Act for Israel says, “Stop nuclear Iran!”
A group called Act for Israel tweeted this picture today with the line “Stop Nuclear Iran!“
Act for Israel says it states that it’s “committed to representing Israel’s interests through the use of new media.”
A lot of Israeli security types are on Act for Israel’s “leadership” board, including Gabi Ashkenazi, the army chief of staff during Cast Lead onslaught. Also many Americans. From Sharone Levinson’s bio:
Sharone is a proud American citizen… For the past few years, Sharone has been dismayed by the efficient and organized use of the Internet to spread misinformation and lies about Israel.
From Act for Israel’s website:
Act For Israel is the leading digital platform for pro-Israel activism. We rely on the latest Internet-based technology to win the war on ideas. We believe that Israel has the right to live in peace and security, and that all people deserve the right to live in dignity. Our goal is to share this centrist position with a wide audience to correct misinformation, end demonization, stop delegitimization, and to give Israel a well-needed voice.Our goal is to share our centrist position with a wide audience to correct misinformation, end demonization, stop delegitimization, and to give Israel a well-needed voice.
Also there’s this guy on the leadership of Act for Israel, Dan Goldman. Dan looks halfway reasonable. Does he want to nuke Iran?
Dan Goldman has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry building compelling consumer sites, services and products. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of WorldLive Mobile, a startup building cutting-edge mobile applications for fans and brands. Dan has served as CTO at Zedge – the leading mobile social network – that has grown to over 18 million registered users – and earlier for several major Internet brands including iVillage and drspock.com, where he built and launched multiple online properties.
Updated: This post originally said that Act for Israel was calling for nuking Iran. Paul Mutter and other commenters pointed out that it could mean that Act for Israel believes Iran is going to nuke Israel. I changed my headline. Though it’s scare tactics, anyway you cut it.
I don’t get this. Is the pic suggesting that Israel should nuke Iran, or is the pic describing what will happen to Israel if Iran continues it’s nuclear program?
Either way, it’s sinister, hyperbolic and kind of funny that there’s yet another group been formed to defend Israel. Aren’t AIPAC, ‘Hasbro’ (I think it’s fitting. They manufacture things for people with infantile minds) and the others doing a good enough job?
What is this, some sort of fighting hasbara with hasbara?
The nuke pic is obviously meant to depict what will happen to Israel if Iran isn’t stopped. If I understand your headline, and I hope I’m mistaken, you are contorting this into a “call” to nuke Iran????
It’s an attempt to terrify Israelis and to put pressure on the Iranian talks.
Everybody needs to take it down a notch, dude.
It is really a shame that at this important time MJ Rosenberg is not over at a major news site offering up information that may inform the masses and wake them up out of their controlled narrative induced slumber that will more than likely lead the world into a neocon war of choice which will destroy innocent iranian lives and cause untold financial chaos, but as long as the few can benefit from these wars i guess it will be full steam ahead, damn the torpedos.
September 2002
Rice acknowledged that “there will always be some uncertainty” in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon but said, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” (source: everywhere)
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Leatherface – Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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Azazel – Fallen
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Damien – The Omen
This ramping up of things is just another (relatively tiny) thing that, in addition to a whole lot of bigger things makes me rather suspicious that we are getting close to seeing an Israeli attack on Iran.
I never thought we were that close in years past, but I’d at least put the chances now at a good spit over 50%.
Netanyahu and Co. were beating the drums about it *very* hot and heavy at the beginning of the year—to the point where Obama’s people were out there openly saying they suspect a near-term strike are trying to restrain Israel from doing so—but then suddenly after Bibi meets with Obama around AIPAC time things oddly got very very muted on both sides. Indeed, with Israeli outlets suddenly suggesting that Bibi might be giving things a year or so and allowing sanctions time … much of which easily seeming designed to get Iran to let down its guard as much as possible.
Following clear Israeli leads/demands then what does Obama do on the eve of these present talks with Iran but start issuing what are surely unmeetable demands, all the while we skeddaddle as many of our folks out of Iraq as possible, and a second carrier fleet is quietly moved into the Gulf, along with alot of other naval assets.
Lots of evidence to me that Netanyahu, knowing Obama is at his weakest now before the election, told Obama they were going to attack, period, with Obama accepting it as a fait accompli, knowing that the U.S. is almost certain to get dragged in and thus setting up this round of talks with Teheran to fail as a casus belli for Israel to attack and the U.S. to support it.
Netanyahu goes home and gets ready, and starts to cool the war talk as much as possible to cool the Iranian’s jets as much as possible, and yet on the other hand in the U.S. starts to gin up the P.R. machine to support Israel after the mask is dropped and the bunker-busters are falling.
Hope I’m wrong, but it smells like hell to me. And if it happens Obama will be worse than Bush, amazing enough. At least Bush probably believed in his heart of hearts, genuinely, that Saddam had WMD and the country had to go to war.
Obama knows freaking well Iran has no weapons program; that even if it did it isn’t any serious threat to the U.S.; and that anyway pushing a Nuke-Free Mideast Accord is what is really in America’s best interest by a mile.
Thus, if he doesn’t at least openly oppose any Israeli strike and allows the U.S. to get dragged into same it’ll be utterly without sincerity or genuineness, and totally for Obama’s political benefit.
I almost feel for the guy given the screws that have been applied to him and what I suspect is/was his relatively non-tough nature. (And has anyone seen the close-up pics of him lately? Geez he’s looking haggard almost.)
Won’t help him though if indeed he folds: Taking us to war knowing it’s on utterly false grounds, is bad for us, and is entirely unnecessary …. One can hardly think of a worse civic crime for a Prez. of this country to commit.