The ‘Dissonance’ website reports thus:

1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and
Washington’s chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.

2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.

3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to
submit to inspections. Israel refused.

4. Iran’s formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the
backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.

5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.

6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both
caught off guard by Iran’s announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US
or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran’s notified the
IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel
seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel’s claims to
“know” that Iran is a nuclear threat.

7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in
agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.

8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs
showing Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at
Dimona.

9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran,
leading up to Israel’s bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the
invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station
at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.

10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing
report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against
humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as “Anti-
Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States
will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the
Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.

11. Recently revealed documents prove not only that Israel has nuclear weapos,
but actually tried to sell some to Apartheid South Africa. Who else Israel
approached to sell nuclear weapons remains an unasked question.

12. In 1965, Israel stole over 200-600 pounds of weapons-grade uranium
from the United States.

13. Declassified documents from the former South African regime prove not
only that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades, but has tried to sell them
to other countries!
We all need to be Joe Wilson right now. We need to stand up and scream,
“LIAR!” at every politician and every talking media moron that is pushing this
war in Iran. And we need to keep dong it until they get the message that we
will not be deceived any more.
Israel wants to send your kids off to die in Iran, and YOU are the only one that
can stop them.

My comment: Imagine how much money we’ve given Israel since the day in
1967 when Moshe Dayan gave direct orders to his air force pilots to attack and
sink the USS Liberty, resulting in over thirty deaths of our servicemen and the
wounding of scores more.  Indeed: NEVER FORGET!

Good, I hope the Russians also give them S-400’s to protect it against terrorists.

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gerard,

Yep, it is on commondreams site, here is a quote:

“But the article provides new evidence that senior figures in the
Israeli intelligence and military leadership oppose such a strike
against Iran and believe that Netanyahu’s apocalyptic rhetoric
about an Iranian nuclear threat as an “existential threat” is
unnecessary and self-defeating.”

Here is the link:

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/13-7

Coincidence or what? Whatever, I believe it to be Russia inserting
its self into the matter which for all appearances is for the good.

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By gerard, August 13 at 5:45 pm

If your comment is for me, please excuse my sarcasm. I don’t
really think the u.s. is interested in invading Russia whom I
believe to be a deterrent at least for nuclear exchanges or an
invasion of Russia, though milton friedman’s world class school
of economics pulled off a devastating invasion in its own sense
and from that, I would suspect Russia to be willing to prevent
such a reoccurrence.

I also read somewhere else today that izrael may have stopped
thinking Iran to be a suitable target for attack. I’ll see if I can
find that and provide a link.

Read the small print:

“Al Jazeera’s Anand Naidoo, reporting from Washington, said American officials believe “this [agreement] shows that Iran will not need its own nuclear enrichment facilities if it is going to be getting nuclear enriched fuel from the Russians”.

“Russia said the Bushehr plant is monitored by the IAEA and has no link with Iran’s uranium enrichment programme.

“‘It is highly unlikely that the Russians did this without the approval of the United States,’ Naidoo said.”

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There it is. No better reason for the u.s. to invade Russia, after
which with the backing of izrael, we invade Iran. Reason,
because Iran’s first nuclear reactor is for making power whereby
the Iranians can sell their oil to whom they please and that is
just totally a ‘cannot do’ situation; that oil belongs to american
interests, in their own minds.