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Here's how Israel would destroy Iran's nuclear program
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... facilities where it is conducting uranium enrichment," they write. If facilities unknown to Western intelligence agencies do exist, Iran's uranium-enrichment program could continue to develop in secret there, while Israel attacks the known sites - and the strike's gains would thus be lost. In general, the authors state, attacking Iran is justified only if it will put an end to Iran's nuclear program or halt it for several years. That objective is very difficult to attain. Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085619.html
Greg Hengler: Haaretz: 'Here's How Israel Would Destroy Iran's Nuclear Program'
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
http://www.greatdreams.com/sacred/israeli-plane1.jpg From Haaretz : "The study analyzes three possible flight routes and concludes that the optimal and most likely one is the northern one that passes along the Syria-Turkey border, cuts across the northeastern edge of Iraq and leads into Iran. The central route passes over Jordan and is shorter, but would not be chosen for fear of political trouble with the Jordanians. Using the southern route, which passes over Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, might likewise lead to political entanglements."
News Snarks
Yourish.com —
... Ha’aretz to Israel: Give up now, we’re doomed. You know, it’s like Ha’aretz really is the New York Times of Israel, with all the defeatist, doom-and-gloom, Israel’s always wrong talk. Read this article and you will believe that Iran will not only get the bomb, but that Israel will be totally screwed, forever and always, by the Iranians. And if you make it to the very end of the scenario and still don’t get it, don’t worry—the author is going to lecture you on why Israel shouldn’t even think nasty ...
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bibi Gun
TPMCafe —
... If you want to know what an Israeli attack will really mean, just read this extraordinarily trenchant summary by Reuven Pedatzur, ironically entitled, "Here's how Israel would destroy Iran's nuclear program." The piece, relying on a study by Abdullah Toukan and Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, blasts the Netanyahu-to-Arad-to-Goldberg thesis more thoroughly than a bunker buster. ...
