Israel will fall in 20 years?

[myrrh]

So predicts the CIA...

[bryantm3]

got a better source than a newspaper funded by the iranian government?

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by myrrh

So predicts the CIA...

If there is any justice. . sooner!

[Sean]

This is quite the dubious article. An Iranian government owned publication that quotes a supposedly incendiary, secret CIA report which has only been seen by "some members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee", and that cites the analytical views of a pro-Palestinian reporter who can't seem to be any more articulate than saying things like "there is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports"?

I have a hard time taking this article very seriously.

Originally Posted by bas_I_am

If there is any justice. . sooner!

This is just a debate that will never, ever, ever end I guess.

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by Sean

This is just a debate that will never, ever, ever end I guess.

agreed. which is why I kind of find it just noise. The barebones facts are that jewish israelis are a dramatic minority in their own country, let alone the entire middle east, and they have a strong majority of the power in the region. This is just textbook ingredients to instability, one that must reach a comfortable steady state eventually. Where opinion comes in is exactly how that steady state will be achieved. I really doubt its going to be by a massive exodus of jewish israelis out of the region. Nuclear atrocity, maybe.

but hopefully it will just resolve itself by peaceful rebalancing of power.

[Deckard]

I predict nuclear atrocity rather than peaceful resolution, I really do, whether it's Iran, Israel, or both. Or possibly a bit further up, Pakistan (unless we can find one of our own sons-of-bitches to discreetly install). I don't think I've ever felt this pessimistic about the chances of a peaceful resolution in the region as I do now.

No idea about the veracity of this report, but I'm inclined to take it with a huge tablespoon piled high with salt.

I'd never heard of PressTV before. Wikipedia tells me (so this must be true) that its foreign-based correspondents include the likes of Yvonne Ridley, George Galloway, Andrew Gilligan, Tariq Ramadan, Nick Ferrari, James Whale.

Sooo... yes. A motley crew if ever I saw one.

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Originally Posted by Deckard

I'd never heard of PressTV before. Wikipedia tells me (so this must be true) that its foreign-based correspondents include the likes of Yvonne Ridley, George Galloway, Andrew Gilligan, Tariq Ramadan, Nick Ferrari, James Whale.

Sooo... yes. A motley crew if ever I saw one.

they should've called it GobshiteTV!