736th day of the Tens

Mossad Chief: Nuclear Iran does not pose ‘existential’ threat

The current head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency pulls the rug from under the feet of Israeli neoliberals - who keep their company with the likes of the 'presidential celebrity' - who want to attack Iran and/or Syria in order to orchestrate a third world war.

According to sources quoted in the 29th December Haaretz, Mossad chief Tamir Pardo told an audience of Israeli diplomats that a nuclear Iran does not necessarily present an existential threat to Israel. This view contrasts with that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that a nuclear Iran might lead to another holocaust.

Pardo reportedly made his comments in a closed forum of 100 Israeli ambassadors on 27th December. According to Haaretz’s diplomatic sources, Pardo says that Israel [uses] various means to undermine Iran’s nuclear program, but [questions] the use of the term “existential threat” if Iran's nuclear power presents a threat to Israel's national security.

“What is the significance of the term existential threat?” Pardo asks. “Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely. But if one said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an existential threat, that would mean that we would have to close up shop and go home. That’s not the situation. The term existential threat is used too freely.” Pardo did not comment on the possibility of an Israeli military strike against Iran.

According to the sources, Pardo sees the European and world economic crises as a more serious and immediate threat. While devoting five minutes in his presentation to the Iranian threat, Pardo spent no less than 20 minutes on threats to the Israeli economy.

Reports of an all-out brawl over plans by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Netanyahu, to launch a preemptive attack against Iran, rage within the Israeli military-security establishment. Pardo’s predecessor, Meir Dagan, makes the point against Barak and Netanyahu and last month said Israel should only resort to military force “when the knife is at its throat and begins to cut into the flesh," warning that their drive for a war could drag Israel and the entire region into a major war that would be disastrous.

The Great Wipeout of 2012 begins

Pardo recognises the global economic collapse facing Israel—and the world— as its existential threat. The financial body count of 2012 looks even worse than the horror of the past year. In 2011, global stock markets wiped out assets to the tune of US$6.3 trillion — a loss of 12.1 per cent, according to the January 1 Financial Times. But these losses, as dramatic as they seem, barely mark the beginning of the blowout to come early this year, in 2012. In the first quarter of the year alone, the countries of the Eurozone shall face 457 billion euros in sovereign debt rollover, with Italy alone scheduled to pay 113 billion euro. This seems impossible, especially with Italy paying more than 7 per cent yields on 10-year bonds at an auction over a week ago.

Sources at one of the regional Federal Reserve banks in the United States — upon which China depends for its growth and Australia for virtually its entire income — completed a study for internal circulation, which indicates that the housing collapse shall continue unabated, real unemployment shall equal the levels of that which the worst of the Great Depression saw, and inflation shall rise. The official government claims play these sombre facts down. Concerning Main Street, manufacturing remains at the same level of collapse as in September 2008, at the time of the Lehman Brothers blowout.

Sources:
[1]. Citizens Electoral Council of New Zealand {Wednesday, 4 January 2012, 11:40 am}::
[2]. Citizens Electoral Council of Australia {Media Release 3rd of January 2012}::

NB. Which Federal Reserve Bank in the US does Australia depend on for virtually its entire income?