Gen. Uzi Dayan said that Galant, our new War Chief, should prepare for war because:
(1) The USA is leaving Iraq and no one what will happen: it can break up following ethnic and religious lines, it can turn a religious subordinate of Iran, it can hold and become a secular counterforce to Iran. Just in case, Saudi Arabia is building a 800 km border fence.
(2) There are a million Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
(3) Egypt is closing its Mubarak Sr. era.
(4) Lebanon political situation is fragile and civil war may start any moment.
(5) Turkey has chosen to join the anti-American Iran-Syria axis
(6) The Middle East, as a whole, is fast becoming warmer and drier.
(7) Iran is arming itself with nuclear ballistic missiles.
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Here is some good news:
"Blasts hit secret Iranian missile launching-pad for US, Israeli targets"
http://debka.com/article/9087/
During what period was it possible for Israel NOT to be prepared for war? Israel is always surrounded by enemies of one sort or another. Iraq under Saddam was no friend. Jordan has always been filled with refugees. Lebanon has been unstable for 30+ years. The only factor here that might truly change the strategic balance is a nuclear armed Iran and even then, everywhere else in the world this has led to stalemate and Cold War because the protagonists were too afraid to start a shooting war against each other.
K
Thanks rashkov. There is a hidden war already going on, which also includes information and disinformation. I am sure that we are fighting.
K
During the last three years we have had relative peace. It is so easy to get used to this that it is necessary to remind us that things are very uncertain.
I don't think "MAD" is on the agenda between Israel and Iran.
"Mad", maybe, but not "MAD".
Anon.
I wish I could agree w. Anon. Ahmedinijad is a religious fruitcake with apocalyptic fantasies. We have seen that Moslems are willing to act as suicide bombers in order to receive their 72 virgins (or is it raisins?). I wouldn't trust him with my car keys, no less nuclear weapons.
K
Virgins. Who would kill himself for a handful of raisins?
Many scholars believe this is a misreading of the text and the correct translation of the word in the subject text is raisins or grapes. Can you imagine the terrorists' disappointment when they arrive in Paradise and get handed their grapes...here you go Mohammmed,1, 2.3...
K
Actually, K, I think we are of a mind. "MAD" controlled the superpowers in the Cold War, as enough people on both sides were in touch with reality, and the disincentive of mutually assured destruction really worked.
With Iran's present government,I do not think this applies, and I'm sure you don't either. Correct me if I am wrong, but the Jewish faith is not as big on the afterlife
as is Islam.
Anon.
I am no religious scholar but belief in the afterlife is a minor part of Jewish belief. Maimonides said that in the "world to come" people exist only as disembodied souls with higher awareness and there is no eating, drinking, sex, etc. But the main emphasis is on living righteously in this life and generally Jews do not concern themselves overly with the afterlife. In the Jewish literature there is nothing like Dante's inferno with its detailed depiction of Hell.
K
Presumably, Hell is the here and now.
Anon.
In the 20th century , humans built Hells of their own that were far worse than anything Dante conceived of ... factories for killing people, prison mines in frozen wastelands, millions intentionally starved to death,entire cities consumed in a flash. No 14th century man could have imagined such Hells.. the Inferno is a picnic compared to 20th century reality.
K
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