Iran could nuke New York, according to this interactive demonstration from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. I guess that's why Obama's emphasizing nuclear non-proliferation. Thanks to Ali Gharib, who laments the absence of sound effects.
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Gee, if I had a nuke and an ICBM, I could nuke, well . . . . . . . . Capetown!
"Iran could nuke New York …" There are one or two flaws in that argument the most obvious being that Iran does not have any "nukes" and doesn't want any. But apart from that it makes for a great scare story. Now if they had said, "Israel can nuke New York", then that statement would have more validity as Israel does actually possess the necessary technology (nuclear weapons and delivery mechanisms) and is not above making the odd not-so-veiled threats to others. I suggest a re-write of the copy.
Too bad for you, Israel has morals, does not threaten other nations with their nukes and has more friends in New York than anywhere else (more Jews here than anywhere in the world)
Check out the link on the map to "Israel's Requirement for Defensible Borders". (Click on the Israel and its Neighbors tab , then click on the link at the bottom of that map.) Apparently the new hasbara line is that UN Resolution 242, the one that emphasized the inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by war, allows for Israel to establish "defensible borders" which, oh so surprisingly coincide with the eastern border of the Occupied (er, excuse me…"disputed") Territories. So there goes your two state solution. The pretense is gone. Of course, how expanding Israel's borders will help her defend against a fantasized Iranian missile attack is left unexplained, since there is no rational explanation. It doesn't move Israel any farther away from Iranian missiles, it does the opposite. Meanwhile, the strongest military force in the region, the one that has never had its borders breached, needs more military lebensraum, even though for the last 61 years it has been perfectly able to defend its non-"defensible borders", something that can't be said for its militarily weaker neighbors, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
Have you not been paying attention lately?Israel has repeatedly threatened Iran with an attack and has been seeking assistance and/or acceptance from the US of just such an attack. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7440472.st... Seymour Hersh pointed out in "The Samson Option" that Israel had targeted the Soviet Union with nuclear warheads since the 1980's. It also came close to unleashing them in 1973. Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld said in 2002 " We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.' This, BTW, was in response to the second intifada, not to any military threat from another country If you think that any place is safe, then you don't understand the Samson Option. Unfortunately Israeli morals these days justify all sorts of reprehensible acts against civilians.
RE: "Are you in range of an Iranian missile???" SMIRKY THE CHIMP SEZ: Bring it on!
I'm reminded of the enormous ads in the NYT showing how Hamas could shell Brooklyn, Manhattan, and even Jersey City, I think. Why not a map of the world showing 'the U.S. could nuke you at any time'? I'd by that poster;)
Hey them's got death rays! Wicked!
Mumbai, Rome, Kiev, are within range. The shift in power structure from Iran having a "veto" over Russian policies on that merit, is disturbing.
Gates told the House Appropriations Committee. "The missile will have a range of approximately 2000 to 2500km. Because of some of the problems they've had with their engines we think at least at this stage of the testing we think its probably closer to the lower end of that range. Whether it hit the target that it was intended for, I have not seen any information on that." Ahmadinejad said the launch was a test-firing of a new advanced missile with a range of about 1,200 miles, capable of reaching Israel, US Mideast bases, and parts of Europe. – PAMELA HESS AND PAULINE JELINEK, AP News, May 20 The missile’s maximum range still put it well short of the US bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, ostensibly being built for that purpose. – JASON DITZ, AntiWar.com, May 20
Even if this bunk were true about Iran having nuclear weapons and missiles with range to hit NY and said missiles were capability of mounting nuclear warheads, the shift in power structure is likely to be minimal for everyone but Israel. We Americans have Chinese and Russian nukes aimed at us. Iranian missiles aren't going to significantly change the threat of direct attack, or the utility of deterrence of our second strike capability. The primary American interest is non-proliferation. More states with nuclear weapons increase the likelihood of a non-state actor acquiring one. It is in our interest to come to an accommodation with any power that already has or is going to have, i.e. we can't stop them, the capability to manufacture nuclear weapons to prevent the further spread of nuclear weapons manufacture capability. The only way we are going to achieve this objective with Iran is through negotiation. An agreement of this sort is seen by the short-sighted Israeli government as not in their interest because they feel it will diminish the political immunity they have thus far enjoyed to continue ethnic cleansing and colonizing occupied Palestinian territories. However, it most certainly is in our interest. There is a reason that neocons made every attempt they could to destroy American non-proliferation efforts during the Bush administration. They wanted to undermine American attempts at formulating and implementing policies that are clearly in our interest, but which they perceived as not being in Israel's. It is no accident that the Obama administration's immediate emphasis on non-proliferation hit an early roadblock: Israel. Remember the Obama official who wanted Israel to join the NPT? Israeli refusal to participate in internationally recognized monitoring undermines our ability to get everyone else to agree. Obama official: Israel should sign non-nuclear pact http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/06/1004962/ob... jta.org/news/article/2009/05/06/1004962/obama-administration-calls-on-israel-to-sign-npt The choice is clear. Either we act to protect American cities or we act to protect Israeli colonies with apartheid population controls of Jewish-only roads, arbitrary checkpoints, perpetual racist martial law, and arbitrary detention and murder. The press and the public should be hounding for explanations every American official, elected or appointed, who advocates for policies against American interests.
Count the good number of Israel attacks on other nations and peoples since it declared it's existence. Yeah, right, they've always been defensive in nature–like when it joined up with Britain and France back in the day–until Ike clawed back. It has preempted by attack nukes in Iraq and Syria, and is now pressuring the USA to back it up by bombing Iran's potential nuke sites. It never threatens anyone with its "You guess if we have nukes" approach. Which it has of course, and a lot of them. Israel is the most moral nation on earth, and its IDF is the most moral army. Keep buying the Kool-aid, NYNY, but forget about selling it on this blog.
Amazing, the new kid on the block has a couple of rocks to throw–god-forbid there's ever to be some balance of power in the MIddle East–this is a battle for hegemony–Israel wants to keep it solely, and the US is helping it do just that–Metternich might be disappointed, if not Kissinger, who seems to have lost his marbles.