ISRAEL AND IRAN ON COLLISION COURSE

Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for launching an all out attack on Iran drew sharp criticism from a section of Israelis including political parties like Kadima Party, the party formed by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel President Shimon Peres and  former Justice of Supreme Court of Israel Eliahou Winograd as they apprehend serious repercussions from the part of Iran and its accomplices Hezbollah of Lebanon and forces loyal to Hamas in Gaza and Sinai, all bitter enemies of Israel.

The hawkish Prime Minister according to Shaul Faus, leader of Kadima Party came down heavily on Netanyahu’s plan of striking at the nuclear facilities of Iran at an untimely moment as he is quite certain that Iran will not hesitate to launch missile attacks aiming strategic positions in  Israel, along with its accomplice, Lebanese Hezbollah which is also well-equipped with missiles and other logistical facilities waiting in the wings to get an opportunity to take on Israel as ad when Iran is subjected to an attack by Israel. That much intense is the rivalry between Israel and Hezbollah since a long time.

Shaul Faus launched a scathing criticism on Benjamin Netanyahu squarely blaming him against his efforts to unilaterally taking on Iran. In an interview with Army Radio of Israel in which both took part saw Netanyahu sitting ‘confused, stressed, and unfocussed’. While Netanyahu-Yehud Barak combine strongly advocate a tougher stance against Iran, Israeli President Shimon Perez warns against a knee-jerk action on the part of the two warmongers, Netanyahu and Yehud Barak.

The Justice Eliahou Winograd while launching poignant criticism against the reported combative approach of Benjamin Netanyahu govt branded the govt as a ‘bankrupt’ leadership in an interview he gave to Army Radio of Israel. He voiced suspicions and apprehensions about the defence-preparedness of Israeli govt. Without weighing the pros and cons about the capability of Israel to take on Iran and its accomplices like Hezbollah of Lebanon and Hamas single-handedly by Israel points out that sometimes it will negate whatever Israel could achieve during the past years. He had headed a 2008 Commission which delved deep into the reasons for Israel suffering heavily at the hands of Hezbollah in a war that broke out between the both in the year 2006, which submitted a report to the govt in which the Justice had blamed ‘logistical and tactical lacunae’ on the part of his country, Israel.

US, Israel’s benefactor at a critical moment like this, please note, Presidential elections are round the corner in US and both political parties – Democratic and Republican Party leaders Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are engaged in whirlwind campaign tours across the country to canvass votes in elections scheduled to be held in the month of November, is reluctant to join Israel’s war plans as of now. 

US’s Joint Chief of Staff, Martin Dempsey on visit to England reportedly told media persons US’s inability to enter into an alliance with Israel to take on Iran at this crucial moment.

Launching an attack on Iran, according to Israeli President Shimon Perez pointed out that at the most it might help delay the nuclear programme of the former, nothing more than that.

The lack of unanimity of purpose has driven a clear wedge between two sides, that of Benjamin Netanyahu and another side led by Kadima Party and Israeli patriots like Justice Eliahou Winograd.