.

[Scurrilous]

1. Iran says will respond with severity to Israeli actions

Full title: Iran says will respond with severity to Israeli actions on its nuclear program.

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"Responding to comments made by Israeli leaders on handling the Iranian nuclear threat, a spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said Sunday evening that his country will respond with severity to any Israeli actions against it.

"These are empty threats and prove that Israel is pulling the strings behind the scenes and is directing the international community to impose sanctions," the spokesman said."


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[occuserpens]

7. .

[teryang]

2. If futures markets don't move

...you'll know this is just hot air.

[IndianaGreen]

3. This is nothing more than election posturing by Bibi

Bibi is being challenged within the Likud, while Sharon's new party of Kadima is leading in the polls.

Bibi will not be the next PM!

[sabra]

4. "Bibi will not be the next PM!"

I hope you are right, the man scares me.

peace.

[Chicago Democrat]

5. I don't discuss that subject anymore...

Happy Chanuka!

[leesa]

6. These are the people that need to be stopped.

Israel has 200+ nuclear weapons pointed at all her neighbors and they aren't even allowed nuclear power plants.

[Pavulon]

9. Power plants to wipe israel "off the map"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051026/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_israel

Yeah why don't we just sell them some nukes. I'm sure they will do no harm...

[occuserpens]

8. New turn of the Iranian crisis: Netanyahu bluffs?

Situation changes fast, so I keep updating my blog on this: http://inplainview.monitor.us.tt/comm.ME.htm

[cantstandbush]

10. It's beyond belief what Israel is allowed to get away with. The US would

have bombed any other nation holding nukes and making such threats.

[gulfcoastliberal]

11. Like North Korea?

They have nukes and have said some bold words. So far, no bombs.

[Gyre]

12. The born-agains and the jews attempting to use each other

just has "disaster" written all over it.:(

Gyre

[barb162]

15. Whoa, Take a look at thread on David Duke farther down the page

KKK/ nazi types "teaming up" with Syrian leaders previously and currently has already been spelling disaster.

[Poll_Blind]

13. Be "bold and courageous". It'll take care of our problem. Until...

...Israelis realize, same as America, that they've chosen a very, very wrong path they deserve the full consequences of their actions.

PB

[occuserpens]

14. More updates on Haartez site

I just checked http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/653454.html They keep changing the article! Now it is some new version (Last update - 11:40 05/12/2005), it is heavily different from previous ones. So, my blog will be changed accordingly. Please, feel free to check

2005-12-04 New turn of the Iranian crisis: Netanyahu bluffs?