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Netanyahu is Wrong on Iran, Says Election Rival
A chorus of opposition to Netanyahu's hawkish approach to Iran has surfaced in recent months
by John Glaser at antiwar.com
A key political opponent
of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized
his hawkish stance on Iran’s nuclear program on Saturday, making
the issue a central theme in the upcoming elections expected later this
year.
“It’s a most serious mistake to
turn the issue of defense against Iran into Israel’s biggest problem,”
said Shelly Yechimovitch, leader of the Labour party, calling the
Iranian issue a “problem of the entire world” and “the fact we take it
upon ourselves to be the spearhead is an error.”
Israeli elections are scheduled to take place in 2013, but
Netanyahu’s Likud party has put forth a motion to hold them in September
of this year. Some
have argued this is so that Netanyahu can win an early election and
have the freedom to maintain hawkish policies toward Iran regardless of
Israeli public opinion and at a point when Obama will be paralyzed in
his own reelection campaign.
Yechimovitch is only
the latest high-profile Israeli figure to criticize Netanyahu’s
approach to Iran.
Everyone from former Mossad chief Meir Dagan,
current
head of the Mossad Tamir Pardo,
Israel’s military chief Benny Gantz,
former prime minister Ehud Olmert,
leader of the Kadima party Tzipi
Livni,
and internal security chief Yuval Diskin have
come out to push back against Netanyahu.
They explain that:
(i) Iran is
not developing nuclear weapons,
(ii) that Iran doesn’t present an existential
threat,
(iii) and that war is not the appropriate answer.
(You can try, and overthrow the regime, using genuinely angry Iranians.........much more productive than going around killing hapless scientists some of whom are not even linked to the civilian nuclear programs...only creates "scientific martyrs" which accelerates scientific research and development in the country, if you follow Presstv.com over the last few years.
It is smarter to try and overthrow the entire regime if it is a source of genuine threats against the sum total of Israel's existence...otherwise policies based on whims and feelings....are not productive. A strike on Iran by 80 odd warplanes will have indeterminate consequences for Israel, and will legitimate and necessitate the weaponization of Iran's nuclear program, with other states in the Greater Middle East following suite DEFINITELY...Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan and so forth.
This will be stupid, supremely stupid. In a world where there is a trend towards less of these ghastly weapons.
An Iranian regime which is beholden to Israel, like the last Shah should be the main objective. It is far more productive in the long term, rather than being at permanent Jihad with a nation of 78 million people.
Powerful International Jews in the West may cheer and posture for war against Iran because it is fashionable, but their children do not serve in the IDF.
Israel must not merely struggle and exists purely through war and security.......Israel must try soft options in her neighborhood.
Israel must curtail and limit its over expansive foreign adventures)
(You can try, and overthrow the regime, using genuinely angry Iranians.........much more productive than going around killing hapless scientists some of whom are not even linked to the civilian nuclear programs...only creates "scientific martyrs" which accelerates scientific research and development in the country, if you follow Presstv.com over the last few years.
It is smarter to try and overthrow the entire regime if it is a source of genuine threats against the sum total of Israel's existence...otherwise policies based on whims and feelings....are not productive. A strike on Iran by 80 odd warplanes will have indeterminate consequences for Israel, and will legitimate and necessitate the weaponization of Iran's nuclear program, with other states in the Greater Middle East following suite DEFINITELY...Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan and so forth.
This will be stupid, supremely stupid. In a world where there is a trend towards less of these ghastly weapons.
An Iranian regime which is beholden to Israel, like the last Shah should be the main objective. It is far more productive in the long term, rather than being at permanent Jihad with a nation of 78 million people.
Powerful International Jews in the West may cheer and posture for war against Iran because it is fashionable, but their children do not serve in the IDF.
Israel must not merely struggle and exists purely through war and security.......Israel must try soft options in her neighborhood.
Israel must curtail and limit its over expansive foreign adventures)
Netanyahu’s apparent move to have early elections may be a sign that
his reelection is in jeopardy, and that will especially be the case if
his political and ideological opponents keep making his hysterical
positions on Iran the central issue.
Over obsession with one single idea must not overtake the essence of why, for whom, for what Israel exists.
Over obsession with one single idea must not overtake the essence of why, for whom, for what Israel exists.
