Most members of Israeli defense cabinet favor independent action against nuclearized Iran

Debka ^ | December 9, 2007, 6:01 PM (GMT+02:00)

[Perdogg]

The special defense and foreign affairs cabinet meeting of Dec. 12 did not linger on the dispute between Israel and the US over its last National Intelligence Estimate, which absolves Iran from running a nuclear weapons program from 2003. After briefings from intelligence chiefs, the ministers focused on what to do next. Most objected to letting Israel’s hands be tied by the Bush administration’s apparent waiver of its military option against Iran.

They began exploring how to restructure and reorient the missions of Israel’s military from now on and, secondly, how to adapt the IDF’s strategy to the challenges on its multiple fronts - Syria, Lebanon, Hizballah and the Gaza Strip’s Palestinian terror groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad - in the light of the emerging understanding among the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

[familyop]

Disguise yourself as another nation, Israel, then destroy only Iran’s oil facilities—all of them. ;-)

Or maybe an anti-mullah group would do it in return for more money and power. It wouldn’t be any worse than what anyone else is doing.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Debka wrote the report about what happened at the Dec. 12 meeting ... three days ahead of time?

[Godwin1]

Well, since they were unable to defeat Hezbollah—a gang of bully-boys in dirty bathrobes—it’s unlikely Iran has much to worry about. Divided and weakened—as are we—by defeatist liberalism, this ain’t our fathers’ Israel.

[ANGGAPO]

I suspect, given the Washington malaise on the subject, the Israelis should go it alone. I am not convinced that we wouldn’t throw them under the bus.

[SJackson]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Debka site :

The special defense and foreign affairs cabinet meeting of Dec. 9 did not linger on the dispute between Israel and the US over its last National Intelligence Estimate, which absolves Iran from running a nuclear weapons program from 2003.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Debka site :

The special defense and foreign affairs cabinet meeting of Dec. 9 did not linger on the dispute between Israel and the US over its last National Intelligence Estimate, which absolves Iran from running a nuclear weapons program from 2003.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sorry about the double post....