Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Israel Our Home party and Minister of Strategic Affairs, is saying much the same thing openly to the Israelis reports Arutz Sheva:
(IsraelNN.com) Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of Russian immigrant party Yisrael Beiteinu said that the Jewish State will not be able to depend on the international community to protect Israel from the Iranian threat. The Strategic Affairs Minister said bluntly that the world will not defend Israel against a nuclear Iran.
“We will have to face the Iranians alone, Lieberman said in an interview broadcast on Israel Radio. Israel cannot remain with its arms folded, waiting patiently for Iran to develop non-conventional weapons.”
An internal European Union report leaked to the media this week documented that diplomatic interventions have been ineffective and probably will continue to be so.“In practice…the Iranians have pursued their program at their own pace, the limiting factor being technical difficulties rather than resolutions by the United Nations or the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “The problems with Iran will not be resolved through economic sanctions alone,” read the report. “Iran has shown great resilience to outside pressure in the past……” The EU report noted that “At some point we must expect that Iran will acquire the capacity to enrich uranium on the scale required for a weapons program.”
It’s been my personal belief that despite all the high flaunting rhetoric via the US and the EU on the potential dangers of a nuclear armed Iran it just doesn’t translate as anything more tangible than ‘tisk, tisk’ for the Israelis. Americans carry a strong isolationistic core in their national identity while EU member states have a long distinguished history of appeasement in theirs. Let's be blunt - the annals of history are not exactly overflowing with the names of people or countries who have willfully laid down their lives to help or protect the Jews.
And the clock is ticking.
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