Israel v. Hamas

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Israel and Hamas are getting into it again and it is escalating pretty fast after three days.  I hope that things will simmer down, but that will be unlikely.  

My issue is not what about is going between them, it is really about the background work that provoked this.  So now you probably have an idea as to why I posted this in  my Iran blog instead of my other blog. 

I believe that Iran has something to do with this sudden attack by Hamas.  I think that Iran is funding Hamas and supplying them, we all know that Iranian leaders have threatened to send Hezbollah to attack Israel, but I think that they are using Hamas.  They are using Hamas to distract Israel from its plans to attack Iran and to keep Israel busy for a bit.  Also Hamas picked a ripe time to attack, during Israel's election and Palestine trying to get recognized as a state in the United Nations.  I personally believe Iran is behind this, surprisingly they have not made many comments, I believe that they are up to something.  

I hope that leaders will and intelligence will make a connection because I think that Hamas made a deal with Iran to attack Israel. They would likely have received money and weapons.

Air Defense Drills

Iran is conducting war games to make sure that the quality of the airforce is good and introducing new domestic technology that will enable them to protect themselves against possible threats.  I do not know if we should be concerned, but I have a feeling that they know they will likely be attacked in the near future.  If Israel and Iran would just talk things out, I am pretty sure that war will not occur.  Also Iran will need to prove that they are not building nuclear weapons in order to feel secure.  I do believe that Iran having a nuclear weapons could be a problem because the leaders are the radicals that helped overthrow the Shah in 1979.  They were the ones that did not want society to modernize because they believe that Islam is not compatible with modernization.  I think the US and Israel do have the right to worry and the rest of the middle east is worried too.  

Iran is stepping on thin ice at the moment because they are going to have alliance issues.  China and Russia are not going to save their butts if Israel attacks and Syria is in a civil war. They do have a couple allies, but I do not think that is going to be enough for them to defeat two strong militaries. 

Iran Fired on U.S. Drone

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The Wall Street Journal has reported that Iran fired upon a U.S. Drone while it was in international waters.  I think Iran is testing the U.S. out to see if they would be willing to go to war if Israel is planning on it.  They are trying to test the theory of "Paper Tiger." "Paper Tiger" means that a country or a group of people claim that if something does happen to them that they will attack, but when they are attacked there is no action.  The leaders are testing out like Osama bin Laden did when he attacked the U.S..  He thought that the U.S. was going to send cruise misslies after September 11th because that is what Clinton did after we were attacked overseas and the U.S. did nothing when the U.S.S. Cole was attacked, but that is because they did not know that it was Al-Qaeda at the time.  

George Little claims that the the attack was not revealed to the public because the drone was doing classified work, but I do not think that is the truth.  I think the truth is that it was political, contrary to what Mr. Little says, because the election was only 5 days away.  They did not want to deviate from the election.  Iran clearly wants to test U.S. response and they might be trying to show that they are match to the U.S. if a war is going to occur.  

Who knows what is going to happen in the next year.  All I know is that Israel is likely going to attack, they will be doing the Middle East a favor because they are going to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state.  The countries in the Middle East some openly and some in secret do not want Iran to have nukes because the country is ran by extremists.   

Election Day

Election Day has arrived, Americans are going out to vote on who should be the next President, there is a chance that if either candidate wins that it will be by a big margin.  If Obama wins than he is probably going to work a little harder with the Republicans and if Romney wins he knows that he is going to have to work hard to get re-elected.  

Oh yeah if some of you are curious as to why I am posting this in my Iranian blog it is because this election is going to be important to the leaders of Iran.  I bet that they have some of their underlyings watching the election for them because this will determine how we are going to respond to Iran.

Iran might want Obama to win because they might believe that he is not going to act militarily against Iran if Israel were to attack.  They probably do not want Romney to win because they know from the Bush Administrations and Reagan Administration that they are going to take a hardline against Iran if they do not comply and will likely defend Israel according to the treaty between the two if Israel is attacked.  However, Obama might just take a hardline as well, knowing that he did order troops to begin war games with Israel to make sure they are trained.

Iranian leadership has probably got some kind of stake on this election besides Americans.  

For my facebook friends I know I said I was going to stay off it, but this is the only time I will be posting and actually going on there.