Israel as Collateral Damage (in a War With Iran)
US troops land in Israel for Austere Challenge 12
What do Austere Challenge 12, Theater Iran Near Term, Global Strike 2003, Vigilant Shield 07, and Concept Plan 8022 all have in common? They are all names of Pentagon war games simulating an attack on Iran. Most military war games are conducted in secret. Those listed above have been made public, presumably to help build consensus among the military brass and the Washington elite about the inevitability of war with Iran. Canadian researcher and globalization researcher Michel Chossudovksy writes about them in a January 8, 2012 Global Research article entitled When War Games Go Live
It’s Official: Iran Not Building Nuclear Weapons
Just to be clear here. The current US threats against Iran have nothing to do with Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. In the first place, they aren’t building nuclear weapons. On the January 8 Face the Nation, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta acknowledged that Iran is not trying to building nuclear weapons. You can read his exact words here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57354647/face-the-nation-transcript-january-8-2012/
In the second place, the US has been preparing to attack Iran for more than a decade. As I mention in my previous blogs about the covert war against Syria, war against both Iran and Syria have been part of the Pentagon’s Middle East strategy since the mid-nineties. As retried General Wesley Clark writes in “Winning Modern Wars,” US foreign policy over the last 20 years has focused on regime change in seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. All seven, except Syria, are oil rich countries targeted owing to their refusal to privatize their oil resources for the benefit of Anglo American oil companies. Oil-poor Syria is a target because of its strategic alliance with oil-rich Iran. Please note that this policy has remained consistent whether Republicans or Democrats control Congress and the White House.
Why Israel Won’t Be Attacking Iran
Chossudovsky disputes the line promoted in the media (and by Panetta himself – http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/us-nuclear-iran-usa-israel-idUSTRE81202Z20120203), that Israel and the pro-Israel lobby is behind the current threats against Iran. Chossudovsky asserts that massive retaliation against Israel, the inevitable outcome of a US attack on Iran, has always been the chief disincentive preventing against launching one. Iran, which has a massive military industrial complex, is a top military power, only slightly behind Germany and Israel. Iran has the ability to mobilize one million troops practically overnight, as well as an extensive air force and Advance missiles capable of bombing Israel back to the Stone Age.
He stresses that Israel is incapable of launching a sneak attack in an effort to draw the US into a full blown war. Not only is Israel the Middle East country with the most to lose from war with Iran, but since 2008 Israel’s air defense forces have been fully integrated with those of the US and NATO. This makes it impossible for them to act unilaterally. One of the major goals of Austere Challenge 12, the January 2012 war games – the largest in world history – was to test these air defense. As Chossudovsky makes clear in a recent Guns and Butter interview, even NATO can’t protect Israel from massive civilian casualties and infrastructure damage from an Iranian counterattack. In his view, the recent escalation of US threats against Iran more likely reflect a shift in Washington’s views on Israel’s strategic importance to US interests. It now appears Washington is prepared to sacrifice Israel in pursuit of its ultimate goal: regime change in Tehran and privatization of Iran’s oil resources for the benefit of Anglo-American oil companies.
Setting the State for World War III
During the interview, Chossudovksy describes each of the five Pentagon war games listed above, making it clear that the US has been actively rehearsing a military attack on Iran since 2003. Theater Iran Near Term was a simulated attack on Iraq’s neighbor that occurred in May 2003, within days after US troops “liberated” Baghdad. According to the Canadian researcher, Pentagon are well of the treaties Russia and China (both nuclear powers) have committing them to come to Iran’s defense. Both rely heavily on Iran for their oil imports, a major reason why they refuse to go along with the sanctions. Chossudovksy believes Russia, which has a naval base in southern Syria, will likely come to their defense if they are attacked by NATO. This is why the 2006 war games called Vigilant Shield 07 included retaliatory strikes, not only against Iran (code named Irmingham), North Korea (code named Nemzee), Russia (code named Ruebeck) and China (code named Churya).
In other words, the US is setting the stage to launch World War III and a possible nuclear war between Russia, China and the US. The mainstream media has widely publicized the movement of US war ships to the Strait of Hormuz, an essential transit route for oil shipments from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states that traverses Iranian territorial waters. They have not reported on the massive shipment in 2010 of weapons (and weapons advisors) to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, or the US troop build up in Israel (9,000 troops in January 2012) or Kuwait (15,000 troops in December 2011).
Removing Israel from “The Pages of Time”
Chossudovksy believes Iran would ultimately lose a war with the US, despite inflicting massive damage on civilians and US military installations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as destroying Israel as a major Middle East power.
He’s struck by the irony of Israel’s new designation as “collateral damage” in a US conflict with Iran, in view of the infamous statement attributed to Iran President Ahmadinejad about wanting to wipe Israel off the map. The often repeated quote happens to be a fabrication. It’s actually a mistranslation of a prediction, rather than a threat, and was first uttered by the late Ayatollah Khomeini, not President Ahmadinejad. Before his death Khomeini made the prediction that the “regime occupying Jeruselum,” like the Soviet Union and the Shah of Iran would eventually “disappear from the pages of time.”
How ironic that the US, Israel’s oldest friend and ally, is about to fulfill this prophecy by preparing to launch a unilateral military assault on Iran.
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Israel needs to be destroyed, and the khazars driven off of the land everywhere they inhabit it. Rothschilds hanged, same with the british royal family, hanged or shot.
zionism must be totally and utterly gone or there is no hope for this earth.
as long as a single khazar fake zioturd breathes, the planet is in jeopardy.
The last holocaust may have been fake.
The coming one is shaping up very nicely.
There will not be a single Zionist left alive in any nation on this Earth when this is all over.
We will hunt every one of you down, no matter how long it takes.
The FEMA camps and guillotines will be used on bankers, politicians, media owners, and assorted Wall Street scum.
We know who you are, and there will be no escape for any of you.
Peace on Earth and good will towards men, is just not possible while the plotting evil stinking Zionist scum continue to breathe.
It is impssible to be a ease with the notion that a war in the middle east, involving use of nuclear weapons, is inevitable. Yet a poll showing most American seemed to have accepted a war against Iran as necessity. How utterly depressing!
i have no problem with anyone wipeing Israel off the face of our world
and 95% of the jew population world wide
the world would be a better place over night with no jews in it
The main thesis here — disputing “that Israel and the pro-Israel lobby is behind the current threats against Iran” — makes no sense at all. So the whole world is just hallucinating? There are a lot of good things at Jewish professor Chossudovsky’s website — they say that quality disinformation has to be 99% good stuff. But I can’t forget a long article by the good professor not too long after 9/11, pointing out with convoluted arguments the central role in that event played by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Nary a word to expose Israelis or Israeli-American dual citizens. His thesis back then looks completely ridiculous in light of what we know now, thanks to Bollyn and others. Chossudovsky’s present thesis looks ridiculous in light of what we already know at the time of its pronouncement. Perhaps its main purpose is to sell America an attack on Iran, since that would purportedly not be for Jews but for American greed. His thesis flies in face of such facts as that the Atlanta Jewish News channelled a death threat to Obama the other day for hesitating to attack Iran. It is perhaps organised Jewry’s hope that the great powers will destroy one another over an attack on Iran. They would not mind sacrificing some of their own if it would further their ‘sacred’ goal of world dominance. They are guided by a genocidal ideology, as is clear from their ‘holy’ books. As their main genocidal holiday, Purim, draws near, let’s hope they keep the celebration down to cannibal feasting on the body parts of Hamaan.
Yes! For sure Israel WILL BE DESTROYED bu Allah SWT the Almighty. Amiin!!!
Iranians, all of u! From now on RECITE this — WITHOUT STOPPING, except when u r in a toilet — ROBBUN-ALLAAH!!! check it out in Surah/Chapter Fussilat:30…this the dzikr/du’a/supplication of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH/SAW.
Israel, USA, Brits, and NATO as well as other Western nations attacking Iran will be completely destroyed, insha Allah, by Allah SWT. Amin!
Allahu Akbar. Robbun Allaah (1000 times), Ya Allah, destroy those Satanic Forces that intend to attack Iran. Amin.
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Oops! Typo: …bu.. should read by.. Allah SWT
Sorry everyone.
EVeryone all over the world will suffer,the economies will all go into a depression.Gas will be $10 a gallon causing SOARING prices from food to Electric,Goods,services of whatever is left if it happens
Zioturd is right every one of them needs to be wiped out. If israel wiped out zog falls apart, i woukd bet 10 to 1 chosucusky is a jew trying to blame on us the anglosaxon
The one thing that i remember the most clearly over the past 39-40 years of my school days at Brandeis University in1970′s are my student adviser’s words that when he was growing up that his grand parents and parents used the term “‘goyishe kup,’” meaning that the “Non-Jews are Stupid”
Later in life I learned that the exact translation of “GOYISHE KUP” means that the “Cattle are STUPID”..
I remember him recalling whatt his father told him when he was growing up in Eastern Europe. One of them being that when his father was in high school he and a group of friends would skip school early on Fridays and go over to his friend’s father’s butcher shop. That they would buy at cost any cows , that had not been butchered by the end of the day on Friday before the begining of shabat . They would take the cow home and wash it and then the boys would procede to “beat the udders of the cows so that they would swell up and turn pink” so as to sell them to the “GOYISHE KUP” as milk producing cows.
The part that I remember him asking me if the East Europeans are so naive, so gullible and so stupid to buy old “non milk producing cows” from a bunch of young Jewish Boys.
So thinking of it now I agree with the Jewish saying that the “GOYISHE KUP” are indeed” Stupid” as they believe that a Bunch of Arab Muslim Kids who were not able to Fly a Cessna Airplane took it upon themselves to FLY a Boing Jumbo Jet outwitting the US Military and Civilian authorities. The “Jewish Lightning Insurance Scam” of the 1960′s is still alive and well has been put to good use by Larry Silverstein with the help of his sayanim jews made a financial killing in imploding wtc by putting 15 million down and comming out with 7 billion dollars for buidings that no one wanted to buy because it would have cost a billion dollars to remove the asbestos from. Then on top of that the people in America actually believe that they actually decide who is elected President or for that that actual VOTE is really counted and makes a difference in deciding who represents them in the White House and congress. http://www.bollyn.com/index.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTXbARGXso http://www.911missinglinks.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxnpujfanUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeggPSL3gQs
http://www.revisionisthistory.org
Yeh I agree that the AmericanNon-Jews are indeed American “GOYISHE KUP” or “STUPID CATTLE”!
The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies The Iowa Caucus
By Christopher Bollyn
1-1-8
The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation’s attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus?
The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don’t expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American “democratic” election process.
VOXEO
In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results.
The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history
As much as I hate to admit it, Zioturd is RIGHT. But the truth is being “Jewish” is a CHOICE! I don’t think they all need to be expelled or worse; they merely need to stop thinking they are a people apart; “chosen.” The “Jews” need to admit that they are regular human beings just like the rest of the goyim. Those unwilling to do that should be expelled, isolated away from us admitted human beings, and only failing that, liquidated. But none or all of these possibilites could happen. I think it would best if all of these Japhetic Khazars (“Ashkenazi”) and Arab pretenders (“Sephardi”) became Christians or Muslims – two faiths that have proven they can co-exist in peace. There is NO RACE of “Jews,” therefor there is nobody to “exterminate;” only an IDEA needs exterminated. It is only the Satanic, irredeemably incorrigible religion of Babylonian “Judaism” (Babylonian faux-’Judaicism’ – those who pretend to be the People of the Bible and who praciticed the proto-Christian religion of Hebraic Biblicism) and it’s political component “Zionism” that must be mercilessly eradicated. And it (the Satanic Idea of Chosen-ness) MUST be mercilessly eradicated.
Funny how you are taking so long to make up your mind. My remark is pretty straightforward and factual. Yet you have no problem with “Zioturds”.
larouchepac dot com —- can save you time.
We give them so many billions of dollars now. If netanyahu and friends go into hiding while the israel military gets themselves and the civilian Israelis all bashed up, think of how much THAT would cost.
Perhaps the best remedy for a dog chasing cars is to let it catch one. Let Israel have her precious war with Iran.
Let the fever-dreams of Iran posing a tangible existential threat to one country, become reality. Though not in the way that it was envisaged.
The US can pull a JFK style “bay of pigs” move, tangibly supporting Israel’s efforts until the very last second. Obama should be great at that!
Depending on how it was spun, the US might even be seen as a hero of the Arab and Eastern worlds once again, if it was diplomatically and candidly made clear in the aftermath that the “destroying Israel as a major Middle East power” (quoting from the article above) was a strategically well understood if “unintended” consequence.
The fallout, as well as having possibly a nuclear dimension, might include the ratting-out of political secrets held on major US politicians by the Israeli special interests in the US for their betrayal of those special interests. Crimes in the dark by bent politicians would be brought to light. Another bonus.
The US could then pick up and continue the Israeli tradition of ultimately burning its allies on the pyre of expediency, pick up the pieces of the Middle East, surfing on its newfound popularity, and make buckets of money selling iPads and such to a new Arab middle-class.
And most importantly, the US might even be welcomed into the strategic underbelly of Russia and China, where it originally was in the 50′s-70′s. There was nothing quite like Northern Iran for keeping tabs on the Russians.
Joe, I honestly believe your suggestion is the best. Sometimes the extreme cynicism of US foreign policy really gets to me. Sometimes there’s a real need for comic relief – for someone to point out how ludicrously insane it is.
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