well DR ali i think iran farsi should be liberated by pakistan soon becuse u seem to destablise iraq nowdays and yes i think pakistan have a great leader now called imran khan who understands most of the world but yr farsi wondering flame eating ahmedjad is lost in world policitcs lets libaerte eastern baluchistan now okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk it is right of self-dertemiantoin after all okkkkkkkkkkk.

From another thread on this topic:

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/2007/12/bhutto_assassinated_whither_pa/comments.html

You know this discussion about the apparently growing alliance between India, the US and Israel is not really off topic. It is very central to the subject of this thread on what the future holds for Pakistan, given the heated Indo-Pakistani feud over Jammu and Kashmir.

The front page news yesterday was the first ever crossing of the $100 per barrel threshold for oil. This is a 100% price increase in just the last year, and this trend is likely to continue given the increasing demand for energy in China, India and the rest of the developing world. We have already passed the “Peak Oil” production capability, so availability will decline in coming years as demand rapidly increases. This will make China, Russia and Iran natural allies as the following article notes:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GF04Ad07.html

June 4, 2005

“The military implementation of the George W Bush administration's unilateralist foreign policy is creating monumental changes in the world's geostrategic alliances. The most significant of these changes is the formation of a new triangle comprised of China, Iran and Russia.

Growing ties between Moscow and Beijing in the past 18 months is an important geopolitical event that has gone practically unnoticed. China's premier, Wen Jiabao, visited Russia in September 2004. In October 2004, President Vladimir Putin visited China. During the October meeting, both China and Russia declared that Sino-Russian relations had reached "unparalleled heights". In addition to settling long-standing border issues, Moscow and Beijing agreed to hold joint military exercises in 2005. This marks the first large-scale military exercises between Russia and China since 1958.

The joint military exercises complement a rapidly growing arms trade between Moscow and Beijing. China is Russia's largest buyer of military equipment. In 2004, China was reported to have signed deals worth more than $2 billion for Russian arms. These included naval ships and submarines, missile systems and aircraft. According to the head of Russia's armed forces, Anatoliy Kvashnin, "our defense industrial complex is working for this country [China], supplying the latest models of arms and military equipment, which the Russian army does not have". Russia's relations with China are not limited to military trade. In the past five years, non-military trade between Russia and China has increased at an average annual rate of nearly 20%. Moscow and Beijing have targeted non-military trade to reach $60 billion by 2010, from $20 billion in 2004. One of the key components of commercial trade is Russian energy exports to China.

In early 2005, Moscow agreed to more than double electricity exports to China, to 800 million kilowatt hours (kWh), by 2006. Officials at Russia's electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems, are also courting Chinese investment in the development and renovation of Russia's electricity system. In October 2004, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Russia's Gazprom signed a series of agreements intended to study how Russia can best supply natural gas to China. At the same time, Russia signed specific agreements with China on oil exports.

Russia's oil shipments to China are slated to reach 10 million tons in 2005, increasing to 15 million tons in 2006. All of these shipments will be made by rail. However, this agreement was overshadowed by talks concerning the construction of an oil pipeline from Siberia to northern China. Russia has been pondering an oil pipeline to China for nearly 10 years. In 2002, plans for this pipeline received a boost when Moscow pledged to invest $2 billion in an oil pipeline running from the Siberian city of Angarsk to Daqing in northeastern China…”

The article goes on to say that at the request of Japan, who is willing to finance the entire $10 Billion plus cost of the pipeline, the pipeline will terminate at Russia's Pacific port of Nakhodka. The pipeline will still pass within 40 miles of the Russian border with China, so it will be a simple matter to add a spur directly into China.

So what we have brewing here is an alliance between China, Russia, Iran and possibly Japan. I can see Pakistan and Afghanistan joining this alliance. The question then is which way would Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the other Gulf Oil States go? Iraq would undoubtedly go with their Shiite brethren in Iran. The presence of the Zionist occupiers of Palestine in the US_Israel_India axis of evil would probably drive the Suni Gulf Oil States to hold their nose and join the Russia_China_Iran axis.

So if I were you Dolivaw, I would reevaluate your growing ties with the US_Israel axis of evil. This would also tend to keep your large Muslim minority from attempting to secede. The future world superpowers will be in the Russia_China_Iran axis.

SO WHAT IS REALLY THE PRO-ISRAEL AGENDA WITH REGARDS TO OIL?

First of all, the ethno-centric Jewish state of Israel is a small, resource-poor country, with no natural oil resources, and is almost completely dependent on US support in the form of not only massive financial support (billions of US tax dollars yearly) but US military and political cover as well. Israel, quite simply, would not survive as the apartheid, imperialistic, war-mongering Jewish state that it is, without the massive support of the US government. Israel is surrounded by well-deserved, self-made enemies thanks to the initial injustice of the UN unilaterally giving away Arab land that was not theirs to give away in the first place to Eastern European Zionist Jews who have been committing ethnic cleansing and persecution of the indigenous non-Jewish Palestinians ever since 1948. Since that time, Israel has continued to aggressively steal even more Arab land and has blatant ambitions to control the entire Middle East, using the power and might of the United States.

If more Americans were truly aware of how racist and imperialistic Israel is, they would most likely demand that our government stop supporting Israel at all until it is transformed into a true democracy for all regardless of religion, race or gender, as the world pressured South Africa to transform from an apartheid country to a true democracy ten years ago. If more Americans knew how support of Israel increases anti-American sentiment worldwide and ensures endless unjust wars, they might very well question their government's support of Israel. There are many reasons for Americans to question their government's support of Israel including first and foremost for real financial and security concerns as well as our country's hard-won reputation as a democracy for all, regardless of religion, race or gender.

The fact is that the pro-Israel, Zionist-dominated US media very rarely even mentions the topic of Israel outside of incidents that involve Palestinian suicide bombers, which then make the screaming front page headlines. The footage of the aftermath of such an attack is played over and over again, back to back on CNN and Fox News and all the other US media. These isolated attacks by Palestinian suicide bombers are thus over-reported while the context in which these desperate acts occur is usually completely ignored. The on-going brutal persecution of the non-Jewish Palestinian people, including the killing of innocent civilians and children, since 1948 by the Israeli army goes almost totally unreported and is generally veiled from view by the American public.

PRO-ISRAEL FORCES WANT TO RE-OPEN A PIPELINE FROM IRAQ TO HAIFA, ISRAEL

The fact that American-Israelis in our government are endeavoring to use the war on Iraq as a way for Israel to gain control over oil in the Middle East is rarely reported in the mainstream pro-Israel US media with your average American readership, however it has been reported in Jewish newspapers with Jewish readership and in Israeli papers.

A case in point is the fact that American-Israelis in our government want to "re-open" or re-instate, the pipeline that used to exist between Iraq and Palestine, which is now specifically Haifa, Israel. When Israel was created in 1948, that pipeline was re-directed by Iraq to Syria. Now pro-Israel forces are actively seeking to cut off the pipeline to Syria and re-direct it to Haifa, Israel. For more information on this, please do a Google-search using such keywords such as "Iraq oil pipeline to Haifa, Israel" and see what you come up with.

Just as Israel's connection to the war on Iraq has been kept out of the US mainstream media (as you may have noticed, Israel has not even been mentioned as one of our "allies" in the war on Iraq), this choice nugget of information with regards to Israel's ambition to get a basically free supply of Iraqi oil is also kept out of view for vast American public consumption.

Hi Victoria,

BTW, we didn’t invite the Israelis to join our “coalition of the willing”. That’s the last thing we need is a bunch of Jews helping us invade and occupy another sovereign Muslim state.

After all, everyone knows that the reason that we invaded Iraq was to install a puppet government and gain access the world’s second largest oil field for us and the Israelis. Even Alan Greenspan admits that.

Peace!

israel doesnt have to ask for anything-
there is a legion of lobbyists who make sure of that-

so AIPAC demands for them-

if i send my brother to ask for a 300 billion dollar "loan" to float me til payday, does that mean when you show up to be paid, i can say," I didnt ask for it?"

and the US has laws about foreign aid that it must be cut off after 10 years-

but, somehow, mysteriously, the laws have been circumvented in israels special case.

lets elect a president who vows to rid us of these special inerest groups who are draining our pockets and skewing our foreign policies
to such a degree that people actually feel comfortable talking about going and bombing some people in iran to protect some people in israel who dont even have the courtesy to offer a few troops to help us protect THEM!

lets take that 8 billion or so a year we put into israeli cluster bombs and send it to palestine to repair the 60 years of continual damage done to their infrastructure and psyche.

lets build some schools and hospitals and counseling centers so the new generation of palestinian will have something else to remember and think about besides their paretns being blown up in front of them-

that way the israelis can lay on their stolen beaches in comfort and security and get out of our pockets and have to support themselves.

because that is what it comes down to-

the biggest welfare state on the planet-

when i dont have health insurance, or a job, and cant buy a home for my family, im not really all that worried about middle class israelis comfort level.

call me crazy

Irmgard Gesund,

How do you justify Israel's behavior relative to the Palestinan people:

1. The Zionist invader is occupying stolen land that it acquired by force, with an assist from the world’s superpowers, and so has no grounds for complaint when it is attacked in return by the displaced native population.

2. Israel continues to increase its illegal acquisition of Palestinian land in the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. It has withdrawn from Gaza (for the moment) but continues to suppress the economy and limit access to vital resources such as water, fuel and electricity.

3. Israel's policy regarding water supply in the West Bank is illegal and discriminates on racial grounds. It flagrantly breaches international law which requires Israel to ensure proper living conditions for the occupied population and to respect the Palestinians' human rights, including the right to receive a sufficient quantity of water to meet their basic needs.”

4. Israel is violating the international law on water since the water resources in the Occupied Territories were integrated into the legal and bureaucratic system of Israel, severely limiting the ability of Palestinians to develop those resources…

5. Israel’s use of groundwater of the Occupied Territories in the settlements is a breach of article 55 of the Hague Regulations.

6. Israel is in breach of Article 27 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 which prohibits an occupying state from discriminating between residents of occupied territory; since the quantity of water supplied to the settlements is vastly larger than that which is supplied to the Palestinians.

7. Israel is in breach of article 6 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. Examination of the current division of water between Israel and the Palestinians leads to the conclusion that this division violates Palestinian rights and contravenes international water law.

8. Even Israel’s own human rights organization considers them to be racist, illegal and “discriminates on racial grounds”.

9. Israel hogs 80% of the regions water supply to keep their swimming pools full and lawns green, while leaving the Palestinians less than half the amount considered necessary of minimum health requirements by the WHO and USAID organizations.

10. The Zionist war criminals have killed more than 6 times the number of Palestinian civilians, as Palestinians have killed Israeli civilians.

11. The Zionist war criminals have killed more than 17 times the number of Palestinian children, as Palestinians have killed Israeli children.

12. Your repeated excuses that you drop leaflets to warn civilian population centers that are about to be bombed back to the stone ages, and apologize after the fact, are disgusting.

13. Your constant whining that suicide bombers kill women and children, a tiny fraction of the women and children slaughtered by the Zionist war criminal, is disgusting in the extreme.

Note to Cryingoverspiltmilk:
Thanks for your good advice. I will stay in for another round. You end your comment with your wish that Semites (here I use the term in the dictionary sense) would love one another. If the hatred expressed in the comments accompanying this article are any indication, that would seem a very vain hope.
I am amazed at the ignorance expressed in these comments. Israel never asked the US or any other country to fight for it. It has always fought its own wars, and against great odds. Israel's ability to act alone and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities is dependent on US sharing of codes, so that when Israel goes to do the job, it does not interfere with US aircraft in the region. All the above hate-filled taunts, implying that Israel doesn't fight her own battles, show a complete ignorance of how limited Israel's freedom of action really is. It is the US which pulls the strings--and always has.
The situation in Pakistan is very serious and requires the developement of vigilant, new strategic planning. But it in no way negates the danger that Iran poses--not just to Israel, but to all the rest of us "Infidels" and our way of life. I hope we shall not have to find that out the hard way. Both the Sunni and the Shia versions of militant Islamism share a similar vision in this respect.

Note to Cryingoverspiltmilk:
Thanks for your good advice. I will stay in for another round. You end your comment with your wish that Semites (here I use the term in the dictionary sense) would love one another. If the hatred expressed in the comments accompanying this article are any indication, that would seem a very vain hope.
I am amazed at the ignorance expressed in these comments. Israel never asked the US or any other country to fight for it. It has always fought its own wars, and against great odds. Israel's ability to act alone and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities is dependent on US sharing of codes, so that when Israel goes to do the job, it does not interfere with US aircraft in the region. All the above hate-filled taunts, implying that Israel doesn't fight her own battles, show a complete ignorance of how limited Israel's freedom of action really is. It is the US which pulls the strings--and always has.
The situation in Pakistan is very serious and requires the developement of vigilant, new strategic planning. But it in no way negates the danger that Iran poses--not just to Israel, but to all the rest of us "Infidels" and our way of life. I hope we shall not have to find that out the hard way. Both the Sunni and the Shia versions of militant Islamism share a similar vision in this respect.

no comment. It comments itself

When will Israel quit asking the United States to continue nurse-maiding it? Its' been a nation for some sixty years now, has receved billions upon billions of U.S. dollars, is the only nation in the mideast with its own nuclear weapon stash, with one of the strongest military forces.
We went to war with Iraq to help protect Israel, without a single boot on the ground from this "ally". Now Israel is cheering the U.S. on to "go get Iran". Mr. Singer, it is well past time for Israel to act like of nation, instead of a spoiled chld. If you and the rest of your kind think that Iran should be attacked, I say "GO GET 'EM"! The rest of the world will stand by and give you the same help which you gave the U.S. in its crazy invasion of Iraq. If you do not think that this a good idea, SHUT UP!

Mr Singer-OH, Shut UP!!!!!

It's a bit hard to take an editorialist from one of Conrad Black's former mouthpiece-papers seriously. And it's a bit of a mixed metaphor to refer to a "holy grail" in an Islamic context (from a Jewish writer at that).

The recent US National Intelligence Estimate suggested that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program and there isn't likely to be one in the short term. The US has enough real problems without worrying about the imaginary terrors; that kind of unclear thinking is what got the US bogged down in Iraq in the first place.

Confrontational rhetoric hasn't worked and isn't going to anywhere in the Middle East. A carrot-and-stick approach is the only way to get undemocratic regimes to behave in a somewhat rational way, as is starting to happen with North Korea. Sanctions may be useful, but only if there is a clear and achievable path away from that step, which can only happen with intelligent diplomacy. Grandstanding just entrenches dictatorships, a lesson we should have learned from Cuba over the past few decades, and just pushes regimes to greater extremism, causing suffering for both their people and, occasionally, ours.

There is also the question of how much all these wars are going to cost, in blood and money, and who gets to pay the cost. Ultimately Iran's problems belong to Iran, as do Pakistan's to Pakistan and Iraq's to Iraq. The US has no obligation to burn trillions of dollars to try to impose democracy on places that aren't quite ready for it.

Israel's problems are the result of its ongoing occupation the West Bank. The occupation itself is a daily act of aggression which is a grossly disproportionate response to Palestinian resistance. Geostrategic conflicts in other parts of the Middle East aren't going to resolve this core issue.

It's the old story of you and him fight. If Israel is so concerned, let them lead the attack.

It's the old story of you and him fight. If Israel is so concerned, let them lead the attack.

It's the old story of you and him fight. If Israel is so concerned, let them lead the attack.

I see the Washington Post is still carrying this evil piece of trash article written by their sick-in-the-head terrorist from the middle east.

There is no Iranian bomb. What the hell is wrong with eveybody?

We get good news from 16 intelligence agencies that banded together so the Bushies couldn't lie again like they did in Iraq, and talking heads sound more stupid about Iran than ever.

Goddam war hawks. Go fight Iran yourselves. Quit trying to involve American lives in wars for oil and nothing real, as was the case in Iraq,

Stretch. Pakistan has a nuclear weapon, shouldn't they be attacked first. Or am I confused. Maybe you meant North Korea, but then they are nuclear non-muslim axis of evil. Please, who to attack first.

Stretch. Pakistan has a nuclear weapon, shouldn't they be attacked first. Or am I confused. Maybe you meant North Korea, but then they are nuclear non-muslim axis of evil. Please, who to attack first.

The muslims hate the U.S. because we aid and abet Israel's Zionist demands. Your illegal country is very much to blame for the middle east quagmire as is your country's big brother, America. Zionism is to blame for inflaming muslim-hatred. May the U.S. not get lied into another illegal war -this time, against Iran or Pakistan. Do not vote for Hilary or the other Republicans.

Why are you so full of hatred against Iran?

Is it Iranians who were responsible for the Holocaust?

But, no, it is YOU who are hopelessly sick.

If WAPO was a news media of a civilized country, it would alreay have been closed down for allowing the publication of such hateful literature.

But then, witha Government that is responsible for an illegal war in Iraq and has just congratulated Mwai Kibaki of Kenya before gulping back its foul utternaces, can we really expect anything better?

This is possibly the most ludicrous, delusional and absurd piece of neocon propaganda I have ever read.

I doubt I could add much more to the arguments against Mr. Singer. I continue to be amazed at the constant beat of the drum for war against Iran. Is there no excuse you will not roll out?

Since the nuclear genie is out of the bottle worldwide, it is hard to state with certainty that any nuclear attack on the U.S would be because Iran gave nuclear weapons to anyone. There is enough rouge activity with old, Russian nukes for us to loose sleep over. None of the nations in that region will attack us directly, nor do they have the capability to land a missile on our shores. If Mr. Singer is all fired up about attacking Iran, let him convince his Israeli buddies to do it. Better yet, why doesn't he charge into Iran himself and do the job?

Here we go again, the "Islamo-Facist" myth that all Muslims are united in grand battle against the West. Where is the proof of this conspiracy? The documents, the satellite photos, video tapes, confessions? The truth is that there is no proof to back up these apocalyptic charges. What this boils down to is that you have hardliners in Israel and the U.S. who refuse to give up the West Bank to the Palestinians. These ideologues want the U.S. to go to war with Iran or anyone else who stands in the way of their objective.

Hank,

Amen brother. You are genius. Are you sure you don’t want to run for president as an independent? On that platform you would be elected in a landslide.

Oops! I forgot; we live in America, the only country in the world to think that what Israel does to the Palestinians is AOK with us.

Golem is tired of war and prefers to sit this one out.

The cause of Bhutto's death has not yet been absolutly confirmed, and the perpetrator has yet to be confirmed, and already we have another jew, trying to get us to attack Iran. If Israelies insist on living in the middle of millions of people that hate their guts, let them fight their own battles. If they want to fight Iran, be my guest, but leave the US out of it. We've done enough fighting for the jews.

This is rich. Everything that happens in the world is about Israel and Iran. The former has perfected the art of extra-judicial assassination and sometimes sells arms to the latter.

It is ludicrous to paint Iran as the foremost jihadi state while Saudi Arabians continue to shield, arm and fund terrorist under the aegis of the Bush clan

You can always spot the Zionist Zealots using their fearmongering propaganda to confuse the US populace by the way they try to lump Hamas and Hezbolah under the same umbrella as Al Quaeda, as if there's no distinction.

They want so much to make Israel's ememies America's enemies that they invent this word "Islamo-fascists" to try and link them all together.

You can always spot the Zionist Zealots using their fearmongering propaganda to confuse the US populace by the way they try to lump Hamas and Hezbolah under the same umbrella as Al Quaeda, as if there's no distinction.

They want so much to make Israel's ememies America's enemies that they invent this word "Islamo-fascists" to try and link them all together.

Sir, Israel has plenty of weapons and equipment to do the job. Three nukes, four tops, could bring your wet dream to climax and we could stay home for a change.

******* Jews!

It makes me sick. YOu would think that after Iraq - we had to fight them to help Israel - the 20 of the 25 Jewish Neocons would tone down. Not at all. YOu would think the Jewish columnists like Chuck K and Singer and other would tone down.
Then we had to fight Iran to help Israel and now Pakistan? No shame at all.
Who is next? Help Iceland by bombing Iran? No, seriously, after Iran, it will be Syria.
I really expected nothing better from Singer. His main purpose is promoting war that benefits Israel against Muslim nation.
I am most disappointed that the WaPo continues to allow there site to used by the neocons to promote wars that benefit Israel.
And Bush asks, "why do they hate us?"

Saul Singer serves no Jewish cause!

His opinions, common among the Zionist Right Wing, are anti-Jewish, and thus anti-semitic.

It is time to clean up the modern vocabulary and spell it all out: one can be anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, but not necessarily anti-Semite and or anti-Jew.
The Zionists are a relatively minor lot within the entire Jewish race of 15m people around the world.

Concurrently, it is also possible to be an opponent to the dangerously mad ideas of this writer.

The ideas of this writer is stupid and dangerous, very dangerous. Has The Washington Post gone mad too?

what a dumb idea....its like going after Saddam for avenging 9/11

Anonymous at 3:50 P.M. above:

You are exactly, precisely, right.

The MSM (jewish owned) as of this hour is not telling the full story of the latest OBL tape...where he says rescuing the Palestinians is the next AQ push.

Can you imagine how the world will cheer, and that includes most Americans.

NOTE TO IRMGAD GESUND
I'm not a Semite, but the idea that any modern definition of ANTI SEMITISM applies to all Semitic peoples is obviously ludicrous. Properly used, it has applied SOLELY to JEWS from at least the late 18th century. To lump Arabs and a bunch of others in the same category as Jews seems to me to be trying to play a fast one. My advise is to stay on this site and contribute and thereby balance the anti-semitism you seem to see. Opposition to any, or all, Israeli policies does not make one an anti-semite. We non-semites love all semites alike. We just wish you'd love one another. Nuff said.

If Mr. Singer really believes ha al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists want an Iranian (Shiite}, nuclear or otherwise, then he lives in a fantasy world. Sunni extremists view Shiites in he same light as they view Americans: INFIDELS. The nuclear arsenal that should raise concern is the already existing one in Sunni Pakistan, and not the as yet uncreated one that may or may not surface in Iran. Does Mr. Singer remember that he first modern state that declared itself an Islamic state was Pakistan? (See breakup of India in 1948). Does Mr. Singer recall that Pakistani governments, military and civilian, have transfered nuclear tech to all and sundry, insofar as all and sundry were Muslim countries? This fixation on the irrelevant (Iraq) has led to the USA's most calamitous foreign policy blunder, Vietnam inclusive. Continued fixation is likely to lead to a greater one (Iran). Having gone to war on a lie (the existence of WMD in Iraq) the world is now being psyched up for another episode. Fix Pakistan! It wont be easy, but it needs to be done. 1st, Musharraf has got to go. The longer he stays the more dangerous the repercussions that will come when he goes.

To Just A Note:
Next you will be telling me that the Arabs would like to hear that they are hated by "anti-Semites"
Stop with the parsing. Wise up--since Clinton, everybody knows what "is" means.

From 2000 thru 2003 it was "to help Israel fight Iraq"...

Now the Zionist Neo_cons want us to fight Iran...

and they will have more "whys" in stock for those who want to believe them...

According to the Webster dictionery Semite means "a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs"
By calling only the people who are not receptive to the Jewish cause, "Anti-Semite", you are infringing on the Arab's right to be hated too.

Being new to your site, I wondered what you were about. Now that I have read the comments that have poured in from your readers, I know. You represent the most vicious anti-semites around.

To help America, fight Israel.

Mr. Singer, you're alarmist rhetoric doesn't do any favors for your people or country. It is more than obvious that you have been brainwashed by your religious leaders much like the jihadists you so blatantly loathe. Stop spewing hate propaganda and get real job you schmuck!

To Mr. Saul Singer, allow me to say in Yiddish that you are truly gornisht helfn (beyond help).

We all here wish that you would ikh hob dir in drerd (go to hell).

That you are truly a farshtinkener (Awful Person).

And A shvarts yor (An awful year) to you and every Schmuck like yourself.

To the rest of you, Happy New Year.

Saul Singer offers the typical Jewish respons - fight war with more war. It's OK for Israel to have a nuclear arsenal, but we don't talk about that.
All the horrors of the world can be distilled to the kind of mindset that Singer embraces. "We need more war to fight war"
Mr. Singer, you and your country are as evil as your purported enemies.

Bring 'em on....and watch how wrong you and your entire lot shall be proven to be, with the death of every one that dares to attack Iran.

Your supposed "super powerful" army got creamed when you attacked Lebanon and Hezbollah in summer of 2006..... where Israel lost 72 tanks, its flagship naval vessel, it main military air traffic centre and....the hallucinations about being a strong army! And your electronic jamming systems were not effective and Hezbollah had infiltrated your supposedly "world class" military intelligence...in exchange for drugs, I should add! ...and the other side didn't have American fighter jets, satellite images or tanks. All they had was a STRONG WILL.

The word DEFEAT was mentioned more than 100 times in the report of the Knesset on that "war".

So, tell me, when do want Round Two, my boy???

sick, absurd and dangerous describes the writer. If this represents the mentality of Israelis in general, it is time to wipe it off the map--alternatively, lock this man up in Guantanamor.

Opinion page of Post is sub-standard! What is the criteria of getting space here?

I urge you folks to start reading international newspapers on internet (google news is one option). goodbye

I just had a thought: do Middle Eastern newspapers print Ann Coulter editorials in their papers? If so, do their populations think all Americans think like her? For the conspiracy minded, I have noticed that "Saul Singer" is an anagram for "anus grisle".

It is quite mind-bending how Mr. Singer, sitting in Jerusalem turns Mrs. Bhutto's death in to an Israeli Agenda issue. While Iran's Nuclear threat is absolutely a real issue and needs to be tackled, it seems to be clear that politics is same everywhere -- be it White House using 9/11 to attack Iraq, Obama and Clinton using Mrs. Bhutto's death to attach each other and Mr. Singer using similarly obtuse logic to serve his Agenda.

What about the real issue at hand? The issue of Pakistan as Terror Central and dealing with Pakistan ISI and Musharraf head on? Any serious student of the region will tell you that Taliban and Al Qaeda will die down faster than you can say "c-h-e-e-s-e" if not for Pakistani Army and ISI support.

It is another mind-bending fact of international politics that US will not deal with the real problem even though it surely can: Musharraf & ISI have their weak points like the huge US aid, military pressure and other choke points like Chinese and European support & aid cutback.
So, following Sherlock Holmes logic of the process of elimination, whatever possibility is left, no matter how improbable, is the only correct alternative. Hence to me the only possibility left is that instability in all these countries seems to be somehow wanted by all the power players.

It is quite mind-bending how Mr. Singer, sitting in Jerusalem turns Mrs. Bhutto's death in to an Israeli Agenda issue. While Iran's Nuclear threat is absolutely a real issue and needs to be tackled, it seems to be clear that politics is same everywhere -- be it White House using 9/11 to attack Iraq, Obama and Clinton using Mrs. Bhutto's death to attach each other and Mr. Singer using similarly obtuse logic to serve his Agenda.

What about the real issue at hand? The issue of Pakistan as Terror Central and dealing with Pakistan ISI and Musharraf head on? Any serious student of the region will tell you that Taliban and Al Qaeda will die down faster than you can say "c-h-e-e-s-e" if not for Pakistani Army and ISI support.

It is another mind-bending fact of international politics that US will not deal with the real problem even though it surely can: Musharraf & ISI have their weak points like the huge US aid, military pressure and other choke points like Chinese and European support & aid cutback.
So, following Sherlock Holmes logic of the process of elimination, whatever possibility is left, no matter how improbable, is the only correct alternative. Hence to me the only possibility left is that instability in all these countries seems to be somehow wanted by all the power players.

Most of the posters here recognize that Singer's arguments are bizarre. Most recognize that a vital problem is to get the Israelis back inside their own borders. I think the American people are moving in the right direction even though our politicians are still in the pocket of AIPAC. Here is my question, though, for WAPO: Would you print a similarly bizarre article arguing that we should bomb the Israeli settlements in the West Bank as a means of helping Pakistan? I didn't think so.

Mr Singer is a clear sample of the growing extremism which we could call SIONIST-FASCIST ideology. By drawing totally arbitrary connections of totally unrelated events, he is inviting USA to make one more historical blunt just like the one we are now witnessing in Irak. Proponents of this stupid position are not many but they are backed up by fat wallets we all know whom from.

This article clearly emphasizes the ignorance of the author. The author doesn't seem to have a clue about the events and history of South Asia. If I remember correct it is concluded fact that Iran doesn't get along with Taleban and AlQueda. And the author suggests that Iran is backing AlQueda and Taleban. I think the saying "Ignorance is bliss" suits the author very much.

Nice try, Saul. Apparently you figure Americans are not very quick on the uptake, and can be easily used as a blunt instrument to further Jewish extremist aims. To help Pakistan, fight Iran. To help Israel achieve and maintain regional hegemony, fight Iran. To get those pesky stains out of your shirt collars, fight Iran. You're a one-man, one-chord band.

What remains astounding is the continued loyalty to Israel by a hardcore sector of American Zionists in the face of such blatant and calculating manipulation.