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Preview: The Spymaster Speaks

September 13, 2012 2:00 AM

Meir Dagan, the former chief of Israel's Mossad, tells Lesley Stahl that Iran is a "rational regime" in an interview about Iran's pursuit of a nuclear bomb. Watch Stahl's report on Sunday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m ET and 6:30 p.m. CT. 60 Minutes will begin at 7:00 p.m. MT/PT.

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by jefyjef September 16, 2012 8:02 PM EDT
Lesley asks stupid questions that she knows very well this man can not or will not answer. Nothing new here to anyone that cares. Old information rehash. Waste of time, bad segment.End.
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by eileenfleming September 16, 2012 8:02 PM EDT
THANK YOU for this story now please continue on and PLEASE report on Israel's Dimona and the ongoing saga of Nuclear Whistle Blower, Moredechai Vanunu who is still WAITING for his right to leave Israel after 7 years of virtual house arrest. Learn lots at The VANUNU SAGA 2005-2012 @
http://wearewideawake.org/

RE: "Israel must be wiped off the map,"

Virginia Tilley, Professor of political science wrote:

"In his October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word 'map' or the term 'wiped off'. According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and even right-wing services like MEMRI, what he actually said was 'this regime that is occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'

"In this speech to an annual anti-Zionist conference, Mr. Ahmadinejad was being prophetic, not threatening. He was citing Imam Khomeini, who said this line in the 1980s (a period when Israel was actually selling arms to Iran, so apparently it was not viewed as so ghastly then). Mr. Ahmadinejad had just reminded his audience that the Shah's regime, the Soviet Union, and Saddam Hussein had all seemed enormously powerful and immovable, yet the first two had vanished almost beyond recall and the third now languished in prison. So, too, the 'occupying regime' in Jerusalem would someday be gone. His message was, in essence, 'This too shall pass.'"

I am Eileen Fleming for US HOUSE D.5, Fl and I approve of all of my messages.
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by taylorsucram September 16, 2012 7:01 PM EDT
In any event, those who denigrate Muslims and Islam (a religion with a Billion followers) as a violent, backwards religion are living in a "Glass House" and really shouldn't throw stones. I know, I know, you need proof. Well break out your "King James", or "Gideons" Bible and acquire that most valuable of things ... KNOWLEDGE.

Acting on God's instructions, the Jews "annihilated everyone who lived in" Makkedah. At Libnah, they again "left no survivors." At Lachish, "they put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah." At Eglon, "they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish." At Hebron, "they annihilated it and all who lived there." Again at Debir, "they annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors." "Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded."
~ (Joshua, Chapter 10.)
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by OscarAGutierrez September 16, 2012 5:17 PM EDT
This interview looks really good ... I can't hardly wait to see the entire segment tonight on CBS 2
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by ANONTDH March 12, 2012 11:26 AM EDT
Zionism has created "rivers of blood," Rabbi Weiss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY

When Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, visited Washington last week on the eve of the Purim holiday, he gave Barack Obama, the US president, what he considered a symbolic gift - a copy of the old testament book of Esther.??Netanyahu called it "background reading on Iran", since its story concerns relations with Jews in the Persian empire some 2,500 years ago.
It is considered by scholars to be mostly fiction, but for Netanyahu Esther represented justification for his stance against modern Iran.
"Israel must reserve the right to defend itself. And after all that's the very purpose of the Jewish state. To restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny," Netanyahu said.??But Netanyahu's controversial reading of history, even his fight to preserve the state of Israel, are questioned by many of Judaism's own religious authorities.??"This is against the will of the Almighty and this is not what it means to be a Jew," says Jewish religious scholar Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for "Jews against Zionism", who believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate. He says that Zionism has created "rivers of blood" and he opposes the occupation of Palestine.
On the threat from Iran and President Ahmadinejad he says: "He gives charity to Jewish communities and he says one thing: he has a problem with the oppression of the Palestinian people. And the words "wipe out" he constantly says that Iran doesn't have a history and he is not talking about harming anybody he says that God will not allow this crime to happen. We concur with him that Jews are in danger because there is Zionism because it says in the Tora if you rebel against God, it will not be successful and there will be catastrophic results and Zionism has brought catastrophic results and it could be much worse."
Today on Talk to Al Jazeera Weiss explains why Zionism and Judaism are not necessarily the same thing.

Source:
Al Jazeera
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by ANONTDH March 12, 2012 8:13 AM EDT
Zionism has created "rivers of blood," Rabbi Weiss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY

When Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, visited Washington last week on the eve of the Purim holiday, he gave Barack Obama, the US president, what he considered a symbolic gift - a copy of the old testament book of Esther.??Netanyahu called it "background reading on Iran", since its story concerns relations with Jews in the Persian empire some 2,500 years ago.
It is considered by scholars to be mostly fiction, but for Netanyahu Esther represented justification for his stance against modern Iran.
"Israel must reserve the right to defend itself. And after all that's the very purpose of the Jewish state. To restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny," Netanyahu said.??But Netanyahu's controversial reading of history, even his fight to preserve the state of Israel, are questioned by many of Judaism's own religious authorities.??"This is against the will of the Almighty and this is not what it means to be a Jew," says Jewish religious scholar Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for "Jews against Zionism", who believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate. He says that Zionism has created "rivers of blood" and he opposes the occupation of Palestine.
On the threat from Iran and President Ahmadinejad he says: "He gives charity to Jewish communities and he says one thing: he has a problem with the oppression of the Palestinian people. And the words "wipe out" he constantly says that Iran doesn't have a history and he is not talking about harming anybody he says that God will not allow this crime to happen. We concur with him that Jews are in danger because there is Zionism because it says in the Tora if you rebel against God, it will not be successful and there will be catastrophic results and Zionism has brought catastrophic results and it could be much worse."
Today on Talk to Al Jazeera Weiss explains why Zionism and Judaism are not necessarily the same thing.

Source:
Al Jazeera
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by ANONTDH March 11, 2012 8:46 PM EDT
Zionism has created "rivers of blood," Rabbi Weiss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUppu2OHVTY

When Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, visited Washington last week on the eve of the Purim holiday, he gave Barack Obama, the US president, what he considered a symbolic gift - a copy of the old testament book of Esther.??Netanyahu called it "background reading on Iran", since its story concerns relations with Jews in the Persian empire some 2,500 years ago.
It is considered by scholars to be mostly fiction, but for Netanyahu Esther represented justification for his stance against modern Iran.
"Israel must reserve the right to defend itself. And after all that's the very purpose of the Jewish state. To restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny," Netanyahu said.??But Netanyahu's controversial reading of history, even his fight to preserve the state of Israel, are questioned by many of Judaism's own religious authorities.??"This is against the will of the Almighty and this is not what it means to be a Jew," says Jewish religious scholar Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for "Jews against Zionism", who believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate. He says that Zionism has created "rivers of blood" and he opposes the occupation of Palestine.
On the threat from Iran and President Ahmadinejad he says: "He gives charity to Jewish communities and he says one thing: he has a problem with the oppression of the Palestinian people. And the words "wipe out" he constantly says that Iran doesn't have a history and he is not talking about harming anybody he says that God will not allow this crime to happen. We concur with him that Jews are in danger because there is Zionism because it says in the Tora if you rebel against God, it will not be successful and there will be catastrophic results and Zionism has brought catastrophic results and it could be much worse."
Today on Talk to Al Jazeera Weiss explains why Zionism and Judaism are not necessarily the same thing.

Source:
Al Jazeera
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by STEVENROHAN March 10, 2012 3:09 AM EST
I am quite surprised to hear very intelligent comment from a very intelligent man, whose business is intelligence.

Follow his intelligent advice. He's got more time on this than anyone else.

Iranians have had 4000 years to get it right. Politics from the land that plays chess with a world that plays checkers. This is what the INTEL man wants to say: You are misperceiving a chess game for checkers.

Attacking, bombing a country? Is an ACT OF WAR!
You folks keen on making the Mayan 2012 Calandar come true?
Let me get this right. You want to START a war to PREVENT a war?
Wow. Genius.

I get a kick of Leslie sitting there talking about bombing another country as if though its a Nintendo console, and she needs to do it, before she makes pop corn and sits down for her DVD she picked up in her mail. I think she needs to start wearing cowboy boots and consider some brain boosting pills. INTEL definitely not inside.

Ahmadinejad is already on his way out anyway, with the dismal recent elections. These are rational people and not prone to causing wars.


Confucius say: If country is intelligent enough to make nukes, intelligent enough to know its use would be an ecological nightmare for itself.

Leslie. You should consider retiring.
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by STEVENROHAN March 10, 2012 3:04 AM EST
haha! I am quite surprised to hear very intelligent comment from a very intelligent man, whose business is intelligent.

Iranians have had 4000 years to get it right. Politics from the land that plays chess with a world that plays checkers. This is what the INTEL man wants to say: You are misperceiving a chess game for checkers.

Attacking, bombing a country? Is an ACT OF WAR!

I get a kick of Leslie sitting there talking about bombing another country as if though its a Nintendo console, and she needs to do it, before she makes pop corn and sits down for her DVD she picked up in her mail. I think she needs to start wearing cowboy boots and consider some brain boosting pills. INTEL definitely not inside.

Confucius say: If country is intelligent enough to make nukes, intelligent enough to know its use would be an ecological nightmare for itself.

Leslie. You should consider retiring.
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by joshuaslane March 9, 2012 10:30 PM EST
The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War.[2] The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and one civilian), wounded 170 crew members, and severely damaged the ship
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