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Guess who says Iran is not an existential threat

You either have to be an Israeli or have to have been following events here for six years or more to appreciate just how rich this is. Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says that Iran is not an existential threat. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

"Iran does not pose an existential threat to Israel," former IDF Chief Dan Halutz said Friday. Halutz spoke at a strategy seminar held in Herzliya.

"Iran poses a serious threat to Israel, but there is difference between 'serious' and 'existential,'" he said. Halutz' current position on the matter stands in stark contrast to the one he held when he served as the chief of staff.

"We may find ourselves facing an existential threat if Iran continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions… it's the only existential threat I can perceive for Israel," he said in 2006.

In October of 2006 he reiterated his position, saying: "(Israel) cannot remain indifferent to Iran, it has a combination of radical ideology with an intense desire to obtain nuclear weapons and the desire to destroy Israel."

Halutz was the worst chief of staff the IDF has ever had, having no plan and no clue how to deal with the Second Lebanon War, which occurred on his watch. He was forced to resign in disgrace after the investigative committee report came out.

So why did he say Iran was an existential threat in 2006? Because Halutz is a flaming Leftist, and in 2006, the Left's line was the Obama line (you didn't think Obama ever had an original thought, did you?), which said that Israel had to give away our heartland to the 'Palestinians' so that we could concentrate on the existential threat from Iran.

Hopefully, no one is foolish enough to listen to Dan Halutz. He is a serial failure.

Labels: Dan Halutz, Iranian nuclear threat, Second Lebanon War

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:59 PM