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Titolo: Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack

Il regime "sionista" sta facendo di tutto per alzare la tensione tra 
Iran e USA e per costringere questi ultimi ad intervenire in seguito ad 
uno strike israeliano.
 
L'opposizione del presidente americano e del Pentagono è stata aggirata 
agendo sul Congresso tramite la nota Lobby e col supporto 
dell'imperialismo neocon: le durissime sanzioni varate dal Congresso 
hanno messo l'Iran in un angolo e alzato la tensione alle stelle.
Le lobbies "sioniste" nei parlamenti, nei governi, nei media, hanno 
costretto i paesi europei ad adeguarsi alle sanzioni.
La contrarietà dei capi dei servizi di intelligence e del capo di stato 
maggiore israeliani è stata vanificata  dalla rimozione dalle rispettive 
cariche e dalla sostituzione con personaggi più accomodanti.
Il regime "sionista" che guida Israele è determinato a scatenare la 
guerra contro l'Iran, e l'intera organizzazione "sionista" mondiale 
supporta questa decisione, nonostante gli avvertimenti di militari e di 
tecnici, incuranti di ogni conseguenza per Israele e per chiunque altro.
 
Questa è la dura realtà.
 
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Obama Seeks to Distance U.S. from Israeli Attack
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
 
WASHINGTON, Jan 3, 2012 (IPS) - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in intense maneuvering over 
Netanyahu's aim of entangling the United States in an Israeli war 
against Iran.
 
Netanyahu is exploiting the extraordinary influence his right-wing Likud 
Party exercises over the Republican Party and the U.S. Congress on 
matters related to Israel in order to maximise the likelihood that the 
United States would participate in an attack on Iran.
 
Obama, meanwhile, appears to be hoping that he can avoid being caught up 
in a regional war started by Israel if he distances the United States 
from any Israeli attack.
 
New evidence surfaced in 2011 that Netanyahu has been serious about 
dealing a military blow to the Iranian nuclear programme. Former Mossad 
chief Meir Dagan, who left his job in September 2010, revealed in his 
first public appearance after Mossad Jun. 2 that he, Israeli Defence 
Forces (IDF) chief Gabi Ashkenazi and Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin had 
been able to "block any dangerous adventure" by Netanyahu and Defence 
Minister Ehud Barak.
 
The Hebrew language daily Maariv reported that those three, along with 
President Shimon Peres and IDF Senior Commander Gadi Eisenkrot, had 
vetoed a 2010 proposal by Netanyahu to attack Iran.
 
Dagan said he was going public because he was "afraid there is no one to 
stop Bibi and Barak". Dagan also said an Israeli attack on Iran could 
trigger a war that would "endanger the (Israeli) state's existence", 
indicating that his revelation was not part of a psywar campaign.
 
It is generally agreed that an Israeli attack can only temporarily set 
back the Iranian nuclear programme, at significant risk to Israel. But 
Netanyahu and Barak hope to draw the United States into the war to 
create much greater destruction and perhaps the overthrow of the Islamic 
regime.
 
In a sign that the Obama administration is worried that Netanyahu is 
contemplating an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Defence Secretary 
Leon Panetta tried and failed in early October to get a commitment from 
Netanyahu and Barak that Israel would not launch an attack on Iran 
without consulting Washington first, according to both Israeli and U.S. 
sources cited by The Telegraph and by veteran intelligence reporter 
Richard Sale.
 
At a meeting with Obama a few weeks later, the new Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey and the new head of CENTCOM, Gen. 
James N. Mattis, expressed their disappointment that he had not been 
firm enough in opposing an Israeli attack, according to Sale.
 
Obama responded that he "had no say over Israel" because "it is a 
sovereign country."
 
Obama's remark seemed to indicate a desire to distance his 
administration from an Israeli attack on Iran. But it also made it clear 
that he was not going to tell Netanyahu that he would not countenance 
such an attack.
 
Trita Parsi, executive director of the National Iranian American Council 
(NIAC), who has analysed the history of the triangular relationship 
involving the United States, Israel and Iran in his book "Treacherous 
Alliance", says knowledgeable sources tell him Obama believes he can 
credibly distance himself from an Israeli attack.
 
In a Dec. 2 talk at the Brookings Institution, while discussing the 
dangers of the regional conflict that would result from such an attack, 
Panetta said the United States "would obviously be blamed and we could 
possibly be the target of retaliation from Iran, sinking our ships, 
striking our military bases."
 
Panetta's statement could be interpreted as an effort to convince Iran 
that the Obama administration is opposed to an Israeli strike and should 
not be targeted by Iran in retaliation if Israel does launch an attack.
 
Parsi believes Obama's calculation that he can convince Iran that the 
United States has no leverage on Israel without being much tougher with 
Israel is not realistic.
 
"Iran most likely would decide not to target U.S. forces in the region 
in retaliation for an Israeli strike only if the damage from the strike 
were relatively limited," Parsi told IPS in an e-mail.
 
The Obama administration considers the newest phase of sanctions against 
Iran, aimed at reducing global imports of Iranian crude oil, as an 
alternative to an unprovoked attack by Israel. But what Netanyahu had in 
mind in proposing such an initiative was much more radical than the 
Obama administration or the European Union could accept.
 
When Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of 
Democracies, which is closely aligned with Netanyahu's Likud Party, 
pushed the idea of sanctions against any financial institution that did 
business with Iran's Central Bank, the aim was to make it impossible for 
countries that import Iranian crude to continue to be able to make 
payments for the oil.
 
Dubowitz wanted virtually every country importing Iranian crude except 
China and India to cut off their imports. He argued that reducing the 
number of buyers to mainly China and India would not result in a rise in 
the price of oil, because Iran would have to offer discounted prices to 
the remaining buyers.
 
Global oil analysts warned, however, that such a sanctions regime could 
not avoid creating a spike in oil prices.
 
U.S. officials told Reuters Nov. 8 that sanctions on Iran's Central Bank 
were "not on the table". The Obama administration was warning that such 
sanctions would risk a steep rise in oil prices worldwide and a 
worsening global recession, while actually increasing Iranian oil revenues.
 
But Netanyahu used the power of the American Israel Public Affairs 
Committee (AIPAC) over Congressional action related to Israel to 
override Obama's opposition. The Senate unanimously passed an amendment 
representing Netanyahu's position on sanctions focused on Iran's oil 
sector and the Central Bank, despite a letter from Secretary of Treasury 
Tim Geithner opposing it. A similar amendment was passed by the House 
Dec. 15.
 
The Obama administration acquiesced and entered into negotiations with 
its European allies, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on reducing imports of 
Iranian crude oil while trying to fill the gaps with other sources. But 
a number of countries, including Japan and Korea, are begging off, and 
the EU is insisting on protecting Greece and other vulnerable economies.
 
The result is likely to be a sanctions regime that reduces Iranian 
exports only marginally - not the "crippling sanctions" demanded by 
Netanyahu and Barak. Any hike in oil prices generated by sanctions 
against Iran's oil sector, moreover, would only hurt Obama's re- 
election chances.
 
In an interview with CNN in November, Barak warned the international 
community that Israel might have to make a decision on war within as 
little as six months, because Iran's efforts to "disperse and fortify" 
its nuclear facilities would soon render a strike against facilities 
ineffective.
 
Barak said he "couldn't predict" whether that point would be reached in 
"two quarters or three quarters or a year". The new Israeli "red line" 
would place the timing of an Israeli decision on whether to strike Iran 
right in the middle of the U.S. presidential election campaign.
 
Netanyahu, who makes no secret of his dislike and distrust of Obama, may 
hope to put Obama under maximum pressure to support Israel militarily in 
a war with Iran by striking during a campaign in which the Republican 
candidate would be accusing him of being soft on the Iranian nuclear threat.
 
If the Republican candidate is in a strong position to win the election, 
on the other hand, Netanyahu would want to wait for a new administration 
aligned with his belligerent posture toward Iran.
 
Meanwhile, the end of U.S. Air Force control over Iraqi airspace with 
the final U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq has eliminated what had 
long been regarded as a significant deterrent to Israeli attack on Iran 
using the shortest route.
 
*Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising 
in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest 
book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in 
Vietnam", was published in 2006.
 
(END)
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 Questa è la dura realtà.
 
e il primo della lista e' il piu' pirla. Ti conviene nasconderti.

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Il regime "sionista" sta facendo di tutto per alzare la tensione tra
Iran e USA e per costringere questi ultimi ad intervenire in seguito ad
uno strike israeliano.
 
L'opposizione del presidente americano e del Pentagono è stata aggirata
agendo sul Congresso tramite la nota Lobby e col supporto
dell'imperialismo neocon: le durissime sanzioni varate dal Congresso
hanno messo l'Iran in un angolo e alzato la tensione alle stelle.
Le lobbies "sioniste" nei parlamenti, nei governi, nei media, hanno
costretto i paesi europei ad adeguarsi alle sanzioni.
La contrarietà dei capi dei servizi di intelligence e del capo di stato
maggiore israeliani è stata vanificata  dalla rimozione dalle rispettive
cariche e dalla sostituzione con personaggi più accomodanti.
Il regime "sionista" che guida Israele è determinato a scatenare la
guerra contro l'Iran, e l'intera organizzazione "sionista" mondiale
supporta questa decisione, nonostante gli avvertimenti di militari e di
tecnici, incuranti di ogni conseguenza per Israele e per chiunque altro.
 
          Questa è la dura realtà.
 
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Vincono perche' hanno a che fare con un branco di idioti.
 
Ci sono anche puffi ebrei alla presidenza Francese e nel ministero degli 
esteri inglese, oltre che nel labour party.
 
 
L'occidente si sta suicidando per quattro fanatici ebrei o islamici, pura 
demenza.
 
 
 

 esteri inglese, oltre che nel labour party.
 
padiglione F, camera 24, letto a castello? :-)
 

 
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Stai cercando ricovero?
Sei male informato, non ti accettano. 
 
 

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parlavo di voi due disadattati... 
 

 
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 :-))
 
Ma non lo sai che Saccozzi e' ebreo?
 
Vuoi le foto di lui durante i riti? 
 
 

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non era questo il problema :-) 
 

 
"Lord Curzon" <lord....@curzon.cur> wrote in message 
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Allora, convieni ha attaccato la Libia mentre ancora discutevano su cosa 
fare, un criminale.
 
L'altra storia dell'amichetto Mossad di Liam Fox la conosci.
 
 

 L'altra storia dell'amichetto Mossad di Liam Fox la conosci.
 
sei ossessionato, stai calmo. 
 

 sei ossessionato
 
Mica tanto, fa piacere vedere dei politici di alto rango guidare il mondo, 
non trovi?
 
 

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mi spiace, non riesco a trovare nulla.... 
 

 mi spiace, non riesco a trovare nulla....
 
Cosa cerchi? Liam Fox? 
 
 

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