Israel is increasing her rhetorical battle with Iran, something I find extremely overdue:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, should bear in mind that his own country could also be destroyed, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday.
Peres said Iran was mocking the international community’s attempts to resolve the crisis over its nuclear ambitions and that the credibility of the United Nations Security Council was on the line.
In what Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described as a threat that must be taken seriously, Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be destroyed.
“They want to wipe out Israel … Now when it comes to destruction, Iran too can be destroyed [but] I don’t suggest to say an eye for an eye,” Peres told Reuters.
“Israel would defend itself under any condition but we don’t look upon it as an Iranian-Israeli conflict exclusively… [Iran] is basically a danger to the world, not just to us.”
I think it is important that Israel remind Iran and the world that if attacked, Israel will defend herself. I think it is extremely important that the image of the passive Jew remains embedded in history. It’s been extremely frustrating to see volley after volley of rhetoric from Iran’s nutjob president go practically unanswered. And the fact that it continues to be Peres — the apparent dove — answering, underscores the importance of the message. This is the second time in less than a week that Peres has warned Iran that Israel can do harm to them.
The Iranians would do well to pay attention.
Empty bluster from Peres. Same day, he practically commands Olmert to negotiate with Abbas despite Hamas holding the pursestrings and the “will” of the palestinians.
I would remember that Peres is one of the creaters of the “peace process” fiasco. I think that the Arabs consider his threats as valid as anything else that he has said.
Has anyone noticed that Iran’s oil wells are not that near to its major cities? Tabriz [heavily Kurdish] is the exception. What the relationship is between oil wells and nuclear facilities I do not know.
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the fact is I think this is first time Israel has resorted to real fighting words probably since 1993.And to think it was Peres who used the word “desroyed”
Let’s not forget that Peres is the father of Israel’s nuclear program. There’s a reason that he is the spokesperson on this issue.
I didn’t know that Peres was the Father of the Israeli bomb.
Learn something new everyday, isn’t that the line.
It might be wise for Israel to stage a test detonation someplace.
They’ll have to be test detonations for decades to come, if the elites have their way policy wise, for if we allow the mullahs to get the bomb, and EVEN IF THEY DON’T LEVEL whole cities, we’ll still be looking at a military standoff for decades to come, forcing the expenditure of HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, indeed TRILLIONS, on armaments.
And as the Cold War had its moments of high drama, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Yom Kippur, {which almost triggered a collision between the superpowers}, so too will this new cold war the elites deem it would be prudent to embark upon, instead of simply leveling the mullah’s nuclear pretensions.
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