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October 19, 2007
See No Proliferation
Below, a fine editorial from, who else, The Wall Street journal.
Seraphic Secret would like to remind its readers that back in 1981, when Israel, in Operation Opera , bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear facility, this necessary military action was condemned by ever major editorial page in America—except for the Wall Street Journal.
Of course, Israel's preemptive strike was rational and necessary for a nuclear Iraq posed
not only an existential threat to Israel, but in the hands of Saddam Hussein, a tyrant who never blinked at murdering hundreds of thousands of people, this weapon would have afforded him genocidal power over his other neighbors.
We are still waiting for the editorial staff of The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc. to admit that their screeds against Israel were not only wrong, but in hindsight truly foolish.
We will wait forever, for as Dennis Prager has said: “Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry.”
Israel's latest strike, deep into Syrian territory, presumably on a North Korean/Syrian nuclear facility has drawn a great heaving silence from the Arab world.
This indicates two things: The Arabs are relieved that the Syrian nuclear ambitions have been shut down. Certainly the Egyptians and the Saudis are thrilled. They have no love for Syria or Puppy Assad, the weak tyrant. But it also means that the Arab regimes are deeply intimidated by Israel's ability to shut down Syria's "advanced" ground defense systems.
Modern Russian systems.
In fact, the Israelis jammed the Russian radar so effectively that the Syrians did not even know that they were being jammed.
No doubt, the Syrians would like a refund from the Russians.
All this leads to Iran.
The Persians have vowed to eliminate Israel. The Persians are, by some estimates, about sixteen months from going hot. Israel cannot allow Iran to go nuclear.
America, stuck in a terrible repeat of Carter and Clinton's desperate peace-making attempts between Israel and her implacable Arab enemies—the Arabs have no desire for peace, no desire to build a state, only to destroy a state—seems incapable of dealing effectively with the Iranian threat. Diplomacy and sanctions are a dead issue. They have never worked against any tyrant ever.
Israel will have to do the job.
The silence from the Bush Administration over Israel's recent bombing of a site in Syria gets louder by the day. U.S. officials continue to look the other way, even as reports multiply that Israel and U.S. intelligence analysts believe the site was a partly constructed nuclear reactor modeled after a North Korean design.
The weekend was full of reports about these intelligence judgments, first in the U.S. media then picked up by the Israeli press. Israel's former chief of military intelligence, Major General Aharon Zeevi Farkash, called them "logical." That's the term of art people use to confirm things in Israel when they want to get around the military censors.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Israel and offered her own non-confirmation confirmation. "We're very concerned about any evidence of, any indication of, proliferation," she said, according to the New York Times. "And we're handling those in appropriate diplomatic channels." Just what you need when your enemies are caught proliferating nuclear expertise--a little more diplomacy. The world is lucky Israel preferred to act against the threat, in what seems to have been a smaller version of its 1981 attack against Iraq's Osirak reactor.
To read the entire editorial, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend and Fox Business Network Producer Jake Novak
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at October 19, 2007 05:52 AM
Comments
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1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
But isn't progress a good thing? :)
Posted by: tnspr569 at October 19, 2007 07:50 AM
Tnspr:
Progress is great—except when it takes you backwards.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.seraphicpress.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 19, 2007 10:49 AM
I have always admired Israel for knowing how to keep itself safe. Good for them.
I can only hope our next president has the same courage - chutzpah? - to do to Iran what Iran wants to do to the rest of the world, starting with Israel.
Posted by: Mommynator at October 20, 2007 07:54 AM
Mommynator:
It seems to us that Israel has no choice. She will attack Iranian nuclear facilities. The only question is when and by what means.
If Iran is allowed to go nuclear then strategically, Israel will be at Iran's mercy.
Obviously, this is not desirable for Israel or the free world.
Except for many Democrats who just don't seem to mind.
Thanks so much for writing.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at October 20, 2007 07:34 PM