posted on Jan, 5 2009 @ 07:31 PM
reply to post by ProfEmeritus
This entire act is a contingency plan that Israel has been planning for 6 months, to be used prior to Jan. 20 IF Obama was elected. Since Obama has
been elected, their intelligence has told them that it is probably that he would not support a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
I honestly do not think this is true. With Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, I truly believe that Obama only offers the illusion of change to the
agitated and frustrated left.
I think the push is to keep him clean for as long as he can be kept clean so he can appeal to the left and centrist pacifist to empathize with him
further down the road, that he is just trying to get us out of someone else’s mess the right way, but we Americans will nonetheless have to fight
and spill blood as a consequence of his predecessors mistakes.
Likewise I see Iran testing the diplomatic waters for a wider Islamic response to the crisis is Gaza, knowing full well there will be no takers. The
posturing alone will give them some added sense of moral authority and will put pressure on moderate Arab states where Sunni Muslims have a majority
to better consider their Shiite minority while enhancing Iran’s stature amongst the poorer classes in the region.
Conversely I think Iran is looking for both credibility and the moral high ground with Western nations and would not risk a direct military overture
primarily for that reason. To tell you the truth I wouldn’t put it past them loading up the ship with doves trained to carry white carnations in
their mouths and releasing them into the skies when their aide ship is turned around. They will come out looking like a winner all the way around.
Russia has drawn a line in the sand over Georgia. They have docked warships in Cuba in the past month, joined the Venezuelan Navy in joint naval
exercises in the last month, and sailed warships through the Panama Canal in the last month in a display of protest. That the push from Israel and the
United States to attack Iran is so obvious the Russians have upped their outlay of Russian scientists to post into the facilities is a clear message
from the Russians that any act of aggression that kills Russian citizens would be considered tantamount to an act of war. Iran knows this and can
posture, score political points, and gain favorable press without having to jeopardize a thing. Iran’s decision to back the Sunni Hamas organization
and extort the Shiite Hezbollah of Lebanon to find solidarity with them while extolling the Shiite majority in his own country to support the Sunni
Palestinians cause and being almost their sole champions in the entire Islamic world is something that no doubt has leaders from Damascus, to Cairo to
Riyadh distressed.
While the heavy handed and disproportionate tactics of the IDF are dividing the Christian west in many regards, they might end up unifying the long
divided East and cause the pyridine shift to touch off the civil strife in the West that evens the playing field when the west’s dominant victors
march off to face a better unified and more cohesive East.
I truly believe as usual they are telling us everything and we just aren’t listening through all the noise of our own bickering. If scriptures are
as some contend simply a script for a plan to bring about a New World Order, and that final act is about fighting over Jerusalem and the IDF is in
fact conducting an operation called Cast Lead, who all is in the Cast and just what successive act does follow the Lead?