© Ronen Zvulun/ReutersUS President Donald Trump โข Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The report states that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been contemplating the idea of striking Iranian nuclear objects when Barack Obama was in office,
but had failed to gather support needed from the security cabinet at home to give it a go. Israeli officials have been considering an option to deliver a unilateral airstrike against Iran, specifically its nuclear facilities, even if they won't be supported by the US administration, The New York Times stated in its recent report on
Tel Aviv's alleged efforts to push the US into the offensive against its Middle East rival. The media hasn't indicated the source of this information, despite bringing up a number of American, Israeli and European former and current officials throughout the report.
Sputnik was unable to independently verify the report by the New York Times.The
NYT report says that such a strike was on the table of the Israeli Cabinet back during Barack Obama's administration,
which actively monitored Tel Aviv's preparations for it. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the plans, saying that he would approve such a strike "unequivocally",
but failed to gather the support of a majority of his security cabinet at the time.
The newspaper's report further indicated that the strike didn't get support from the US, as the
Obama administration feared the possible consequences not just for Israel, but for its own forces in the region as well. The report also said that
such an airstrike is more likely to gain support from Trump's administration, if it's approved and conducted, but that doesn't mean Washington would participate in it.
"I think that it's far more likely that Trump would give Netanyahu a green light to strike Iran than that Trump would strike himself. But that, you know, is a big risk", the Obama administration's ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said.
The Israeli Air Force has conducted a number of sorties in August reportedly targeting alleged Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria,
but only officially acknowledging a few of them. However, Netanyahu hinted that the area of IAF operations may extend further than the immediate vicinity of Israel's borders, if national security requires it.
During the period of Obama's administration, the US and Israel couldn't find common ground on Iran, with
Washington willing to resolve concerns in regards to its nuclear programme with diplomacy and Tel Aviv opposing it. Israel condemned the signing of the Iran nuclear deal and the US ultimately withdrew from it under President Trump in May 2018, re-imposing sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Zealand Maoris, the South African Bantu and others are the proofs of that. For that matter, the Israelites
could not have been "taken away captive", had they been physically exterminated. Their blood and thought
survive in mankind, somewhere, today.
Israel remained separate from Judah of its own will, and for the very reasons which ever since have
aroused the mistrust and misgiving of other peoples. The Israelites "were not Jews"; the Judahites were "in all
likelihood non-Israelitish".
The true meaning of the assertion that Israel "disappeared" is to be found in the later Talmud, which
says: "The ten tribes have no share in the world to come". Thus, "the children of Israel" are banned from
heaven by the ruling sect of Judah because they refused to exclude themselves from mankind on earth.
The Chief Rabbi of the British Empire in 1918, the Very Rev. J.H. Hertz, in answer to an enquiry on
this point said explicitly, "The people known at present as Jews are descendants of the tribes of Judah and
Benjamin with a certain number of descendants of the tribe of Levi". This statement makes perfectly clear that
"Israel" had no part in what has become Judaism (no authority, Judaist or other, would support the claim
made to blood-descent from Judah, for the Jews of today, but this is of little account).
Therefore the use of the name "Israel" by the Zionist state which was created in Palestine in this
century is in the nature of a forgery. Some strong reason must have dictated the use of the name of a people
who were not Jews and would have none of the creed which has become Judaism. One tenable theory
suggests itself. The Zionist state was set up with the connivance of the great nations of the West, which is
also the area of Christendom. The calculation may have been that these peoples would be comforted in their
consciences if they could be led to believe that they were fulfilling Biblical prophecy and God's promise to
"Israel", at whatever cost in the "destruction" of innocent peoples."
Controversy Of Zion by Douglas Reed