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Chuck Hagel Green Lights Israeli Attacks On Syria and Iran
On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel did penance for his perceived sins against Israel. The former senator from Nebraska was criticized during his confirmation process by the likes of John McCain for not joining the march to war against Iran. Hagel’s opposition to sanctions against Iran were considered antisemitic.
Chuck Hagel talks with Israeli soldiers, April 23, 2013. Photo: Secretary of Defense.
South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham went so far as to say that Hagel “would be the most antagonistic Secretary of Defense towards the state of Israel in our nation’s history.”
All doubt was put to rest on Tuesday when Hagel met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. Hagel green lighted an attack on Iran, dispersing any remaining doubt about his past. The Wall Street Journal described Hagel’s transformation as a “recasting” and said he “expanded a U.S. charm offensive aimed at Israel while advancing an Israeli objective – trying to convince Iran that it faces a realistic military threat as it continues to rebuff Western diplomatic efforts.”
During a news conference delivered from Israel’s military headquarters, Hagel stressed that Israel and the United States are in “complete” agreement on Iran policy. He reiterated that Israel, as a sovereign state, has a right to attack Iran for its as of yet unsubstantiated nuclear weapons program.
He said there’s no “daylight” or “gap” between the United States and Israel when it comes to taking out Iran’s nuclear reactors (and, although unstated, its military and civilian infrastructure). In order to accomplish this, Hagel said the United States has agreed to sell Israel more military hardware, including V-22 Osprey transport aircraft and air refueling tankers that will be used in the coming attack. Hagel insisted the arms deal is meant to send a message to Iran.
Sending advanced refueling tanker planes, crucial for an attack, is something not even the neocon administration of George W. Bush was willing to do.
Oddly, U.S. officials believe affirming Israel’s desire take out Iran and selling it more sophisticated military technology will make an attack less likely.
In addition to backing Israel’s “sovereign” right to attack Iran, Hagel demonstrated the Obama administration’s support for Israeli attacks inside Syria. Hagel and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon flew within five kilometers of the Syrian border and approximately 30 miles from Damascus in an Israeli Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
On Monday, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported that Jordan has decided to allow Israel to use its airspace to stage raids inside Syria. The newspaper noted two routes that will be opened to Israel – a southern route from the Negev and a route through Amman. The agreement will allow Israel to avoid flying over southern Lebanon.
In January, Israel bombed a Syrian military research center in Jamraya. “We don’t think [Syria] should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon,” Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak told international diplomats in Germany after the attack. He said the attack, which killed five people, was “proof that when we say something we mean it.”
6 Comments on "Chuck Hagel Green Lights Israeli Attacks On Syria and Iran"
GregT on Tue, 23rd Apr 2013 3:52 pm
Let me get this straight. The US taxpayers give Israel billions of dollars annually in aid, and then Israel uses this money to buy American made “military hardware”?
So, the US taxpayer is basically supporting US weapons manufacturers and paying for War in the middle east. At the same time, one in six of those same taxpayers cannot even afford to eat?
There is something seriously wrong with this picture.
Arthur on Tue, 23rd Apr 2013 6:16 pm
“So, the US taxpayer is basically supporting US weapons manufacturers and paying for War in the middle east. At the same time, one in six of those same taxpayers cannot even afford to eat? ”
That’s it. Oh, you forgot to mention the kids of said taxpayers, who are supposed to be sacrificed in a possible war as well.
I wonder when the tipping point in the US will be reached for counter measures.
moli on Tue, 23rd Apr 2013 7:13 pm
cowardice does not bring about a tipping point. . sheeple only dumb down more and get moved on.peak oil has given us peak arrogance and peak oppression (along with much understanding of the world of cause and effect..science) however the aggression will be countered from where it least expects.and it is only right that in Gods world arrogance is utterly humiliated and humbled.
BillT on Wed, 24th Apr 2013 2:15 am
The entire West has been kissing the Israeli but for decades. NATO sends men, materials and money to every fight the US picks around the world. Who are the fools, besides the sheeple in the US? ALL of NATO, that’s who.
Bloomer on Wed, 24th Apr 2013 5:00 am
US misadventure in the middle east has already cost the deaths of 10’s of thousands people and laid waste to their domestic economy. I agree that Israel should have a right to exist in peace. But, I disagree with their policy of expropriation of their neighbours’ land.
Arthur on Wed, 24th Apr 2013 8:36 am
“The entire West has been kissing the Israeli but for decades.”
That’s a benign view of reality. It is more realistic to accept the view that ‘Israel’, or rather their sons & daughters living in the West in fact RULED the west. But we can’t accept that view, can’t we, because it would put the struggle of Hitler in a different light. No longer was he sadistically fighting a poor oppressed minority just for fun, but rather a group that had the potential of taking over Germany (via their Bolshevik ideology). But that was exactly what WW2 was: a war of the jews against the European world or the ‘white race’, a war the jews could wage because they already had captured the eastern slavic and western cowbow wings of the white race against the core of Europe. ‘Rus’ means ‘Viking’. What happened between 1917-1923 in Russia was that the Germanic dominated Russian power structure was systematically murdered and replaced by a jewish dominated power structure. The takeover of the US could not happen in this way and was spread out over a century in a series of landmark events (capture of the FED by ‘international’ bankers, US WW1 entry (Samuel Untermeyer), (Dutch sefardic) Roosevelt government, his recognition of the USSR in 1933, the pushing of Britain and France into the Polish war garantee by Roosevelt’s righthand man in Europe William Bullitt, Pearl Harbor engineering, Nuremberg trial (6 million story), Bretton Woods/Harry Dexter White, gradual taking over of the media, JFK assasination (LBJ, Jitzak Rabin), 1965 immigration act, 9/11) and is still underway; likely Newtown and Boston needs to be added to the list as well in an effort of the Bloomboig’s and Fainstajn’s to disarm Euro-America.
Yet they lost, although they could hold on to the US. Russia, China, muslim world are NOT part of the now melting NWO and Europe only half (witnessing the behavior of Germany and France in 2003). And the internet will make sure that the carefully constructed pack of media lies are going to be ‘deconstructed’ on a global scale. Time is now working against the NWO, that could only have come into existence on the back of economic growth, read fossil fuels, providing the means to keep competing groups under one US roof. The US is literally running out of steam to accomplish world government, the recognition of which will have decisive implications for the attitude of the US-Euro’s (who carry the society) towards Washington and could be tempted to try to escape from an entity that tries to use them for global domination aims, no longer in the interest of the Euro’s (because these aims have become unrealistic). If they succeed is a different matter.