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Israeli DM: 'We Can't Depend on US Concerning Iran’
CBN ^ | Wednesday, March 19, 2014 | CBN

Posted on 03/19/2014 9:26:06 AM PDT by xzins

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israel cannot depend on the U.S. to take the lead against the Iranian nuclear program, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday.

His remarks came just as the P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany) are about to begin the next round of talks on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The U.S. should be leading the campaign against Iran, Ya'alon said, but instead it's making deals with it. Israel will do what it must to defend itself.

"We thought that the one who needs to lead the campaign against Iran is the U.S.," the defense minister said during remarks at Tel Aviv University earlier this week, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported.

"If we wished others would do the work for us, it wouldn't be done soon and therefore in this matter, we have to behave as if we can only rely on ourselves," Ya'alon said.

U.S. influence around the world is declining, he said, as the crisis in the Ukraine shows. Russian President Vladimir Putin seems unimpressed with President Obama's warnings.

"Weakness certainly does not pay in the world," he said. "No one can replace the U.S. as the world's policeman. I hope the U.S. will come to its senses."


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: china; france; germany; iran; israel; lebanon; obama; obamasfault; russia; syria; unitedkingdom; us; waronterror; yaalon
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To: DuncanWaring
“The barbarians on the other end of the BlackBerry have a clue.
And their clue doesn't end well for Western Civilization.”

For me, the more overt all of this becomes, the better I'm starting to feel. The left has been able to hide the facts, and rationalize the flaws in their ideology, but reality is starting to intervene. I honestly feel better about the future now than I have in a long time.

41 posted on 03/19/2014 1:44:58 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: xzins

The Russians led and supplied Israel’s enemies toward the Six Day War, just as they have more recently led and supplied Iran. As for our own U.S.A., the most influential policial folks behind both parties are balking, just as their predecessors did before World War 1 and World War 2. Subsequent moves of commie/fascist foreign enemies are already telegraphed and obvious again.


42 posted on 03/19/2014 1:52:16 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

-——Peace ain’t going to happen.-——

Actually, a sate of peace exists now. Hamas fires some rockets that do no harm and are in effect pretending to be belligerent.

Both sides are satisfied with the status quo. That equals a state of non war and that is by definition peace.


43 posted on 03/19/2014 1:53:40 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Zenjitsuman
"we are bankrupt from liberals letting half the country live off food stamps, welfare payments, unemployment for 2 years and programs like Obamacare.

Obama has added 7 trillion to the national debt.
"

We've been headed this way for about 40 years, and both parties have continued welfare programs of many kinds, most of those social programs devised as social engineering efforts to scatter traditional families and prevent domestic competition from rising again.

As you know, the economy is not doing fine. We're weak for lack of manufacturing and lack of our older American nationalism that was based on good deeds (as contrasted to the kind of nationalism without a good cause in other countries). Most of the parasites receive large incomes while sitting on their rear ends and producing nothing but more trouble.

Most kinds of independent work (owner-building, small manufacturing shops) have been outlawed in effect, with many extortionate fees and mazes of regulations ostensibly for purposes of property values, the environment and animal worship. The families of men who work with their minds and their hands have been the targets for a long time now.

Commies and fascists have more in common than not. The only difference between the two forms of government is that one seeks to own all resources and businesses. The other only seeks to control the resources and businesses, in essence, to own them. Both eventually try to enrich a "professional," government-linked class while starving and persecuting labor. Both villainize other groups with exaggerated, false gossip and accusations. In effect, they're the same.

We're seeing a decline that was started by a campaign of hatred against common American men and the legalistic weakening destruction of their families. It's a paradigm of false rumors used by those of more recent decent from Europe to rob those of many more generations of American descent. Business, academia and politics are rotten. Instead of the more dignified, honest, American political speech, we see the hysterical screeching of commie/fascist hatred from foreign influences only two or three generations removed from their lands of iniquity.

Effete folks of European philosophical influences only have a little time remaining in this declining economy to do all that they're going to do to in trying to rid the U.S.A of real Americans. We have the ingenuity of of our moral heritage and a willingness to work for ourselves and our own kind, while the new political class has nothing more than...well, we see that all over the place. The problem is more transparent to more true Americans than imagined by propandists and their sponsors.

Have fun. Enjoy the slide.


44 posted on 03/19/2014 2:35:08 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Maybe it's because we are finally coming to our senses that the days of serving as the world's policeman is coming to an end before the job bankrupts us and bleeds us to death.

While that may be all fine and dandy, the real reason is that the POS in the White Hut hates this country and will do anything to undermine it.

45 posted on 03/19/2014 2:35:25 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The Gubment Has No Legitimacy. It needs to be Removed!)
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To: familyop
As for our own U.S.A., the most influential political folks behind both parties are balking, just as their predecessors did before World War 1 and World War 2

I see nothing with balking. To the extent that policy was followed, it served us well. Common sense tells us that if there's war it is far better to enter it last after the other powers are bloodied and weakened. Americans need not feel guilty that we are blessed with the geographical separation that allows us a measure of safety the rest of the world has.

46 posted on 03/19/2014 2:45:37 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: familyop

The last sentance should read that we have a measure of safety the rest of the world does NOT have.


47 posted on 03/19/2014 2:48:47 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
"I see nothing with balking. To the extent that policy was followed, it served us well. Common sense tells us that if there's war it is far better to enter it last after the other powers are bloodied and weakened."

Our enemies aren't bloodied or weakened, while our leaders in business, academia and bipartisan politics support them in their military buildups. The fascists and commies had built up and weakened our allies in the previous world wars, before we were involved.

The folks running the show now don't care about national security. They only try to prevent trade conflicts with foreign trading partners, prevent high freight fuel prices, artificially prop up the dollar internationally and prevent domestic competition with false pretenses about property values, feminism, environmentalism and animal "rights."

"Americans need not feel guilty that we are blessed with the geographical separation that allows us a measure of safety the rest of the world has."

Foreign ICBM buildups should be common knowledge. The trend of massive international slavery interchange, oil security in antagonist nations and misplaced loyalties in economic, academic and political leadership also work against our former geographical advantage.

Big shots are running the show. The rest of us are effectively disenfranchised by many who are descended from Europe within only the past few generations (European left-right politics of fascism instead of American politics). That is common knowledge. We'll see how it works out.


48 posted on 03/19/2014 3:23:30 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop
Big shots are running the show. The rest of us are effectively disenfranchised

We're generally just along for the ride.

49 posted on 03/19/2014 3:37:42 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: xzins
D'oh! Contrary to that Israeli Defense Minister, I don't think the U.S. will come to its senses. If the U.S. had its senses, then they wouldn't have elected who they elected in 2012 -- or 2008 for that matter.
50 posted on 03/19/2014 7:39:47 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: dfwgator

“And all you folks in Europe thinking the US will save them from Putin, guess again.”

Hell, he won’t even save the US from them. I wouldn’t doubt that he would, should Putin get growly towards us, allow them to annex part of the US as payment for our ‘taking’ Alaska. He must be ‘fair’ don’t you know!


51 posted on 03/20/2014 10:40:31 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

AMEN!

Let the world learn to run themselves. Too many of our troops are overseas, when they belong at home and I am tired of our troops being used as fodder for the latest fashionable cause.


52 posted on 03/20/2014 11:14:45 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: xzins

Several decades ago, when the Israelis were serious about defending their country, they elected a serious prime minister — Menachem Begin.

Without fanfare, Mr. Begin did what was necessary to defend Israel. In 1981, he demolished Iraq’s nuclear reactor before Saddam Hussein could rain WMDs on Tel Aviv; and he negotiated a serious peace treaty through personal diplomacy with the president of Egypt in a matter of months, instead of engaging in a futile 20-plus-year ‘’peace process’’ with terrorists like Yassir Arafat under the auspices of foolish American Nobel-Peace-Prize-aspirants like Bill Clinton and John Kerry.

Today, it’s clear that the Israelis are not serious about the defense of their country, or they would not have chosen a prime minister who is the opposite of Menachem Begin.

Benjamin Netanyahu has not demolished Iran’s nuclear facilities, he’s only talked about doing it. The most courageous thing he’s done to date as the Iranian centrifuges pile up is stand before the U.N. General Assembly with a red magic marker drawing a line on a map.

And far from refusing to declare, as Menachem Begin did, that the West Bank — Judea and Samaria — are non-negotiable, he’s always been ready to allow himself to be yelled at by American ‘’diplomats’’ like Hillary Clinton eager to persuade him to sit down and give away pieces of his country to Yassir Arafat’s terrorist successor.

When — if — the Israelis decide to get serious again about their national defense, they will elect a new, serious prime minister like Menachem Begin. Until then, it’s hopeless for Americans who support Israel to do anything except pray — an activity that has become very rare in the holy land.


53 posted on 03/20/2014 4:37:50 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: xzins

If we do not come to the aid of Israel, we will suffer the same demise.

Isaiah 60:12

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you(Israel) shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.


54 posted on 03/20/2014 8:53:48 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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