Mofaz: Strike on Iran could be catastrophic for Israel
Mofaz: Strike on Iran could be c… JPost – Iranian Threat – News.
(So sickening. I can’t help hoping against hope that this also is disinformation. – JW )
Photo: Reuters / Pool Opposition leader Shaul Mofaz warned Saturday that a preemptive unilateral Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could have “catastrophic” consequences for Israel.
Speaking in a interview with Channel 2, Mofaz said that such an attack would not greatly hinder Iran’s ability to create a nuclear weapon and it was very likely that such an attack would lead to war.
Mofaz stated that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s posing a nuclear Iran as an “existential threat” to Israel alone was “manipulative.” The Kadima leader stated that the world had to be enlisted to continue to place sanctions on Iran.
The former defense minister said that a decision to strike Iran must only be made after both the professional echelon and the cabinet were consulted. He suggest that if Netanyahu’s plan to split Kadima had succeeded and former Kadima minister Tazhi Hanegbi would have been awarded a high position in the government, Netanyahu and Barak would have had more backing to strike Iran unilaterally.
Mofaz slammed Netanyahu, blaming him for attempting to break up Kadima through “political bribery.”
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WarSclerotic 
July 28, 2012 at 8:08 PM
This is no disinfo. This is israeli politics at its worse.
July 29, 2012 at 3:40 AM
Mofaz is one of the many wise men who think through the consequences of their actions, instead of dragging the region into a war for political gains. There is no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program, so leave the warmongering until that evidence is there. The US will not attack Iran without a UNSC resolution, and the UNSC will not approve a resolution without any evidence.
“Israel employs highly sophisticated, professional spy services that rival American agencies in technical capability and recruiting human sources.”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_US_ISRAEL_SPYING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-28-09-25-08
However, from the same article:
“U.S. national security officials consider Israel to be, at times, a frustrating ally and a genuine counterintelligence threat.”