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Israel Better Forget About Attacking Iran
By Gilad Atzmon
Israeli Ynet admitted today that an Israeli air force attack on Iran is unrealistic.
The Israeli paper quoted a New York Times article that described such an attack as ‘highly complex operation’. It would require at least 100 planes. Israeli jets would have to refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran’s air defenses and attack multiple underground sites simultaneously.
American military experts seem to agree amongst themselves that Israel doesn’t necessarily has the means to accomplish such an operation.
The first problem Israel faces is how to get to Iran. ”Israel has American-built F-15I and F-16I fighter jets that can carry bombs to the targets, but their range — depending on altitude, speed and payload — falls far short of the minimum 2,000-mile round trip. That does not include an aircraft’s ‘loiter time’ over a target plus the potential of having to fight off attacks from Iranian missiles and planes,” according to the report.
In any case, the report claimed, Israel would have to use airborne refueling planes, called tankers, but Israel is “not thought to have enough.”
Israel would also need to use its electronic warfare planes to penetrate Iran’s air defenses and jam its radar systems to create a corridor for an attack.
The analysts said another major hurdle is Israel’s inventory of bombs capable of penetrating the Natanz nuclear plant, believed to be buried under 30 feet of reinforced concrete, and the Fordo site, which is built into a mountain.
For some reason, the Ynet article failed to list the grave inevitable consequences of any aggression against Iran. Such consequences include destruction of Israeli cities following barrages of Iranian missiles. But we may also bear in mind the possibility of a nuclear conflict that escalates into a global war.
The message to the Israelis is pretty clear. Israel’s military options are running out. There is no way to maintain the Jewish State by the sword. The time is overdue for Israel to drop its expansionist genocidial philosophy. If Israelis really want to live in the region, they must pursue every means towards peace immediately.
Israel should voluntarily open its nuclear facilities to international inspection. Israel must sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and dismantle its own atomic bombs immediately. Israel better grasp what humanity is all about, before it is too late.
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Posted by Gilad Atzmon on Feb 20 2012, With 0 Reads, Filed under Editors Picks, Foreign Relations, Government, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Seems like Gilad is worried Israel will attack.
Israel struts around like it owns the place. Its whole existence depends on the American veto and handouts.
Thanks for this analysis, Gilad. Many of us may are frightened more and more about the actual developments, but it also may be, that there is something more behind all of this.
Perhaps you also read Gordon’s view on this subject. Personally, I’m not shure, what is right and what is wrong, but I try to watch carefully and also stay somewhat ‘relaxed’, because the parties involved can make so much money out of the situation of crisis.
Furthermore there have been so many ‘accidents’, surrounding the ongoing war mongering, that I get the feeling, that – may be – we may be fooled this time, or that there is much more going one.
Look at this French aorcraft carrier break down:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/149065.html
Or these non stop ‘accidents’, all relating to submarines:
http://gizmodo.com/5674028/one+ninth-of-us-nuclear-intercontinental-missiles-down-last-saturday
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/22/us-britain-nuclear-submarine-idUSTRE69L2FJ20101022
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/so-admiral-what-have-you-got-to-say-about-the-nuclear-submarine-crash-1623787.html
http://www.robedwards.com/2011/04/trident-submarine-crippled-by-accident.html
http://www.robedwards.com/2012/02/new-nuclear-submarine-held-up-by-safety-problems.html#more
The real list is even longer, including US, Russian, Indian and other submarines, but the above are relevant in this case. Are these only ‘accidents’? One not so well documented accident with another atomar submarine off the coast of somalia also happened (perhaps, we will here about it later).
GILAD says,
-If Israelis really want to live in the region, they must pursue every means towards peace immediately-..
…
“israelis ” are not welcome in the region anymore.
we hate them deeply.
you dont bomb a school, kill thirty girls hiding in it, come on tv with a stupid smile and apologize
then
come back the very next day – knowing that more girls went back in there, believing the apology, –
and
bomb the same school, killing another thirty girls
and cinically come back on tv and with a similar stupid smile, apologize again
that, sir
earned your so called “israelis”
the slow draining of their blood.
we will never, ever never forget nor forgive
we are arabs.
Gilad youre wrong for that, man
(oh my god,
as i typed this, and as i remembered the little girls, i was so angry my left cheeck kept twicking repeatedly.
i am scared of myself
i totally understand where you come from..I wish i could introduce peace but theu don’t listen..
still got love for ya G