Comments on: Israel Attacking Iran? Five Reasons for Doubt http://southjerusalem.com/2008/07/israel-attacking-iran-five-reasons-for-doubt/ A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:35:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: seefweetz http://southjerusalem.com/2008/07/israel-attacking-iran-five-reasons-for-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-1054 seefweetz Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:50:09 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=232#comment-1054 There's an old saying that, if you're going to shoot the king, you'd better kill him. So even if we succeed in totally wiping out Iran's nuclear capabilities (a long shot, to say the least), there'd still be an Iran, with Khameini and the other mullahs still in control. They'd retaliate against Israel and the U.S. if the U.S. had aunched the attack, and against the U.S. and Israel if Israel had launched the attack. And Europe too would become a target in both cases. Target for what? For continuing terrorism carried out by Iran and its sympathizers. I think we'd be sorry that we ever started it. A military strike, like the one against Saddam, that when the celebrating is over, would begin to look increasingly ineffectual, for forever and a day. There’s an old saying that, if you’re going to shoot the king, you’d better kill him. So even if we succeed in totally wiping out Iran’s nuclear capabilities (a long shot, to say the least), there’d still be an Iran, with Khameini and the other mullahs still in control. They’d retaliate against Israel and the U.S. if the U.S. had aunched the attack, and against the U.S. and Israel if Israel had launched the attack. And Europe too would become a target in both cases. Target for what? For continuing terrorism carried out by Iran and its sympathizers. I think we’d be sorry that we ever started it. A military strike, like the one against Saddam, that when the celebrating is over, would begin to look increasingly ineffectual, for forever and a day.

]]> By: Christopher Feld http://southjerusalem.com/2008/07/israel-attacking-iran-five-reasons-for-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Christopher Feld Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:55:52 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=232#comment-938 Indeed, in order to mount an effective strike that may neutralize Iran's nuclear infrastructure, Israel would need U.S. authorization to refuel over Iraq. Although Washington's "amber light" for Israel may be a scare tactic to deter the Iranians for continuing its uranium enrichment program, an Israel attack would be utterly counterproductive to Israeli interests. If Israel does possess nuclear weapons, it may not want to expose it as an effective attack would require mini nuke "bunker busting" bombs. Physicians for Social Responsibility conducted a model using the Department of Defenses' simulators and found that such an attack would result in over 2.4 million dead. For a copy of the report: http://psr.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=security_main_iranfactsheet Iran will surely respond to an Israeli attack of such magnitude and the Israelis understand this. Indeed, in order to mount an effective strike that may neutralize Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Israel would need U.S. authorization to refuel over Iraq.

Although Washington’s “amber light” for Israel may be a scare tactic to deter the Iranians for continuing its uranium enrichment program, an Israel attack would be utterly counterproductive to Israeli interests. If Israel does possess nuclear weapons, it may not want to expose it as an effective attack would require mini nuke “bunker busting” bombs.

Physicians for Social Responsibility conducted a model using the Department of Defenses’ simulators and found that such an attack would result in over 2.4 million dead. For a copy of the report:

http://psr.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=security_main_iranfactsheet

Iran will surely respond to an Israeli attack of such magnitude and the Israelis understand this.

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