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US Offers Old Umbrella to Israel But Little Else…….

Rumour has it that the incoming Obama administration is going to offer Israel a nuclear umbrella to offset the threat Iran poses to the Jewish state. But as far as the Tundra Tabloids is concerned, the only state that can look out for Jewish state’s best interests, is Israel itself.

Haaretz: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s administration will offer Israel a “nuclear umbrella” against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said the U.S. will declare that an attack on Israel by Tehran would result in a devastating U.S. nuclear response against Iran. But America’s nuclear guarantee to Israel could also be interpreted as a sign the U.S. believes Iran will eventually acquire nuclear arms. […]

Granting Israel a nuclear guarantee essentially suggests the U.S. is willing to come to terms with a nuclear Iran. For its part, Israel opposes any such development and similar opposition was voiced by officials in the outgoing Bush administration. “What is the significance of such guarantee when it comes from those who hesitated to deal with a non-nuclear Iran?” asked a senior Israeli security source. “What kind of credibility would this [guarantee have] when Iran is nuclear-capable?” The same source noted that the fact that there is talk about the possibility of a nuclear Iran undermines efforts to prevent Tehran from acquiring such arms.

A senior Bush administration source said that the proposal for an American nuclear umbrella for Israel was ridiculous and lacked credibility. “Who will convince the citizen in Kansas that the U.S. needs to get mixed up in a nuclear war because Haifa was bombed? And what is the point of an American response, after Israel’s cities are destroyed in an Iranian nuclear strike?”

But that’s not all. In what only can be described as “delivering an offer that can’t be refused”, former advisor, and confidante to president-elect Barack Obama, Zbigniew Brzezinski, told Haaretz:

“One [piece of] advice that I would give the Israeli government is not to engage in this campaign for an American attack on Iran, because I don’t think America is going to attack Iran, and if it did, and the consequences would be disastrous.” “It wouldn’t be particularly good for American-Israeli relations, and there will be a lot of resentment against [Israel],” he said. “There already has been some after the war in Iraq.”

So either way, the incoming US administration is going to be putting the squeeze on the Jewish state, so it looks like the Israelis are really going to have to do it alone, and take out those nukes before the Iranians have past the point of no return. The US is surely not giving Israel very much wiggle room here, either do nothing and stand by and watch us do nothing, or join with us in standing to watch each other doing nothing, but most importantly, don’t do anything. Tick tick tick tick. KGS

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