Are the armed forces of Israel or the USA about to attack Iran?
I've drawn attention to cries of wolf so often that you, my reader, must be sick of it. Tonight, however, David Owen (of Vance-Owen, SDP and Foreign Office infamy) is suggesting that a plan to start a Persian war is imminent
There are plenty of people around who use overt support for Israel to attack Jews or to spread disinformation at the critical moment. I hope I don't seem one of them. I grieved at the Iranian plans to hang Christians. I've noted time and again that the Iranian regime is one of the world's chief sponsors of terror.
But at a time when oil prices are falling, when Israel is gaining credibility for treating their children, when iron dome is being refined, when the Iranian President is in political trouble, when Russia has backed away from arms deals and when they clearly stand condemned for their terrorist activities by their own admission;
Now is not the time to start a Persian war which will blow back to major European cities. Nor is after the election the time either. Peace is not immediately rewarding, not easy, not unmixed. Yet there are so many avenues for peace right now.
We lose nothing by waiting, spending, undermining, arguing. We could almost assuredly lose nearly everything with a war in Iran, because that--not surgical strikes, that seductive nonsense--is what allowing people to hit at Iran would do.
Israel must learn the lessons of the Lebanon war--that its noble, brave young men and women should not be thrown into the maw to look tough. I and people far more important than me expect better of Tzipi Livni.
The following video contains graphic imagery of what war does. Look at it, especially, if like me, you at first supported the Iraq war. I have drawn attention to it before, and will not stop. The music is Arlo Guthrie's Patriot's Dream.
I've drawn attention to cries of wolf so often that you, my reader, must be sick of it. Tonight, however, David Owen (of Vance-Owen, SDP and Foreign Office infamy) is suggesting that a plan to start a Persian war is imminent
There are plenty of people around who use overt support for Israel to attack Jews or to spread disinformation at the critical moment. I hope I don't seem one of them. I grieved at the Iranian plans to hang Christians. I've noted time and again that the Iranian regime is one of the world's chief sponsors of terror.
But at a time when oil prices are falling, when Israel is gaining credibility for treating their children, when iron dome is being refined, when the Iranian President is in political trouble, when Russia has backed away from arms deals and when they clearly stand condemned for their terrorist activities by their own admission;
Now is not the time to start a Persian war which will blow back to major European cities. Nor is after the election the time either. Peace is not immediately rewarding, not easy, not unmixed. Yet there are so many avenues for peace right now.
We lose nothing by waiting, spending, undermining, arguing. We could almost assuredly lose nearly everything with a war in Iran, because that--not surgical strikes, that seductive nonsense--is what allowing people to hit at Iran would do.
Israel must learn the lessons of the Lebanon war--that its noble, brave young men and women should not be thrown into the maw to look tough. I and people far more important than me expect better of Tzipi Livni.
The following video contains graphic imagery of what war does. Look at it, especially, if like me, you at first supported the Iraq war. I have drawn attention to it before, and will not stop. The music is Arlo Guthrie's Patriot's Dream.
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