By Mark for the TIB Network:
From the Sunday Times:
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme.
The inner cabinet of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave “initial authorisation” for an attack at a private meeting last month on his ranch in the Negev desert.
The plans have been discussed with American officials who are said to have indicated provisionally that they would not stand in Israel’s way if all international efforts to halt Iranian nuclear projects failed.
Tehran claims that its programme is designed for peaceful purposes but Israeli and American intelligence officials — who have met to share information in recent weeks — are convinced that it is intended to produce nuclear weapons.
Silvan Shalom, the Israeli foreign minister, said he believed that diplomacy was the only way to deal with the issue. But he warned: “The idea that this tyranny of Iran will hold a nuclear bomb is a nightmare, not only for us but for the whole world.”
Since the US is not taking the forefront in holding Iran to account (remember the thing I said in the previous Iran post about trust but verify?), then let Israel save the civilized world again by taking out the nuke ambitions of these Islamofascists. And what will the Israelis probably get? More death, more terror. However, they see the threat. They realize it is like Iraq in the early 80s all over again. And they will ride in and be the black hat brigade while we loudly condemn it but will thank them for it later. I am not waiting till later. Thank you, Israel, in advance. You have permission to begin bombing run....yep, Euroweenies, I am saying send in the bombers....sometimes a nation's gotta do what a nation's gotta do....
