Sanctions Against Iran A Paper Tiger

The time is drawing near when Israel will have to go it alone and demolish the Iranian nuclear threat. Years of protracted negotiations between Iran and the international atomic energy agency have lead nowhere except to allow the Iranian dictatorship to flaunt the international community's demands that the country live up to its commitments on not developing nuclear capabilities.

Today, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on an official visit to Iraq, predicted the international community will impose stronger economic sanctions on Iran unless its leaders change their policies.

That threat rings hollow. We have heard this rhetoric repeatedly over the last decade coming out of Washington and nothing has changed except that Iran continues to build centrifuges that produce the fissionable material, that will allow Iran to build and ultimately use nuclear weapons.

Also today, Iran, the nation that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map, today signed a defense cooperation pact with Syria pledging to work in coordination to counter the regional threat they see posed by the "Zionist regime."

In the meantime, Israel has been preparing for a new front against the terrorist sponsoring regimes, holding two extensive military drills, simulating various combat scenarios against Syria and Lebanese based Hezbollah, the terrorist puppet of the Iranian regime in Tehran.

Israel will most likely be forced to take action against Iran's nuclear ambitions before atomic weapons are actually built and deployed and the entire geopolitical dynamic changes, not just in the Middle East but globally. A nuclear tipped Iran, controlled by zealot Islamic extremists, is a prescription for world disaster.

Israel has been forced to act on its own in the past taking out the Iraqi al-Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center near Baghdad. In 1981 the Israeli Air Force (IAF) crippled the Iraqi reactor in a surprise attack code-named Operation Opera.

And just a little over two years ago, in September 2007, the IAF struck Syria's al-Kibar nuclear facility surprising the world when it destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fueled by North Korean plutonium.

The world is feigning fortitude in dealing with diabolical regimes in the Middle East, who rather than focusing on how to resolve the internal problems that they face such as tyranny, corruption, poverty, unemployment and illiteracy, lash out at Israel for being a poisoned dagger aimed at the heart of the Muslim world.

If Iran is to be stopped, far more stringent sanctions must be imposed, and the Iranian government must believe it faces the threat of military action if they do not halt their nuclear program. Today, neither
one of those conditions exists.

As a result, Israel cannot wait much longer to attack and one would hope that the United States will provide an umbrella of security if Israel has to go it alone again against a country that is massively larger in terms of population and land mass, a country with a powerful military with long range missiles capable if hitting Israeli cities.

The nation of Israel was born and is alive today because of the Holocaust in Europe. The people in that tiny nation know what extermination means. They know that as Hitler threatened there would be a Europe free of Jews and executed on that threat, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs who pull his strings are proposing a Middle East free of Jews and they too will act on the threat.

That can and will not happen because the Israeli Defense Forces will act when the time is right to preempt a future nuclear attack that would strike at its very existence.
One only hopes that world community backs her actions as she faces this existential threat alone.