"There is no evidence that Iran is making nuclear weapons, head of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei who slammed the United States for making adding “fuel to the fire” with rhetoric, and criticized Israel for bombing Syria without any proof that its target was a nuclear facility.
"I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now," the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told CNN."
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"Etter at en rekke pensjonerte generaler i april 2006 krevde Rumsfelds avgang som forsvarsminister, skrev Rumsfeld et nytt memo etter en konferansetelefonsamale med militære analytikere: «Snakk om Somalia, Filippinene, etc. Få det amerikanske folket til å forstå at de er omgitt i verden av voldelige ekstremister.»
Etter diskusjoner med militære analytikere mente forsvarsministeren at Iran måtte kobles til Irak-krigen.
«Iran er det amerikanske folks bekymring, og om vi feiler i Irak, vil det styrke Iran,» skrev han i april 2006."
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Securing the Northern Border
"Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by:
striking Syria’s drug-money and counterfeiting infrastructure in Lebanon, all of which focuses on Razi Qanan.
paralleling Syria’s behavior by establishing the precedent that Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces.
striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.
Israel can under these conditions better cooperate with the U.S. to counter real threats to the region and the West’s security. Mr. Netanyahu can highlight his desire to cooperate more closely with the United States on anti-missile defense in order to remove the threat of blackmail which even a weak and distant army can pose to either state. Not only would such cooperation on missile defense counter a tangible physical threat to Israel’s survival, but it would broaden Israel’s base of support among many in the United States Congress who may know little about Israel, but care very much about missile defense. Such broad support could be helpful in the effort to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem."
Participants in the Study Group on "A New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000:"
Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute, Study Group Leader
James Colbert, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Johns Hopkins University/SAIS
Douglas Feith, Feith and Zell Associates
Robert Loewenberg, President, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
Jonathan Torop, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
David Wurmser, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies
Meyrav Wurmser, Johns Hopkins University
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