Pentagon official says Bush told Israel to ‘get on with preparations, stand by for immediate attack’ on Iran’s main nuclear sites if diplomatic efforts fail. ‘This administration will not attack Iran. This has already been decided,’ official tells Sunday Times

Kenneth Katzman, a former CIA analyst and author of a book on the Revolutionary Guard told The Times, “Maybe the Israelis could start off the attack and have us (US) finish it off. And maybe that has been their intention all along. But in terms of the long-term military campaign that would be needed to permanently suppress Iran’s nuclear program, only the US is perceived as having that capability right now.”
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Move Bypasses Normal Appropriation Process
By Nathan Guttman
Wed. Jul 02, 2008

Washington - While almost all federally financed programs were denied any funding increase for the coming year, aid to Israel from the United States will increase thanks to a legislative loophole and some deft maneuvering by pro-Israel lobbyists. Continue reading this post…

By Haaretz Service

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An Israeli official said Tuesday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert secretly visited the site of Israel’s main nuclear reactor, against the backdrop of speculation that Israel may attack Iran’s nuclear facilities within the year. Continue reading this post…

By Reuters and Haaretz Service

Israel must destroy Iran’s nuclear program within the next 12 months or risk being attacked with an atomic bomb itself, the former head of the Mossad told the British Sunday Telegraph. Continue reading this post…

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_{By Akiva Eldar}

“If we do not take this step, the national conflict will also assume a dimension of a civil rights conflict. That demand [of civil rights for the Palestinians] will intensify, and will find support in the international community. Its realization will spell the end of Zionism and of Israel as we know it. ”

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