Israel's Nuclear Submarine Fleet from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
"We are not allowed to talk about our operations, because this is the secret to our success. If I tell you what we are planning to do in the next war, The Enemy would be waiting for us, and we don't want to give him a competitative edge - I'll be the one waiting for him!" - Israeli Seaman
Israel operates three Dolphin-class submarines on constant patrol - each Dolphin is capable of carrying, as well as torpedoes, a payload of four intermediate range ballistic missiles with a range of up to 1500 miles, currently understood to be targeted on strategic sites within Iran.
They are also capable of carrying and firing the custom modified Popeye-class anti-ship missiles alleged to have been fired (by Wayne Madsen of the Madsen Report) in the False Flag attack on the USS Cole in Aden on the Third Day of the Second Intifada in October 2000, shortly before the US Presidential Election.
The Clinon Administration were never able to clarify who the culprits were - the incoming Bush Administration belatedly determined that "al-Qaeda did it" but failed to follow up on this, and Lead Investigator and FBI Special Agent in Charge John O'Neill was declared dead as a victim of the World Trade Centre Attacks on 9/11 - however, his deputy, Ali Souffan reports several alarming and strange occurrences for the FBI in Yemen, including a missile lock on the FBI's helicopter by the Yemeni Air Defence Network and several other possible or probable assassination attempts prior to O'Neill's recall due to lobbying by US Ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine (one of Madeline Albright's favourites - Albright has been similarly less than helpful to Bill Clinton and US interests over Iraq, the Kosovo War, the African Embassy Bombings and the Israeli Palestinian Peace Process over the previous 4 years...)
"Netanyahu stuck to his old script at the White House. "Iran's conciliatory words have to be matched by real actions – transparent, verifiable, meaningful actions. Iran is committed to Israel's destruction," he said. He reiterated his previous demands: "Iran must fully dismantle its military nuclear programme. If Iran continues to advance its military programme during negotiations, the sanctions should be strengthened." Corona KH-4 photograph of Israel’s nuclear research center at Dimona
(Kirya Le’Mechkar Gariini) (KAMAG),
Israel is NOT a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), does not acknowledge or comment upon the existence or non-existence of its military nuclear programme or nuclear status and has refused every request for an international inspection of its nuclear facilities since 1962 (when they lied to President Kennedy's inspectors, bricked up walls and lift shafts to the lower 5 sub-levels of the facility and hid what they really had.)
Iran HAS signed the NPT, allows inspections by the IAEA and is in full compliance with the Treaty.
But occasionally says "ridiculous things" about Israel.
Madeleine Albright on the Iranian Nuclear Program from
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"They say the most ridiculous things about Israel"
Israel is in an enormous number of respects, a ridiculous country, that does absurd things.
But he appeared to realise that Obama's revived emphasis on diplomatic solutions both in Iran and in Palestine – framed within Iran's apparently more moderate posture – had left him with little alternative, for now at least, but to go along with the US administration and to wait, perhaps, for the inevitable collapse that sooner or later usually attends such well-intentioned initiatives.
While it was an achievement of sorts that a repeat of their 2011 Oval Office row, and any hint of open disagreement, were avoided, it was not a good day for Netanyahu. While reassuring his visitor that he would insist on substantive concessions before relaxing the pressure on Tehran, Obama avoided any mention of a timetable or "red lines", or of any specific steps that Iran must take.
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Netanyahu's energetic attempts over the past three years to convince the great powers that Iran is the world's number one security threat, akin to but more dangerous than North Korea, thus seems to have run into the sand. Nor do previous veiled threats of Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear sites now appear to have any substance, as US opposition to any such action has stiffened with Obama's re-election and the technical and practical difficulties for Israel of mounting unilateral strikes have become clearer.
Most Israelis – 78%, according to a recent poll – appear to share their prime minister's scepticism about Iran's change of heart, as do numerous American and Israeli commentators. Yet, ironically, the hawkish Netanyahu, a favourite target for American and European liberals, now finds himself under attack from Israel's political right for allegedly failing to stand up to Obama. Current and former members from far right and nationalist side of the Knesset have been voluble in their concern about Netanyahu's handling of both the Iranian and Palestinian issues. As the Jerusalem Post reported:
"Likud MK Moshe Feiglin said Netanyahu's conception that the world will take action to prevent a nuclear Iran has collapsed. He said it was now clear to all that Iran will proceed toward a military nuclear capability and the US will not take action to stop it … What Netanyahu needs to ask himself is not what Obama will do, but whether under his own watch, an extremist Muslim country that wants to destroy Israel like Iran will join the nuclear club … That's what history will judge him on. It is wrong to shift our security to the US. It shows we haven't learned anything."
The former Knesset member Aryeh Eldad said Netanyahu and Obama were both "good actors," but the reality facing Israel was starkly clear.
"Bibi [Netanyahu] gave up the Israel option for military action on Iran, and he is now relying on the US, which says we need to give up on the Palestinian issue in return," Eldad said. "He understands the fight is lost. He sacrificed the land of Israel."
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