pajamasmedia.com - 12/11/2008
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Fox News reports that Barack Obama is offering Israel an nuclear guaranty against Iranian attack, signalling that a nuclear Iran is inevitable.
President-elect Barack Obama will offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli ...
haaretz.com - 12/11/2008
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haaretz.com —
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel
a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a nuclear
attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said ...
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Obama's atomic umbrella: U.S. nuclear strike ...
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 12/11/2008
telegraph.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani has branded
US PresidentElect Barack Obama's comments on Tehran's nuclear activities
as "cowboy" talk the ISNA news agency reported.
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Iran accuses Barack Obama of 'cowboy talk'
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Obama Offers Israelis a Nuke Umbrella?
The Corner on National Review Online —
Thursday, December 11, 2008 [image] Obama Offers Israelis a Nuke Umbrella? [ Michael Ledeen ] Ha'aretz reports that Obama will offer Israeli a nuclear umbrella vs. Iran. The "reporter" wonders if that means Obama has accepted the inevitability of an Iranian nuke. Yes, of course I blogged on it . And so did Richard Fernandez. You know, he used to do "Belmont Club." 12/11 02:34 PM
Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran ...but only in retaliation
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Ahmadinejad, described Israel as "the most hideous occurrence in history" which the Muslim world "will vomit out from its midst" with "a single atomic bomb." That last bit is worth quoting more fully. Rafsanjani said: A single atomic bomb has the power to completely destroy Israel, while an Israeli counter-strike can only cause partial damage to the Islamic world. If they were thus calibrating the risks a few years ago, I wonder what they make of this new "pledge". Richard Fernandez writes : A combination of tacitly accepting an nuclear-armed Iran and reposing ...
Source: Obama to nuke Iran if Iran nukes Israel
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... to deter those under the umbrella from being spooked into building nukes of their own. That’s why Hillary’s idea to extend the policy to Saudi Arabia makes a certain perverse sense — or would, if you could find an American eager to jump into a nuclear war to defend Riyadh. The umbrella policy could, I guess, in theory be an incentive to get Israel to give up its own weapons and set a “non-nuclear” standard for the Middle East, but given the vicissitudes of American politics and, as Richard Fernandez says, the fact that there’s no reason to believe the west would act to nuke ...
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... Rafsanjani, one of those famously "moderate" types compared to President Ahmadinejad, described Israel as "the most hideous occurrence in history" which the Muslim world "will vomit out from its midst" with "a single atomic bomb." That last bit is worth quoting more fully. Rafsanjani said:
A single atomic bomb has the power to completely destroy Israel, while an Israeli counter-strike can only cause partial damage to the Islamic world.
A US-Israel Nuclear Umbrella? How Does it Help?
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A US-Israel Nuclear Umbrella? How Does it Help?
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