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Newspaper Roundup for Dec. 4, 2008
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Home News National CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Dec. 4, 2008 Thursday, December 04, 2008 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor Boston Globe: Unions' euphoria gives way to worry Financial crisis has labor on the defensive Washington Post: As Hearings Resume, UAW Offers Concessions Urging an Auto Bailout, Union Retreats on Terms Of Health Care, Jobs Bank Washington Post: Treasury Weighs Action on Mortgage Rates Intervention Would Aim to Buoy the Housing Market by Forcing Down the Cost of Loans Houston Chronicle: U.S. clears way for controversial drug aid to Mexico Washington Post: Mexico Drug Cartels Send A Message of Chaos, ...
Going it alone?
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Going it alone? [image] The JPost is reporting on Thursday that the IDF is preparing to attack Iran on its own , with or without American support. "It is always better to coordinate," one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. "But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination." Israeli officials have said it would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without receiving codes from the US Air Force, which controls Iraqi airspace. Israel also asked for the codes in 1991 during the First Gulf War, but the US refused. "There are a wide range of risks one takes when embarking on such an operation," a top Israeli ...
Doing the job Americans won't do...
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Israel prepares for Iranian strike without US cooperation
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Israel prepares for Iranian strike without US cooperation posted at 8:33 am on December 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly According to the Jerusalem Post , Israel has begun planning for a strike on Iran’s presumed nuclear-research sites without cooperation from the US. Sources tell the JP that they’d prefer to partner with the Americans, but that they have to plan for the contingency of refusal: The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned. While its preference is to coordinate with the US, ...
Kumbayah My Lord, And Prepare The Airstrikes
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[image] « Laugh Riot Money Talks » Kumbayah My Lord, And Prepare The Airstrikes As Obama prepares to chat with mullahs, Israel gets into the new spirit of Obamist foreign policy and prepares to speak to mullahs in its own way. Jerusalem Post : The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned. While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.“It is always better to coordinate,” one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. “But we ...
Shameful
Daily Pundit —
IDF preparing options for Iran strike | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
The IDF is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.
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JPost.com » Iran news » Article
Dec 4, 2008 0:40 | Updated Dec 4, 2008 16:30
IDF preparing options for Iran strike
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Israel Preparing to Attack Iran Without American Help
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Map of Iran’s nuclear facilities
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is drawing up options to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities without the complicit help of the United States.
While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation. ...
Hawks In Doves Clothing
Newshoggers.com —
... ". Today, it reported anonymously sourced claims that Israel is ready to go it alone in attacking Iran, after the US has repeatedly refused to co-operate in airstrikes. ...
Hawks In Doves Clothing
Crooks and Liars —
Rupert Murdoch's Jerusalem Post has to keep finding its daily quota of Iranian fearmongering and war hype. No other Israeli newspaper keeps, as a permanent and prominent section right after Headlines and before those for other Missle East or international news, one entitled "The Threat From Iran". Today, it reported anonymously sourced claims that Israel is ready to go it alone in attacking Iran, after the US has repeatedly refused to co-operate in airstrikes.
It is, of course, an insane notion -- one designed to keep up the pressure of bellicose rhetoric aimed at Iran in the mistaken idea that the Iranian regime will thus become less entrenched and ...
