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Iran plans new nuclear reactor
Israel warns on Iran nuclear power
El Baradei: Iran only months away from a bomb

EDITORIAL: Iran, Israel and nukes

Binyamin Netanyahu: Commenting on his own bid for the Israeli premiership, Netanyahu said that he would consider launching a pre-emptive attack to stop Iran's nuclear program. "I will continue the legacy of Menachem Begin, who through a bold and courageous move did not allow a neighbor of Iran, Iraq, to develop such a threat. I believe that this is what Israel should do," he said.

OF INTEREST:

June 7th, 1981 Menachem Begin ordered the bombing of the Iraq Reactor.

Now there is speculation of a parallel event with Iran before Mar 28th, 2006 the day of General Elections in Israel. It is the same for Ariel Sharon as it was for Menachem Begin in June 1981. The general election was held on Tuesday, June 30th, 1981. March 28th is a Tuesday as well.

The bombing occurred 3 plus weeks in advance. Thus we might expect something similar in early March of 2006.

See this URL for complete article http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1116 Debkafile :

The statement made a ringing slogan for Sharon’s new Kadima party’s campaign for the March 2006 general election. Otherwise it was meaningless.

A more serious statement came from AMAN commander Brig. Aharon Zeevi Wednesday Nov. 30 in his briefing to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee. He warned that if international pressure on Iran fails to bring forth results by March 2006, the world powers might as well give up, because by then it will be too late: Iran will have attained the capability to manufacture a nuclear bomb. The general was saying in so many words that, according to his information, Iran is no more than four months away from a nuclear weapons option.

Some of the editors present at the lunch interpreted Sharon’s words as meaning he was planning a “Begin-style coup” - an assault on Iran’s nuclear installations ahead of Israel’s March 28 general election, like the late Israeli prime minister Menahem Begin’s order to the Israeli air force to demolish Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor shortly before the June 1981 vote. But it is worth recalling that Begin, unlike Sharon, was prepared to stand up to Washington when Israel’s security was in question, whereas the incumbent’s rhetoric sounds combative but usually conceals a more accommodating posture.