<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Depressing and hopeless. <br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 1/6/12, David Johnson <i><dlj725@hughes.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div id="yiv2062309889"><div><p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 19px;"><font style="FONT:24px Arial;" size="6" face="Arial"><b>THE WAR ON IRAN: The Deployment of Thousands of US Troops to
Israel, The Integration of US-Israeli Command Structures By Michel
Chossudovsky</b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" size="5" face="Arial">4</font><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> January, 2012 — </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><b><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Global
Research</span></font></i></b></font></a></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;COLOR:rgb(0,129,0);" color="#008100" face="Arial"><b><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The Islamic Republic of Iran has
been threatened with military action by the US and its allies for the last eight
years.</span></font></i></b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Iran has been involved in war games in the Persian
Gulf.</span></font></i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> </span></font><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> The US Navy is deployed. Iran’s naval
exercises which commenced on December 24th were conducted in an area which is
patrolled by the US Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain</span></font></i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Meanwhile, a new round of economic sanctions against the
Islamic Republic of Iran has been unleashed, largely targeting Iran’s Central
Bank, leading to a dramatic plunge of Iran’s
currency.</span></font></i></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Reacting to US threats, Iran declared that it would
consider blocking the shipment of oil through the Strait of
Hormuz:</span></font></i></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> ”Roughly 40 percent of the world’s oil tanker
shipments transit the strait daily, carrying 15.5 million barrels of Saudi,
Iraqi, Iranian, Kuwaiti, Bahraini, Qatari and United Arab Emirates crude oil,
leading the United States Energy Information Administration to label the Strait
of Hormuz “the world’s most important oil chokepoint.” (John C.K.
Daly, </span></font></i><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28488"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">War Imminent in
Strait of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil?</span></font></i></font></a><i><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> Global Research, January 3,
2012)</span></font></i></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The Globalization of War and the Demise of the American
Republic</span></font></b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">There is a symbiotic relationship between War and the
Economic Crisis.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The planning of the Iran war is being carried out at
the crossroads of a worldwide economic depression, which is conducive to
widening social inequalities, mass unemployment and the impoverishment of large
sectors of the world population.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Crushing social movements on the domestic front
–including all forms of resistance to America’s military agenda and its
neoliberal economic policies– is an integral part of the United States’
hegemonic role Worldwide. </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Does Constitutional Government in the eyes of the Obama
Administration constitute an encroachment to “The Globalization of
War”?</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">History tells us that an Empire cannot be built on the
political foundations of a Republic.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">In this regard, it should come as no surprise that the
new Iran sanctions regime adopted by the US Congress became law on New
Year’s Eve, December 31st, on the same day Obama signed into law the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA 2012), which suspends civil liberties and allows
for the “Indefinite Detention of Americans”. (See Michel
Chossudovsky, </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28441"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> The
Inauguration of Police State USA 2012. Obama Signs the “National Defense
Authorization Act “</span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">, Global
Research, January 1, 2012)</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The Obama administration is intent upon crushing both
social dissent as well as antiwar protest. The American Republic is incompatible
with America’s “long war”. What is required is the instatement of a “democratic
dictatorship”, a de facto military rule in civilian
cloths.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Thousands of Troops to
Israel</span></font></b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Advanced war preparations are ongoing. Barely mentioned
by the Western media, although confirmed by Israeli press
reports, </span></font><b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">the Pentagon is preparing to send
several thousand US troops to Israel.</span></font></b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">In the context of ongoing war preparations, these troops
are slated to participate in joint US-Israeli military maneuvers in Spring 2012,
described by the </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=250249"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Jerusalem
Post</span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> as “</span></font><b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">the largest-ever missile defense exercise in [Israel's]
history</span></font></b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">.” (emphasis
added) </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Last week [11-18 December], Lt.-Gen. Frank Gorenc,
commander of the US’s Third Air Force based in Germany, visited Israel to
finalize plans for the upcoming drill, expected to
see </span></font><b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">the deployment of several
thousand American soldiers in Israel.</span></font></b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> (</span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=250249"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">US commander visits
Israel to finalize missile… Jerusalem Post December 21, 2011 emphasis
added)</span></font></font></a></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">These war games involve the testing of Israel’s air
defense system, which is now fully integrated into the US global missile
detection system, following the installation (December 2008) of a new
sophisticated X-band early warning radar system. (See </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.defense.gov/news/"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">http://www.defense.gov/news/</span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">, December 30, 2011, .See also Sen. Joseph
Azzolina, </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bayshorenews.com/publication/show/774"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Protecting Israel
from Iran’s missiles, </span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Bayshore News,
December 26, 2008).</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The US global missile detection system includes
satellites, Aegis ships in the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea as well
as land-based Patriot radars and interceptors. In the context of planning the
US-Israel Spring war games:</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">“The US will also bring its THAAD (Terminal High Altitude
Area Defense) and shipbased Aegis ballistic missile defense systems to Israel to
simulate the interception of missile salvos against
Israel.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The American systems will work in conjunction with
Israel’s missile defense systems – the Arrow, Patriot and Iron
Dome.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Gorenc came to Israel for talks with Brig.-Gen. Doron
Gavish, commander of the Air Force’s Air Defense
Division.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">He toured one of the Iron Dome batteries in the South and
the Israel Test Bed lab in Holon where the IAF holds its interception simulation
exercises.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The IAF is planning to deploy a fourth battery of the
Iron Dome counter-rocket system in the coming months and is mulling the
possibility of stationing it in Haifa to protect oil refineries located
there.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The Defense Ministry has allocated a budget to
manufacture an additional three Iron Dome batteries by the end of 2012. IAF
operational requirements call for the deployment of about a dozen batteries
along Israel’s northern and southern borders.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The IAF is also moving forward with plans to deploy
Rafael’s David’s Sling missile defense system, which is designed to defend
against medium-range rockets and cruise missiles. Rafael recently completed a
series of successful navigation and flight tests of the David’s Sling’s
interceptor and plans to hold the first interception test by
mid-2012. </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=250249"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">US commander visits
Israel to finalize missile… Jerusalem Post December 21,
2011)</span></font></font></a></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><b><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Integrated US-NATO-Israel Command
Structures</span></font></b></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Pursuant to these joint US-Israel games, there are
indications that the US is also planning to increase the number of American
troops stationed in Israel. </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Moreover, these military exercises planned for next
Spring are accompanied by a fundamental shift in US-NATO-Israel command
structures.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">What is now unfolding at Washington’s behest is an
integration of US-Israel military command structures.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Washington is not a reluctant partner, as some observers
have suggested, “with the Obama administration attempting to distance
itself” from an Israeli sponsored war on Iran. Quite the
opposite!</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Given the integration of Israel’s air defense system into
that of the US, </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28326"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Israel cannot, under
any circumstances, wage a war on Iran without the
US.</span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> Moreover, since mid-2005,
following the signing of a protacol between NATO and Tel Aviv, Israel has become
a de facto member of the Atlantic Alliance. </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The Pentagon calls the shots. The planned deployment of
US troops in Israel is part and parcel of a US sponsored
war.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">In the context of the Spring 2012 military drills, the
United States military will establish Command Posts in Israel. In turn, Israel’s
IDF will establish Command Posts at </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eucom.mil/"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">United States European Command headquarters
(EUCOM)</span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">, in Stuttgart, Germany.
(Ibid).</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The ultimate objective of these command posts is to
establish “joint [US-Israeli] task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict
in the Middle East”, (Ibid). In other words, these task forces will be involved
in planning the deployment of troops and weapons systems directed against Iran,
with Israel playing an important role as a launchpad for military action.
</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">What these developments suggest is that the war on
Iran –which has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon since
2003– will involve the direct participation of Israel under a unified
US military command. </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The people of Israel are the unspoken victims of
America’s global military agenda as well their own government’s war plans
directed against Iran. </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">They are led to believe that Iran possesses nuclear
weapons when in fact Israel possesses an advanced nuclear arsenal, which is
directed against Iran.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">The people of Israel as well as Western public opinion,
more generally, are also led to believe that Iran’s president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad wants “to Wipe Israel off the Map”, when in fact this statement
was concocted by the Western media, as a means of demonizing the Iranian head of
state as well as presenting Iran as a threat to the security of
Israel: </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">“Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that
could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran‘s President has
threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be
wiped off the map”. Contrary to popular belief, this statement
was never made”</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">(See Arash Norouzi, </span></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21188"><font style="COLOR:rgb(0,0,240);" color="#0000f0"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Israel: “Wiped off
The Map”. The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify An All
out War on Iran, </span></font></font></a><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span"> Global
Research, January 20, 2007)</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Who wants to “wipe Israel off the Map”? Tehran or
Washington? Ahmadinejad or Obama?</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">In actual fact, the Obama administration as well as the
Netanyahu government indelibly constitute a threat to the people of
Israel.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">Tehran has since 2005 warned that it will retaliate if
attacked, in the form of ballistic missile strikes directed against Israel as
well as against US military facilities in the Persian Gulf, which would
immediately lead us into a scenario of military
escalation.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">This war would engulf a region extending from the
Mediterranean to the heartland of Central Asia. It would have devastating
consequences, resulting in a massive loss of life.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0px 0px 16px;"><font style="FONT:16px Arial;" face="Arial"><font class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span" size="5"><span style="FONT-SIZE:18px;" class="yiv2062309889Apple-style-span">It would precipitate humanity into a World War III
scenario.</span></font></font></p>
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