Not all nations are twiddling their thumbs while Iran inches ever closer to full nuclear capability. While the EU3 condemn Iran’s latest moves to resume nuclear research and the White House vows to keep “talking,” reports from Israel indicate that the Jewish state is seeking more drastic alternatives. While prime Minister Ariel Sharon may be incapacitated, the Israeli government continues to move ahead with plans for a strike on Iran.
The Israelis are well aware that they cannot stop the Iranian program outright. The Iranians learned their lesson from Osirak raid in 1981 and have dispersed research facilities across the country and even under ground. The best the Israelis can hope for is to delay the inevitable and inevitable it most certainly is. The Israeli strike would be filled with danger. The Israelis lack stealth technology and would be forced to rely on long range bombers like the F-15, such planes would be easy targets for Iran’s anti-aircraft batteries. Indeed, Iran recently made a deal with Russia to upgrade its anti-aircraft technology; no doubt, this deal has hastened Israel’s plans to move ahead before such weaponry is in place, as it would make a successful raid much less likely.
The Israelis are in a race against time that has been prompted by the complete and total failure of the EU3 (and to a lesser extent, the Bush Administration), who have done nothing of substance to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The EU3 have offered Iran concessions, which have amounted to nothing more than favorable trade deals, but have taken no real steps to back up their word’s with actions. Sensing the empty threats and fears of meaningless sanctions, the Iranians, in a fashion reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, have not hesitated to continue their nuclear weapons plans. Those plans have been advanced by super-power hopefuls Russia and China who will stop at nothing to undermine the West, even at the expense of long-term global security. The Russians in particular, while condemning Iran’s nuclear actions through diplomatic channels, have been chiefly responsible for the current impasse.
Russia, however, will not have long to wait when the chickens come home to roost. Russia has seen its fair share of Islamic terrorism and we can be certain that once Iran proliferates nuclear technology throughout the radical Islamic world, the weapons used against Russians will bear their mark. It is therefore understandable that Israel’s thoughts have turned to preemption, as they did during the 1967 war. Israel, knows it cannot depend on anyone and since they would be the first target of a nuclear Iran, they rightly figure that they have nothing to loose. Unfortunately, for the rest of us a strike on Iran, be it now or later, will almost certainly lead to a wider war in the Middle East, perhaps the final war of Islamic conquest that radical Islam has been hoping for.
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