Netanyahu Says World Has No 'Moral Right' To Stop Israel From Attacking Iran

Post-election, should he win, he lets them swing in the wind.

In effect, Netanyahu was saying at the Jerusalem media conference that if Washington was not prepared to do the job, it could not stand in Israel's way. To which a sceptical Obama might reasonably have asked: ''Yeah? You and whose army?''

There is great disagreement in Israeli military and intelligence circles, among senior officers and their predecessors, on the wisdom and timing of any unilateral Israeli strike on Iran's widely dispersed and, in some cases, deeply bunkered nuclear installations.

But Americans apparently are not enamoured of the idea of fighting Israel's war. In a poll released on Monday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 70 per cent of American respondents opposed a unilateral US military campaign against Iran and 59 per cent said Israel should be left to its own devices if it were to bomb Iran and then to call for American help.

Anxiety about Iran's nuclear program focuses almost entirely on the power that Tehran might derive - and abuse - from having a nuclear arsenal. But if the debate is viewed in the context of the power Israel wields with a nuclear arsenal that reportedly numbers 200 or more warheads, the equation is upended.

This question is being examined with increasing seriousness in Foreign Affairs and other such journals. Collectively, these papers were pushed to the front of the debate this week when Bill Keller, a former executive editor of The New York Times, wrote of them as the work of ''serious, thoughtful people who are willing to contemplate a nuclear Iran, kept in check by the time-tested assurance of retaliatory destruction''.

In the same journal, Frank Procida, a national intelligence fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, dismisses oft-stated fears that a nuclear-armed Iran would spark a regional nuclear arms race - ''a Persian bomb should not be any more significant to [other countries in the region] than a Jewish one''.

Despite the Iranian leadership's hyperbole on the fate of Israel, Procida concludes Iran's past actions and public comments by its clerical leadership suggest it would not risk the devastation of nuclear retaliation by the US and/or Israel.

Allow fecund Arabs to overrun Israel and the problem will disappear.

Of course "the problem" will rapidly replaced by the problems we now see in Syria, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon et al.

Or is your probelm more specifically, Arab fecundity?

It will quickly becaone another failed state like Syrai, Lebanon etc.

Some of us sympathised with the oppressed Felix,
although there are others who get quite a kick from vicariously following the jackboot.

Secondly it will become yet another Arab state and populate by dyfunctional Palestinians for who generationa have grown up with hate and anger.

It will quickly becaone another failed state like Syrai, Lebanon etc.

You've become very unforgiving of late for minor errors of late Dave.
I'm sorry I missed a comma, and humbly beg your forgiveness.

OK; sorry to have been un-forgiving.
In that case: may I know who the non-oppressed Felix is ?

Nobody has a right to attack any other nation, pre-emptive or otherwise.

brutally suppressing an occupied people

Maybe David wasn't allowed to watch cartoons when he was a boy.

Nobody has a right to attack any other nation, pre-emptive or otherwise.
You can't make special cases for anyone.