Netanyahu in Moscow: Israel not planning war
Prime Minister responds to Iranian claims that his government is eyeing a 'spring or summer offensive'.
By Haaretz Service and Associated Press Tags: Holocaust Russia Israel newsIsrael is not planning any sort of war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday following talks with Russian leaders in Moscow.
"Israel is not planning any sort of war," he told journalists following a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Netanyahu was apparently responding to claims made earlier in the day by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who reportedly accused Israel of "planning a spring or summer war".
"It was the Iranians who began talks with Syria on this issue and they are using all sorts of manipulations," Netanyahu said.
He added: "It would not surprise me if Iran's behavior is a direct result of the growing international debate on sanctions against Iran at the UN Security Council."
In a recent telephone conversation, Ahmadinejad reportedly told his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad that if Israel goes to war, "we need to put an end to the Zionist regime once and for all".
Earlier on Tuesday, Putin told netanyahu that Russia would build a Holocaust remembrance museum.
In return, Netanyahu said Israel would erect a monument to the Soviet army, to be completed in time for Putin's scheduled trip to Israel next year to mark the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
Russia, which was allied to Germany until the Nazis invaded it in 1941, hopes to erase any doubt about the Soviet Union's role in the allied victory.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu appeared to be making progress toward the main goal of his visit - persuading Russia to back new international sanctions against Iran.
Israeli officials traveling with the prime minister said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had made "harsh statements on the Iranian issue, the likes of which we've never heard from him".
Russia also reportedly agreed to delay the delivery of advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, another key Israeli request.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. |
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Netanyahu: Once a liar, always a liar.
I realize tiny poor little Israel must once again bow to world wide pressure possibly return the Golen Heights will may the world ever get tired of bullying the J*wish people and so Israel around they better hope Israel never gets a miracle to save it from world sanctions and so condemnations especialy me lucky for me they do not take me seriously and so I need a miracle RIGHT ??? Than You... M. S.
Russia over the years have suffered as well and they need help as we of Israel and the world. One of the leading specialist in alzheimers and dementia is in Russia and I was speaking to him of my Aunt Brenda Sue who is young still at 60 starting to suffer. Cruelty and meanest in such a kind woman in the past. We can align with Russia more and help.We need to find a way to help with wheat stocks and plants. Cold climate horses that are old arabic stock as I am breeding Lipizan stallion with arabians to create a stronger long endurance horse I found Russian horse stocks depleting but some of the best in the world. 22 of one breed all that is left. We have the heavy haired cows they need and with trade we dont need to starve the people of Iran for they have suffered greatly. Sanctions already have stolen children and life. Russia has thrush treatments for the women in Iran and Iraq that can save lives. Has the current Pope a lovely man visited Russia? Have the Rabbi been in Russia. Karoon
It seems to me pretty strange that a country that is not planning a war would get very upset about another country getting defensive weapons which could only be used if that country attacks. Try a more plausible line next time.
"...told his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad that if Israel goes to war, 'we need to put an end to the Zionist regime once and for all'. Reported by whom? Are we supposed to believe the Mossad taps their private line? If so, I don't believe it- they are not as good as they want people to think. I love how this stuff just gets made up out of thin air. But we can expect the yahoos to start quoting this fabrication soon...
With daily stories about plans and capabilities to destroy everything from Lebanon to Syria and Iran and whatever is provoking fear in Lebanon, be it overflights or troops massing on the border, its fairly clear that not everybody inside Israel isn't planning a war. If Netanyahu wants to have any credibility in that statement made to the Russians, it might help if there were not a daily, sometime multiple hourly story in nearly every Israeli paper about war. Maybe some guy beat his wife or kids, or drove off a cliff drunk. There must be some domestic news to report. Did somebody hold up a liquor store or is some politician sleeping with somebody he or she oughtn't? Two weeks without a war - be afraid - story might give Netanyahu's claim credibility.
The Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) and Basij can massacre many Iranians with the help of their imported Palestinian terrorist mercenaries but they cannot stop the collapse of the Iranian economy. Workers strike for bread not nukes! The blood of the martyrs will not be forgotten. Free Iran now, the people united will never be defeated!
Of course Israel isn't planning a war. The planning has been done, the decision made, all that remains to choose is the time.
The Red army and the 'Jewish star'... will Netanyahu's intended monument to the Soviet army also display a remembrance of Jewish Bolsheviks (Kagonovich for instance) and all those who perished in the Ukrainian Holocaust?
As if we were inoffensive, that's the big man talking. This is a man whose wish is not honestly to prevent Iran's effort to get its nuke. Otherwise he'd issue threats, not assure anyone tha tthe situtation will still be under control and that nobody really cares.
Mossad had used British passports to murder someone in Dubai?
depends whether he believes a war will increase his standing in the polls to ensure that his name remains on the door of the Prime Minister's Office. Although he did recieve a mandate for war in the last general election with a central pledge to his campaign to declare war on Iran. So Netanyahu not preparing for war means he is lying to the Israeli people.
will be financed with profits from reactor(s) and S-300 SAM(s) sales to Iran.