War for israel
We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under."(Martin Van Creveld, Professor of Military History at Israel's Hebrew University, September 2003)
And they were quite willing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/opinion/the-last-nuclear-moment.ht ml http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm Hersh, Seymour (1991), The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, Random House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nickel_Grass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Also during the 1973 war, according to Time Magazine, Israel spotted an American SR-71 Blackbird and was ordered to shoot it down:
".... the planewas spotted by Israeli air defenses and two Phantom jets scrambled to intercept it. "I have it on my radar," the Israeli pilot radioed. "It is an
[SR-71] American Blackbird." Back to him came a direct order from a high-ranking Israeli Air Force commander: "Down it." The SR-71, flying effortlessly at 85,000 feet, easily outclimbed and outdistanced the Israelis and returned to its base with significant readings."
---"Violent Week: The Politics of Death," Time, April 12, 1976.
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I'll just touch on the past decade to start. Bin Laden was very open about his motivations to attack America. While I don't necessarily agree with him, they are his motivations nonetheless. "The expansion of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver)
This of course led to Afghanistan and then IRAQ. Bush Officials have openly admitted that The Iraq war was partly "to protect Israel."
"...remarks by Philip Zelikow, who is now the executive director of the body set up to investigate the
And they were quite willing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/opinion/the-last-nuclear-moment.ht ml http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm Hersh, Seymour (1991), The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, Random House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nickel_Grass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Also during the 1973 war, according to Time Magazine, Israel spotted an American SR-71 Blackbird and was ordered to shoot it down:
".... the planewas spotted by Israeli air defenses and two Phantom jets scrambled to intercept it. "I have it on my radar," the Israeli pilot radioed. "It is an
[SR-71] American Blackbird." Back to him came a direct order from a high-ranking Israeli Air Force commander: "Down it." The SR-71, flying effortlessly at 85,000 feet, easily outclimbed and outdistanced the Israelis and returned to its base with significant readings."
---"Violent Week: The Politics of Death," Time, April 12, 1976.
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I'll just touch on the past decade to start. Bin Laden was very open about his motivations to attack America. While I don't necessarily agree with him, they are his motivations nonetheless. "The expansion of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver)
This of course led to Afghanistan and then IRAQ. Bush Officials have openly admitted that The Iraq war was partly "to protect Israel."
"...remarks by Philip Zelikow, who is now the executive director of the body set up to investigate the