Sunday, February 05, 2012

Report: Dempsey told Israel US won't join 'unauthorized' attack

JewPI

United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey told Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak this week that the United States will not join in an 'unauthorized' Israeli attack on Iran, according to a report in the Left-leaning Inter Press Service.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.

Dempsey's warning, conveyed to both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, represents the strongest move yet by President Barack Obama to deter an Israeli attack and ensure that the United States is not caught up in a regional conflagration with Iran. But the Israeli government remains defiant about maintaining its freedom of action to make war on Iran, and it is counting on the influence of right-wing extremist views in U.S. politics to bring pressure to bear on Obama to fall into line with a possible Israeli attack during the election campaign this fall.

There have been no reports in either Israeli or US media regarding what was said in Dempsey's meetings here. Frankly, I have doubts as to how much credence to give this report. DEBKA is telling a very different story.

Comment: I post this to demonstrate the politics involved in standing up to Iran. This is not a vetted story, we do not know the veracity of said report-I could not confirm with three independent sources. Note how the set up is for plausible denialbility. So goes the emerging danger in the Middle East. The public silence of the current administration is deafening.

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