In his address to the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies, Yaalon said Israel was in a proxy war with Iran due to its sponsorship of Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas.
“There is no doubt, looking at the overall situation, that we are already in a military confrontation with Iran,” he said. “Iran is the main motivator of those attacking us.”
To be honest, I am surprised that this is news. I don’t mean that in a smart ass way towards you, just that this does not seem like new info. Though much of it was assumption on my part. I just don’t see that Israel can do anything else. The problems over there are not going to go away all of a sudden.
The asymmetric nature of the conflict between Israel & Iran recently illustrated in the summer 2006 war in Lebanon, IMHO.
It is if you “all of a sudden” you mean many many megatons worth of nuclear ordnance lol
Either way, I agree with you. Nothing new, and not going anywhere within the foreseeable future…
I think it is going somewhere soon and you can quote me on that. Within two years.
I think you are right. What I want to know is how it ends.
I wholeheartedly agree. Again, I just don’t see that Israel can do anything else.
That is the trillion dollar question
In that case it is time to stock up on IMI ammunition 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2461421.ece
This is from September 2007. The Israelis will not let Iran get nukes. The interesting part of the Israeli strike on Syria is that Syria and Iran both have the same air defense equipment provided by Russia. Which totally failed to detect the Israelis. An Indian army officer in Iran said that in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Syria the Iranian military crapped on themselves. They were counting on their air defense network that has been proven worthless.
I can only think the Israelis are holding back for political reasons, but when it is time they will go.
As a side note, the Iranian government is not very stable. The population of Iran is very westernized and against their government. In Israeli strike may topple the Iranian government.
I listened to a interview of Richard Clarke not too long ago. He talked about this being one of the biggest successes of a military hacking someones system to support an operation. He said that the Israelis were able to hack their system so that it did not light up when they came in to hit the target. He said that they also used it to shut down some of their communications. So I wonder if the Iranians have the same weak spots
I heard postulations that it was some jamming that was so good they did not know they were being jammed. But hacking the system make sense.
The day that Israel will hit Iran is coming, there is no question about that. The questions are when will it happen?
Will the Obama administration help, hinder, oppose the attack and what will the Obama administrations reaction will be if Israel does it anyway against the administrations opposition?
I have no doubt in my mind that they will do it one way or another with or without Americas help or blessing because they have to do it or risk getting hit by a nuclear weapon and most of us know that Israel is over with with one hit.
Is it possible Israel is just waiting for a friendlier United States Government?
Seems like Obama and co. have made no secret about how they really feel about Israel despite what may have been said to the press recently.
As I said Israel can not afford to wait for anybody or anything because their very existence is at stake. But they might be giving a chance to the Obama administration to see the light and change their attitude towards Israel when they see that Israel waited until it could wait no more.
99% of the world hates Israel already for simply existing, so I can see them going for broke striking Iran.
It sucks that hardly anybody is supporting Israel in this. Even the US wants to take the approach of, ohh poor iran, its their right to seek nuclear “power”:rolleyes: Like Iran is building nuclear power plants… Why is it that nobody supports Israel striking Iran even though Iran has publicly stated that it intends to strike Israel? I mean I know that I and other individuals support them but its like the number of countries that did support them is dropping off to nill as the conflict brews.
I just wonder how many countries are going to get stirred into the mix when the shtf, WWIII?! I mean hell, when you start talking nukes its not just mortar and missile strikes anymore. Next 2 years for sure:(
And desert eagles:D I got a mint little baby eagle that might go up in price:p
It is going to be more Iranian/Persian rugs that will be scarce and going up in price after Israel strikes them not baby eagles or desert eagles.;)
I’ve heard that there is a large Jewish population in Iran. Wouldn’t an Israeli strike give the Iranian Hitler and his mullahs an excuse to harm these folks?
After an Israeli surgical strike it will be clear to Amahandjob and his mullah’s that they can stay alive or call on themselves total destruction by their actions, the choice is going to be theirs.;)
I do not think that there is a large Jewish population in Iran, at best there is a very small one and frankly it was their choice to stay or leave. Many Iranian Jews left and are living in Israel and other parts of the world a very long time ago.
I hate to say that but when it comes to the question of Israels survival and a few thousand Jews being put at risk the choice is clear.