President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have bandied
thousands of words in their dispute over an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear
sites. For a time, their argument muffled the abiding ambition of the Islamic
Republic to destroy Israel - come what may.
However, the message roared by
Iranian leaders over last weekend - before and after Al Quds Day - was quite
simply this: Israel must be destroyed, irrespective of whether or not it attacks
the Islamic Republic
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was cheered by half a million demonstrators in
Tehran shouting: Death to Israel! Death to America! when he declared Israel is a
"cancerous tumor" that will soon be finished off in the new Middle East. He
called “the Zionist regime’s existence an insult to all humanity.”
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: “The fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from
the landscape of geography,”
And although both were severely rebuked by world leaders for their violent
invective, it continued to pour out of Tehran in a comment by Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Chief, Brig. Gen. Amir Hajizadeh who
said an Israeli attack would be welcome “as a pretext to get rid of Israel for
good."
Israel’s new Home Defense Minister Avi Dichter laid it out in plain language:
While Syria, Lebanon and Gaza confront Israel with a strategic threat, Iran
imperils our very existence.”
Certain Western intelligence sources were reminded of a speech by Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 2006 when he quoted a Holocaust survivor as
saying: “My main lesson from the Holocaust is that if someone tells you he is
going to exterminate you, believe him. And I add to that. Believe him and stop
him!”
Six years later, those sources now suggest, after America’s top soldier
Gen. Martin Dempsey offered the opinion that Israel can no longer destroy Iran’s
nuclear weapon capacity – only delay it , that Netanyahu may be willing to go
further: Not only to stop them, but kill them.
They are quietly using the
term “decapitation.”
They point to the Israeli Mossad’s long record of targeted covert operations
for dealing with past and would-be annihilators: In the fifties, the Mossad
captured the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Operational Finale.
In the seventies, Golda Meir ordered Operation Wrath of God to hunt down and
pick off one by one the Palestinian Black September murderers of 11 Israeli
sportsmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
In February 2008, Iran’s senior
terrorist operations commander, Hizballah’s Imad Mughniyeh, was liquidated in
Damascus, so ending a bloody career of assassinations, terrorism and abductions
against US and other Western targets as well as Israel.
Hizballah’s chief
Hassan Nasrallah knows the score: He has spent six years hunkered down in a
fortified bunker, taking care never to broadcast his inflammatory speeches
calling for Israel’s destruction live, only by video.
It cannot be ruled out
that this point, Israel may decide to disable Iran’s nuclear program by going
for its leaders.
Debkafile Report
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