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Home / Headlines / More and more Jewish Voices opposing Israel-Promoted pre-emptive Attack on Iran - Media Monitors Network (MMN): "Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is critical of those who urge a pre-emptive attack on Iran and who, in his view, overestimate its potential danger. “Though rich in oil,” he notes, “Iran is a Third World country with a population of 80 million and a per capita income of $2,440...Its annual defense budget stands at about $6.3 billion—a little more than half of Israel’s and a little less than 2 percent of America’s. Iran, in fact, spends a smaller percentage of its resources on defense than any of its neighbors except the United Arab Emirates.”
Columnist Leonard Fein of The Forward observed that “Podhoretz wants to use force now. Others, including a disturbing number of major Jewish organizations, endorse ‘merely’ the threat of force, loudly proclaiming that ‘all options’ must be on the table. Is such a threat a useful deterrent, or does it instead increase Iran’s very real sense of vulnerability, thereby encouraging precisely the behavior it is meant to deter? And is not such talk a way of creeping toward a war? Another real war just now? Madness. Yet this is the risk being pressed on us. Why must Jewish organizations be and be seen as the loudest drum-beaters of all?...Germany, 1938? The more relevant and equally cautionary precedent is Iraq, 2003—and counting.”
Consider the views of Keith Weissman, one of two former AIPAC staff members against whom espionage charges were abandoned by U.S. prosecutors in May. A specialist on Iran, Weissman has lived in that country, speaks Persian and wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago on Iranian history."
Columnist Leonard Fein of The Forward observed that “Podhoretz wants to use force now. Others, including a disturbing number of major Jewish organizations, endorse ‘merely’ the threat of force, loudly proclaiming that ‘all options’ must be on the table. Is such a threat a useful deterrent, or does it instead increase Iran’s very real sense of vulnerability, thereby encouraging precisely the behavior it is meant to deter? And is not such talk a way of creeping toward a war? Another real war just now? Madness. Yet this is the risk being pressed on us. Why must Jewish organizations be and be seen as the loudest drum-beaters of all?...Germany, 1938? The more relevant and equally cautionary precedent is Iraq, 2003—and counting.”
Consider the views of Keith Weissman, one of two former AIPAC staff members against whom espionage charges were abandoned by U.S. prosecutors in May. A specialist on Iran, Weissman has lived in that country, speaks Persian and wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago on Iranian history."
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