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Amid Iran nuke talks, Lapid says Israel has capabilities many 'cannot even imagine'

The Times of Israel
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 22:22 UTC

In TV interview, foreign minister vows Jewish state 'will protect itself against the Iranian threat'; promises anyone who misused NSO Group spyware 'will be brought to justice'.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid talked up Israel's military capabilities amid talks between world powers and Iran on restoring the 2015 accord curbing Tehran's nuclear program. In an interview aired Friday to mark 10 years since he entered politics, Lapid was asked if Israel has the ability to strike uranium enrichment facilities and/or weapons sites in Iran. He told Channel 12 news:

"Israel has capabilities, some of which the world, and even some experts in the field, cannot even imagine. And Israel will protect itself against the Iranian threat,"

He also indicated Israel could attack Iran if necessary without informing the Biden administration, which is looking to rejoin the nuclear deal. Israel vocally opposed the accord, which is formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

"Israel will do whatever it needs to do to protect its security. And we don't need anybody's permission for that. That's been the case since the first day we established this state."

Lapid also commented on the negotiations being held in Vienna to revive the nuclear deal, from which former president Donald Trump withdrew in 2018. Iran has since ramped up its nuclear activities in violation of the pact.

The foreign minister said there had not yet been a "capitulation" to Iran during the talks, and stressed:

"Israel is not against a good deal, it is only against the wrong deal."

He added that Israel has shown information to world powers "that proves the Iranians are lying" about their nuclear activities.

Separately, Lapid was asked about Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, which has faced increasing scrutiny in the wake of allegations that its wares have been used by countries to hack opposition politicians, dissidents, journalists and others. He said:

"The [Israeli] license requirements for NSO and all other such cyberattack firms are simple: You can only use it to prevent terror and to prevent serious crime. If anybody used Pegasus, the core program of NSO, for other purposes, they will be brought to justice, and we won't hide or cover up anybody."

During the interview, Lapid also defended the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid accusations of zigzagging in its response to the emergence of the Omicron variant:

"When I compare us to what is happening in France, Germany, the United States, the developed nations, Israel is handing COVID significantly better than the world average."

Lapid praised Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's role, saying the premier was managing the pandemic

"wisely and carefully. Sometimes you have to respond quickly to changing conditions. We've not had a single lockdown, we've kept the economy open."

He was referring to the coalition government that took office in June. Israel's top diplomat also noted there are currently fewer than 100 serious cases.

Lapid was also asked if he believed Bennett would hand over the premiership to him in September 2023, as the two agreed as part of their power-sharing agreement.

"Yes... I have faith in Naftali, yes," he said.

Reader Comments

ROEL · 2022-01-02T22:29:38Z

It seems those capabilities are just decoration when it comes to the way they confront Iran and Syria.

BEVAN BEVAN · 2022-01-03T01:10:55Z

" Lapid says Israel has capabilities many 'cannot even imagine'", When one considers the diabolically horrendous depth's of depraved cruelties which they hourly impose upon the innocent Palestinians', then, it's easy to accept the truth of this statement. "They" are instructed "To rise and kill first", and this, the most obvious instruction, evidenced in everything they put their sordid exercised minds to, namely, "By deception thou shall succeed". This is not antisemitism, but observations of statement and fact. It totally explains why our World of sanity and justice is able to be stood on it's head.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-01-03T01:19:42Z

BEVAN BEVAN - Lets Boycott effing Israel.

Shall we?

I got a starting list for this purpose, but I'm happy to refine it.

Get in touch with me if you want the list but is is already out there.

Easy peasy it will be to put Israel in its place.

Zionist first in that regard.

Serious, serious,

effing fucking

business

is what

I am

talking about.

Serious.

BK

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-01-03T01:27:58Z

I call bluff on this talk....bluff and bluster is all Israel has to offer.

Can somebody, somewhere tell me something Israel has done lately that has been beneficial to anybody besides Israel?

Is Israel a "spent" country whose ideas are just 20th century lingering? The answer to that is a resounding YES!

It is obvious and it has been for a long time, so what is the hold up......oh....I guess they got their talons on some fiat currency and such....well good faith is diminishing rapidly and Israel should accept most of the blame for that. It is Israel's fault and recompense is demanded with payment in blood rather than fiat because BLOOD is real!

Shove that up your Zionist hateful effing 20th century and before ideology whose time of DEATH is now. Good-bye and may you do better next time.

BK

Patrick Donnelly · 2022-01-03T01:32:35Z

Beirut detonation of a neutron bomb.

But how many do they have?

Has Iran etc also got them?

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-01-03T01:37:05Z

Patrick Donnelly - the question really worth asking is do you have the capacity to deliver the payload efficiently without interruption? Seems to me the one to ask that question to is Russia and maybe China. That is an important question to ask and then after that perhaps some resolution can be achieved for the better of those who recognize that if we don't talk across the table we will all basically be dead no thanks to effing Israel.

BK

Artex · 2022-01-03T16:49:32Z

Patrick Donnelly Who needs a neutron bomb? The MOAB the US detonated in Afghanistan a few years back shows you can do plenty of damage with conventional, non-nuclear explosives. Hell, have you seen what you can do with just det. cord?

What happened in Beirut is in line with what you can do with the materials that were claimed to be the cause. The more I looked at the explosion and then at slo-mo video of conventional explosives, the more the story lined up. However, that does not mean that it was actually an accident. I still think it was a planned operation using conveniently parked materials.

Patrick Donnelly · 2022-01-10T11:39:12Z

Artex You miss the point! MOAB cannot sit atop a missile.... it requires the heaviest of bombers.

Winston Smith · 2022-01-03T01:35:34Z

Lotsa hot air blowing' from Tel-Aviv. Nothing new........

-yawn-

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-01-03T01:41:31Z

Winston Smith - I never yawn in front of an Israeli prisoner because it so happens I went to the Israeli school of torture and learned that when you yawn sometimes your eyes close and then you are vulnerable. Usually what I do when I have an Israeli prisoner is I do what they taught so well in that school they sponsored. I tils rieht taorht before yeht hsal tuo ta em. Kill or be killed they taught, but I know they were wrong. Still, you get what you give.

alexal60 · 2022-01-03T15:11:14Z

Years, and Years, years............................., always the SAME " NEWS ".................,

When those " elected people " will be Humans???????????????????????

We are tired to hear, since 1947, the same PAMPHLET of the WORST Greek Tragicomedy...........

To resolve this PROBLEM, I will invite 2 duellers from each side to the COLOSSEUM in Rome..........:

who win, WIN

alexal60 · 2022-01-03T15:23:32Z

After the dramatic events in Italy and Rome, Vespasian returned from Egypt, would like to immediately begin to govern even before the investiture. Rome would need it, after such an anarchic period; she would need energetic, authoritative, wise and intelligent guidance. This in Rome but, for some time, with the central power absent or almost absent, in the populations of the provinces, especially in Gaul, various revolts broke out at the same time that were barely tamed by the small Roman garrisons permanently stationed in the various conquered territories. But in one of these in Rhenish Germany, we find a Romanized Batavian prince, GIULIO CIVILE, who also takes advantage of the absence of the Roman armies engaged in Italy, and starts a secessionist movement, placing himself at the head of the Batavians, who among the other are inflamed by their prophetess, VELLEDA. However, they have a short life, they have no luck, the revolt by Petilio Ceriale is hardly quelled. But it is not the only one. Tribes from another area of Gaul itself follow the example; we find three leaders who also want to give life to a secessionist movement, to create for themselves if not an empire (Imperrium Galliarum) at least an independent state from the Romans. They are the leaders Giulio Classico, Giulio Tutore, Giulio Sabino, and Giulio Valentino. They also fail in Trier; Petilio Ceriale and Annio Gallo want to bring them back to reason, they can't, they defeat them on the field, and they are immediately eliminated. But the most dramatic revolt - not without consequences that will last 2000 years - takes place in Palestine, in Jerusalem. Here we left last year Vespasian who had besieged the city for a whole year after the Jewish riots and rebellions that had broken out since 68. For the events of Rome, followed by his appointment as emperor, at the beginning of this year 70, in FEBRUARY, Vespasian had left Palestine, and had left for the capital to receive both the consulate and the emperor's crown. On the spot to continue the siege of the city until the complete conquest, he left his son TITO with the order to quell the revolts, and with a recommendation: once the city fell, he had to completely destroy it. Above all, raze the Temple to the ground; once and for all he had to eliminate and expel all Jews from Palestine, none excluded. TITO, loyal to orders, carries out his task with great zeal, scrupulously and initiates one of the most disputed territorial disputes of a people that will last until the Treaty of 1947, when the STATE OF ISRAEL will be created; but as we know in certain areas this dispute continues today. But this was not just a dispute in 1970, it was a massacre, one of the greatest crimes of humanity. An unprecedented ferocity raged against this people who did not want interference from other peoples and sovereigns, already had its millenary Law and only intended to observe that. The Jews, already repeatedly defeated outside the city by Vespasian, took advantage of the short interval caused by the chaos in Rome that kept the new emperor busy, to reorganize, to strengthen the defense and also to spread the war over the rest of their territory. But they were not organized in a way that was sufficient to oppose the Romans. In the spring, in APRIL, disagreements broke out among the same Jewish leaders with reciprocal eliminations of leaders who had a different view of the situation. There were those who wanted compromises and peace who instead wanted to fight to the bitter end. Either win or all die. Jerusalem was surrounded by three powerful circles of walls. In MAY the third wall fell into the hands of the Romans, five days later also the second, only the first wall remained to enter the city, where all the Jews had gathered in the great temple, determined to defend it or die there. On August 9, the Romans also broke down the last wall, entered the city and set fire to the temple, then the massacre began. Some wanted to surrender, but Titus ignored the pain of exile that his father Vespasian had suggested, he wanted them all dead. (Simone Giora the best leader of the Jews who had organized the resistance, was then taken to Rome and killed at the foot of the Capitol during the triumph of Tito, where he showed off the booty, which for him were common objects, but for the Jews they were the precious symbols of their religion: the Table of Azimi and the seven-branched candelabrum.

alexal60 · 2022-01-03T15:35:27Z

Some, during the massacre, took refuge and resisted in Masada until April 73, then they were overwhelmed, and seeing any resistance was useless, they all committed suicide. Those who escaped fled abroad.............................., the actuals, that think ONLY to DESTROY the Earth Planet, after 3000 years of persecutions from any kind of EMPIRES...........

Something is COMMON in the History, past, recent and Future?

codis · 2022-01-03T16:46:00Z

Israel has capabilities, some of which the world, and even some experts in the field, cannot even imagine.

Somehow I suspect he speaks of the mind of a psychopath.

Patrick Donnelly · 2022-01-10T11:41:00Z

Judah, the tribe of the House of David, lived in Judea, not Israel. The capital was Jerusalem. The other tribes did not consort much with them ....

At the end of the day - may the best ideas prevail. The chips are on the table. Place your bets!

Buffalo_Ken

Excellent SOTT comment.

Dwoods44

Quote: "You gotta include the media, think tanks, and academia in this — in addition to the military-industrial complex and the political class....

Dwoods44

Cynthia Chung is one of the best journalist/historians at revealing the dark underbelly of USA created wars to subjugate countries, murder the...

Dwoods44

Just watched the video - seems somebody is trying to send a message.

Buffalo_Ken

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