Time to calm down, folks ....

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Sunday details of what it said was an official foreign ministry document stating that Israel does not intend to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in the near future. At the same time, an Israeli Knesset member, Isaac Ben-Israel, told the newspaper Maariv that incoming Prime Minister Tzipi Livni “believes that if Iran’s nuclear project is not stopped by the world, Israel will have to attack.” Ben-Israel also stated that Iran will need another two to three years to attain a crude nuclear device, and did not discuss how long it would take to develop a deliverable nuclear weapon (as opposed to a device that can be detonated in a controlled environment). Ben-Israel, a reserve major general, had been involved in planning the strike on the Iraqi reactor in 1981, was close to outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and does not tend to speak on these matters without authorization.

The leak and the statement taken together indicates the state of current Israeli thinking on Iran and represents a substantial shift from the Israelis’ public position in the early summer, when they ostentatiously executed exercises in Greece that were intended as a signal of Israeli capabilities against Iran. Since then, U.S. rhetoric against Iran has cooled substantially; the Russo-Georgia war supplanted it first, followed by the global financial crisis. U.S. interest in Iran subsided, as the Russians and Chinese blocked any chance of new sanctions against Iran, and with it any chance of meaningful diplomatic inroads.

In effect, the Bush administration is over and Israel is expecting to deal with Barack Obama for the next four years. Obviously, a strike against Iran in the last few months of a Bush administration would not endear Israel to Obama, nor do the Israelis regard such an attack as an urgent necessity. Since their national security is actually not in immediate jeopardy, the Israelis are signaling Obama that they will hold and wait for his strategy to be revealed. They are holding open the option to attack, but showing that they do not need to attack before Obama is anchored. Certainly, they do not plan to create a crisis prior to the election.

What we are seeing here is Israel resetting its clock — both in terms of its own change of leadership and, more importantly, in terms of the American change of leadership. Obama, if elected, will not be in office until late January and — in accordance with standard operating procedures for new administrations — will not have a functioning foreign policy team in place until late spring. What the Israelis have done with the leak and Ben-Israel’s statement is reset the clock on the Iranian nuclear program as well. They are letting Obama know that they don’t plan to deliver a crisis to his doorstep as soon as he takes office. The message might have been very different if it looked like John McCain would win, but at the moment that’s not what the polls show. Hence, a new insight into the Iranian threat.

This is interesting in its own right. But it is even more interesting as a harbinger of the world resetting its clock based on the new election. The French have asked for a series of global summits to deal with the global financial crisis, with the first to begin after the U.S. election — and the last and most important to be held after inauguration day, one may be certain. Everything is being recalibrated to the expectation of a new American president. It is interesting to see whether the Russians, for example, will see this as a time for caution or boldness. Either way, it is a special time.

This shows two things. The first is how flexible many international crises are. They can wait for changes in political leadership. The second is how important the United States remains. If the United States had lost its leadership role, as many Europeans fantasize, French President Nicolas Sarkozy would not be in Washington getting the Americans to agree to a summit. The rest of the world, far more important than the United States, would proceed by itself. But of course, that isn’t going to happen. The Europeans and Asians meeting by themselves would not be in a position to make any decisions. For that, the Americans need to be there. And since the Americans won’t have a new leader until February, the world financial crisis will just have to wait until then. As will the Israel-Iranian crisis.

Until the United States has a new president and he has his team in place, the world will simply have to wait. That irritates the world greatly, but it reaffirms the realities of global power, with or without Lehman Brothers.

p.s.when you have seen this video(previous post),click on the related YOUTUBE videos too(some speakers were harassed and threatened for speaking out).
Hmmmmmmm! What can Israel have to POSSIBLY hide???

Tie it ALL in with this and HOW OBVIOUS DOES it have to be TO Americans!
Most of the White House 'crew' cooking up 9/11 are dual citizen Israel/Americans.
There's a lot of documented evidence behind all this TOO,most of it now "classified" LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mKX4gftx74

Peace,Salaam,Shalom!

ISRAEL ASKS US FOR ARMS AND AN AIR CORRIDOR TO ATTACK IRAN!

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1019989.html

I hope America said "f*** you" for the sake of all who have died for the LIES of 9/11.

This is a NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANT for Iranian national energy,not for developing WEAPONS LIKE DIMONA!
Ask the IAEA,the UN,the EU,and Nuclear non-proliferation Commision.
If Israel are crazy enough to go ahead with this LUNACY,they sign their OWN f****** death-warrants and will loose what International credibility they HAVE LEFT!
Peace ,Salaam,Shalom!

You know what! If Israel wants to attack Iran,THEN GO ON,let them!

http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=13418

And when Iran HITS back,as they WOULD BE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO DO,I reckon Israel will very QUICKLY find out how many REAL FRIENDS they have left,either in the United States of America OR the EUROPEAN Union/Britain!
Because both Continents(Politicians and population)are getting so p***** off with having to POLITELY 'sweep up',with our childrens lives and their National future pensions,Israels sh**,every time they come RUNNING for help after doing something TOTALLY LUDICROUS and PARANOID!
And they bring it ALL on THEMSELVES,by their very arrogance,selfishness and EGO!

Iran DOES NOT have Nuclear weapons.Israel DOES(ILLEGALLY),300+.
Iran COMPLIES with IAEA regulations and REGULAR INTERNATIONAL inspections. Israel REPEATEDLY REFUSES TO(illegally).
Israel has ALREADY thumbed its nose at Europe,UN,and Geneva Conventions. Iran NEVER HAS!
Israel,you cannot RIDE ON THIS WW2 holocaust wave of pity for ever.
Especially when the international PITY you treasure ,as a tool of arbitrary forgiveness,is lessening,daily,by your very inhumane actions to your INDIGENOUS NEIGHBOURS!
Israel doesn't even realise,that with every extra inch of the concrete,barbed-wire,electrified wall they build,to keep the Palestinians OUT,they are entrapping themselves IN THEIR OWN POW camp too!
Jeez! Only Israel could be SO f****** STUPID!
It's about time they woke up to modern day reality instead of the Old Testament or the 1800-1900's.
Don't expect patience or sympathy from Sarkozy either,he's French and France goes way back with Syria!LOL!

Peace,Salaam and HOPEFULLY Shalom!

OKAY! You think McCain "hates war",READ THIS and wonder how we,the USA,and Israel have the RIGHT to call ANYONE ELSE TERRORISTS!
Then go and sign your kids up for War! And buy them a DECENT KEFLAR VEST!
Because unless AMERICANS wake up,Israel is GOING TO LEAD US STRAIGHT INTO ANOTHER WAR!
God Forgive US! America being LEAD BY,or allowing,TERRORISTS(Israel)to lead us into UNWARRANTED PRE-EMPTIVE,otherwise NON IMMINENT war IS UNFORGIVEABLE.
This is ALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF ISRAEL AND AIPAC to use OUR SOVEREIGN Oval Office(while Bush is OCCUPYING IT),to UNCONDITIONALLY support Israel in AN INTERNATIONALLY CRIMINAL ACT OF WAR!

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13401

Considering that the ONLY OPENLY 'secret'Nuclear weapons processing plant sitting under ANY REACTOR in the WHOLE of the Middle East,is in f****** D-I-M-O-N-A- Israel,which by it's own deluded "chosen" arrogance REFUSES to sign the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,the idea of THEM attacking Iran,which is itself transparent and accessible to the IAEA,
is FUNNIER than John McInsanes new V.P.(Viagra Pick) nominee! LOL!LOL!

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67937§ionid=351020202

Or it would be funny if the Israeli Government WERE NOT so insanely paranoid.

Peace,Salaam,Shalom!