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I’ve written this before on these here pages: Israel in cahoots with the Americans is going to bomb Iran before the 4 November US elections. How do I know, especially after sitting on a sailing boat for six weeks? That’s an easy one. Over the years I’ve made some pretty good contacts in Washington, and there is such a thing called email, a hard nut I have managed to crack going on ten years. Here’s how the Taki scenario goes: (with a little help from a Washington-based Belgian count).
Russia has now shown America to have a loud voice but to carry a small stick. The Americans and the neocons feel humiliated (like that other great warrior David Cameron). Russia is selling Iran anti-aircraft systems to defend nuclear installations against an Israeli attack. Dubai is the new Hong Kong, a major port where goods arrive from all over the world for the planet’s most modern city. Some 300,000 Iranians, mostly businessmen, live in Dubai, where shuttle services run to Iran 100 miles away. There are $300,000 million worth of construction projects now underway in Dubai, a place swimming in riches. The ruling Maktoum dynasty wants to stay on the good side of the mullahs in Tehran, and the last thing the Maktoums want is an Iranian retaliatory strike on their real estate against American targets. Which they will get once Tel Aviv unleashes its air force against Iran.
When does the clock run out? It all has to do with the US elections. If McCain is shown to be leading in October, Israel might hold its fire. McCain, a decent man, is under the tutelage of Senator Joe Lieberman, also a decent person but an Israel firster. But if Obama’s ratings take off, which I believe they will, fuggeraboutit. Although Obama has gone down on his knees in front of the Israeli lobby and sworn allegiance to that ‘s****y little country’, as a French ambassador once described Israel in the house of our ex-proprietor Lord Black (both our ex-proprietor and the ambassador have since been demoted, the former is — however unfairly and unjustly — in prison, and the Frenchman is giving cocktail parties in Algiers or somewhere as depressing), he is not trusted by the neocons nor by Jewish American leaders. I suppose because Obama was against the disastrous Iraqi adventure, he is seen as weak by neocon bums, whose idea of hell on earth is sending anyone of their immediate family to serve in the army.
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David Short
August 28th, 2008 12:07pmIs it just me, or does this article make no sense at all?
Colonial
August 29th, 2008 11:06amThe prognosis is reasonably feasible, except possibly that there would need to be a nasty event that got a bit of panic going in the West before Israel was let loose.
I have no doubt that in the longer term there will be something like a WW3 in the area. The Arabs want Israel gone and will never stop trying to achieve this. They will make slow gains until a point where Israel feels they could be terminally damaged. And then its war to the finish.
That, massive Arab wealth, most of the worlds fast diminishing supply of oil, a weakening USA, a chippy Russia, Chinese oil need and rising Muslim fundamentalism is a toxic brew that surely has to, at some point, erupt.
James Richardson
August 30th, 2008 1:50amMore time above decks, old boy. Try to get some exercise and if that doesn't shake the cabin fever, then head for the nearest port and get your feet back on dry land.
Gil
August 30th, 2008 8:53amThis 'article' is an utter joke. I mean: 'A Washington based Belgian Count'.
You can relax Taki. There will be no WW3 as a result of Israeli actions.
But of course this 'article' was just another vehicle for Taki's well documented prejudices against a certain country and its people.
Colonial
September 1st, 2008 12:40pmAs far as I know God is spelt with an od and not an il. Gill should remember that he - or she - may have claims to being a prophet but that's where it stops.
And why shouldn't a Belgian be a count and, if he's bored with living on a small and soggy plain with dodgy weather, funny vegetables and odd neighbours, move to Washington?
Mel Victoria
September 1st, 2008 1:57pmWashington is awash with Israeli lobbyists alarmed that all their misinformation and tactical gains of the neo-con era are about to be lost. The tide has already turned with Condi daring to criticise the further expansion of the illegal settlelements. Taki is right to anticipate the desparate actions of a country that has antagonised its neighbours for 40 years
George Kronfli
September 2nd, 2008 6:10pmTaki you are spot on. The Zionists and their fifth columnists in the West have wreaked havoc and destroyed any influence that the USA and the UK had in the Arab countries. Russia and China will replace them, and everyone will be the loser.