De Israelische Terreur 157

Israel dreigt opnieuw openlijk met een een schending van het internationaal recht. En Europa staat erbij en kijkt ernaar. Dit zijn westerse normen en waarden en ons democratisch gehalte in de praktijk. Als Iran Israel zo zou hebben bedreigd, waren er onmiddellijk Kamervragen gesteld. Nu zwijgt zowel links als rechts. Totdat wij zelf de repercussies zullen ondervinden. En die gaan onherroepelijk ooit eens komen. Blijf zwijgen vrienden.

Haaretz bericht:

'Report: Israel in talks with U.S. on 'air corridor' over Iraq to Iran

Israel is negotiating with the United States over permission for an "air corridor" over Iraq should an attack on that country's nuclear facilities become necessary, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.Military authorities would need permission from the U.S. Department of Defense for any such operation, the report said.A senior Israeli defense official said talks are currently underway between Israel and the U.S. over the possibility that Jerusalem decides to take unilateral action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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"We are planning for every eventuality, and sorting out issues such as these are crucially important," said the official, speaking under condition of anonymity."The only way to do this is to fly through U.S.-controlled air space. If we don't sort these issues out now we could have a situation where American and Israeli war planes start shooting at each other," he said.Contingency planning has accelerated significantly, the newspaper said, since the beginning of the year in light of Mossad estimates that Iran could have the necessary amount of fissile material to produce a nuclear weapon by 2009.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week announced that Meir Dagan, head of Mossad and a leading expert on Iran, would postpone his retirement until the end of 2007 at the earliest.Olmert also handed over coordination of military aspects of the Iran nuclear issue to Israel Air Force Commander Eliezer Shkedy.The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany will meet Monday in London for an emergency session on the matter. Officials will discuss arms control and a possible cutback in the $25 billion in export credits which European countries use to trade with Iran.Iran ignored a UN deadline set for last Wednesday to stop its uranium enrichment. This would not mark the first time IAF planes passed through Iraqi airspace. On June 17, 1981 an IAF air strike demolished the Osirak nuclear reactor being constructed under Saddam Hussein's regime. Cheney: U.S. and allies must not Iran to achieve nuclear capabilityAlso Saturday, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said that the United States and its allies must not allow Iran to become a nuclear power and raised concerns about Tehran's actions and "inflammatory" rhetoric.The stern comments from Cheney, who is known for his hawkish views, followed Tehran's refusal to heed the UN deadline to halt enrichment, and a vow by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stand up to the rest of the world and not show weakness by acceding to the West's demands."They have made some fairly inflammatory statements," Cheney said of Iran at a joint Sydney news conference with Australian Prime Minister John Howard. "They appear to be pursuing the development of nuclear weapons.""We are deeply concerned and have made it very clear we're deeply concerned about Iran's activities," he said.Cheney said he was concerned about Iran's "fairly aggressive" role in the Middle East, not just its decision to ignore the UN deadline.He said "all options are on the table" on Iran. The Bush administration has long maintained that it is focused on diplomacy but tacitly acknowledges that the military option has not been ruled out.Still, the administration's tough comments on Iran have been met with concern by some in the U.S. Congress and have even rattled financial markets.Cheney said that a peaceful resolution to the nuclear standoff with Iran was "still our preference".The Weekend Australian newspaper reported on Saturday that Cheney had endorsed U.S. Republican Senator John McCain's view that the only thing worse than a military confrontation with Iran would be a nuclear-armed Iran.'

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Ik heb net deze email gestuurd aan alle Kamerfracties:

'Geacht Kamerlid,

http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/2007/02/de-israelische-terreur-157.html

Zoals u hierboven kunt lezen bedreigt israel momenteel Iran met bombardementen. deze bedreiging is in strijd met het internationaal recht. is uw fractie van plan de Nederlandse regering te verzoeken stappen tegen israel te ondernemen?
In afwachting van uw antwoord
Met vriendelijke groet
Stan van Houcke
Journalist
Amsterdam'

U kunt dat ook doen. Britse en Amerikaanse burgers doen dit met een zekere regelmaat. Direct vragen stellen aan hun volksvertegenwoordigers. Het zou goed zijn als dit ook in Nederland een democratisch gebruik wordt. Stel uw vragen aan uw parlementsleden! U zit er niet voor spek en bonen bij. Het is uw parlementaire democratie. U betaalt ervoor. U hebt het recht gehoord te worden. Waarom blijft u dan zwijgend langs de kant staan?

'Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike

By Con Coughlin in Tel Aviv0

2/24/07

"The Telegraph" -- -- Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq. But to do so the Israeli military authorities in Tel Aviv need permission from the Pentagon.A senior Israeli defence official said negotiations were now underway between the two countries for the US-led coalition in Iraq to provide an "air corridor" in the event of the Israeli government deciding on unilateral military action to prevent Teheran developing nuclear weapons."We are planning for every eventuality, and sorting out issues such as these are crucially important," said the official, who asked not to be named."The only way to do this is to fly through US-controlled air space. If we don't sort these issues out now we could have a situation where American and Israeli war planes start shooting at each other."As Iran continues to defy UN demands to stop producing material which could be used to build a nuclear bomb, Israel's military establishment is moving on to a war footing, with preparations now well under way for the Jewish state to launch air strikes against Teheran if diplomatic efforts fail to resolve the crisis.The pace of military planning in Israel has accelerated markedly since the start of this year after Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, provided a stark intelligence assessment that Iran, given the current rate of progress being made on its uranium enrichment programme, could have enough fissile material for a nuclear warhead by 2009.Last week Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, announced that he had persuaded Meir Dagan, the head of Mossad for the past six years and one of Israel's leading experts on Iran's nuclear programme, to defer his retirement until at least the end of next year.'

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