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 [Informed Comment] US Deters Israel from Attacking Iran; Russian Cooperation seen Key ...: 'Russia, however, is considered key to efforts to isolate Iran, and Israeli officials have therefore urged their American counterparts in recent months to tone down Washington's other disputes with Moscow to focus all its efforts on obtaining Russia's backing against Iran. For instance, they suggested that Washington offer to drop its plan to station a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic - a proposal Russia views as a threat, though Washington insists the system is aimed solely at Iran - in exchange for Russia agreeing to stiffer sanctions against Iran.

[Maverick News Media MNM] US's wrong moves on Israel, Iran, Russia and Georgia: The US should be standingup much more strongly for Georgia, helping Israel to position itself todo something about Iran before it is too late - and preparing to dealwith Iran itself. Instead, the US is allowing Russia to run roughshodover Georgia, preventing Israel from positioning itself to strike Iranand continuing the same weak policies on Iran that have put us where weare today.

[Stop Bush Postcards] PROPHECY WORLD WAR 3 GOG MAGOG, RUSSIA, ISRAEL, IRAN AMERICA: Inside South Ossetia, civilians have been without water, electricity and basic services for more than a day, said Maia Kardava, a Red Cross spokeswoman in Tbilisi. She said the Red Cross was unable to reach colleagues based in Tskhinvali because their phones had lost power and they were huddled in bomb shelters.

 [Jesus Lives!] Russia to supply new Iran air defenses: “But there’s an answer for every counter-measure, and as far as we’re concerned, the sooner the Iranians get the new system, the more time we will have to inspect the deployments and tactical doctrines. There’s a learning curve.”

 [The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics] Israel/Palestine: Olmert Tells Abbas No Refugee Return; Russia ...: The Cheney line that Russia needs to be punished, and Rice’s warning that Russia will be isolated, may make them feel good. But the US is much weaker after the increase in power of the oil and gas states like Russia and Iran this year, and isn’t in a position to “isolate”

 [Eteraz Online : اعتراض آنلاین] Political Pipeline: How anti-Iran policy contributed to war in the ...: William Kristol, the "little Lenin" of the neoconservatives, who now has another outlet in the op-ed page of the New York Times, opines that the U.S. must not only give aid to Georgia, but must also help it become a member of the "League of Democracies" that John McCain has proposed. Never mind that in the Georgian "democracy" Saakashvili used police brutality to stop huge demonstrations after hotly disputed elections and shut down opposition publications, and never mind that when democratic elections in Palestine and Lebanon yielded results deemed undesirable by the U.S. (and people like Kristol), they were not only dismissed, but the voters were also punished by U.S. sanctions.

 [Dr Nasir Khan] GEORGIA: Israeli Arms Sales Raise New Concerns: Israel’s immediate concern is that Russia will proceed with the sale of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, which would help it defend its nuclear installations from aerial attack. Israel, like the U.S., believes that Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at developing a bomb, and Israeli leaders have refused to rule out the possibility of a pre-emptive strike aimed at derailing Iran’s nuclear aspirations.

 [Latest News] WN: Israel fears war could hurt Iran effort - Jerusalem Post: Russia's war with Georgia and the infuriated reaction in the West to what US President George W. Bush calls Moscow's "disproportionate response" could make it harder to enlist Russian help on the Iranian issue, according to Israeli .

[San Francisco Sentinel] ISRAEL FEARS GEORGIA WAR COULD HURT IRAN EFFORT: However, she said that if the West - including the expanded EU that included former Soviet satellites that now wanted to take a tough stand against Russia - insisted on taking a hard line on the Georgia issue, then Moscow would likely respond by taking a tough line of its own on other issues, including being less cooperative with the West on Iran

[blog.Tribulationperiod.com] Forgive Me, But I Told You So!: Like Russia under Putin, Turkey under Erdogan’s leadership has masked its rapid transformation from a flawed but pro-Western democracy under its previous governments into an anti-Western - and in Turkey’s case Islamist - regime by paying lip service to the West even as it has taken steps to purge its power structure of pro-Western voices. Just as Putin’s popular government has taken brutal action against his political, intellectual and financial foes, so too, Erdogan’s popularly elected Islamic fundamentalist regime has worked steadily to discredit, criminalize and intimidate its pro-Western rivals.

 [Israel's News Blog Magazine: Daily Stories Video and Photos] How the Georgian conflict might affect Israel?: A growing involvement of American forces in Eastern Europe would make it virtually unable to open a new front in Iran. Furthermore, Russia’s backing is essential for any UN sanctions on Iran, and such backing is already quickly evaporating as the old tensions between the superpowers come to life again.

 [Indybay newswire] US Deters Israel from Attacking Iran; Russian Cooperation seen Key ...: From a Thursday, August 14, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog.

[Matt Trivisonno's Blog] Friday’s Trading: Since it looks like the Russians are intent on giving the Americans and Israelis a black eye in Georgia, maybe they will be more motivated to return the favor with a strike on Iran. In fact, the USA has already retaliated against Russia by speeding up the missile-defense deal with Poland - another issue the Russians are very upset about.

 [The Resourceful Bear Blog] The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili: With Russia openly backing and training the indigenous military in South Ossetia and Abkhazia to maintain Russian presence in the region, especially since the US-backed pro-NATO Saakashvili regime took power in 2004, the Caucasus is rapidly coming to resemble Spain in the Civil War from 1936-1939 where the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and others poured money and weapons and volunteers into Spain in a devastating war that was a precursor to the Second World War.

 [Avraham's One Village - JEWISH & benei Noach's ONE VILLAGE ***Barukh haba***] 'Oil, Israel and Iran' Among Factors that Led to Georgia War (Gl ...: Channel 2's expert on the Muslim world, Ehud Ya'ari, told viewers of the central evening newscast that Russia and neighboring countries were vying for control of a strategic oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. This relatively new pipeline passes through Azerbaijan and Georgia to Turkey and is the only pipeline between Asia and Europe that does not pass through Russia or Iran.

 [SWJ Blog] 15 August SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia’s military operation in Georgia. Russia reacted angrily, saying that the move would worsen relations with the United States that have already been strained severely in the week since Russian troops entered separatist enclaves in Georgia, a close American ally.

 [CTD Weblog] ISRAEL THREATENS TO EXPOSE RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM AS ...: If Russia goes through with the sale of its most advanced anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Israel will use an electronic warfare device now under development to neutralize it and as a result present Russia as vulnerable to air .

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