Israel's war with Iran in 2008????

Will the US be involved also?

Israel's Major Wars Since Independence

F-16I with three extra under wing hard points for ordinances or other slung weapons

War with Iran???

If you have ever prayed for Israel, now is the time. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may those who love you be secure.” Psalm 122:6

A prominent political observer is predicting that Israel is likely to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before President Bush leaves office.

"The threat of another military confrontation hangs like a dark cloud over the Middle East," declared Joschka Fischer, who was Germany's foreign minister and vice chancellor from 1998 to 2005.

Writing in the Beirut-based English-language newspaper The Daily Star, Fischer notes that a nuclear-armed Iran would be "Israel's worst security nightmare," and the Jewish state takes Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to annihilate Israel very seriously.

He points to several factors that indicate Israel could be readying a strike on Iran:

When President Bush recently visited Israel as the country celebrated its 60th birthday, it was expected that Palestinian-Israeli relations would be the chief topic discussed. Instead, it was Iran.

It has been speculated that during his visit, Bush gave Israel the green light for an attack on Iran.

Political pressure is mounting in Israel for action to halt the Iranian threat.

The outgoing commander of the Israeli Air Force has said that the air force is capable of any mission, no matter how difficult, to protect Israel's security.

With the Bush presidency approaching its end and uncertainty about his successor's policy toward Israel and Iran, the "window of opportunity" for an Israeli attack is potentially closing, and that window "is now, during the last months of Bush's presidency."

Fischer observes: "Although it is acknowledged in Israel that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would involve grave and hard-to-assess risks, the choice between acceptance of an Iranian bomb and an attempt at its military destruction, with all the attendant consequences, is clear. Israel won't stand by and wait for matters to take their course."

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and senior adviser to three presidents, said after talks with Israeli officials that the Jewish state would launch an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities on its own if the rest of the world does not take action.

Fischer concluded: "Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin."

Iran expert, Kenneth R. Timmerman, and author" 6 Days of Hell:

the Coming War with Iran," which lays out the scenario likely to unfold if the U.S. And Iran go to war.

In Timmerman's report you'll find out why "Six Days to War" could happen sooner than you think — as many American assets are already "in position" for an attack.

Timmerman also details the deadliness and unintended consequences of a U.S. Attack against an increasingly militant Iran.

That attack could come sooner than you think.

As the Bush administration ratchets up the pressure, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs says the military option is still on the table and warns Iran that the U.S. Can launch massive strikes using Navy and Air power.

The new American commander in the region, Gen. David Petraeus, has also told Congress that Iran is supporting Iraqi insurgents, killing Americans. President Bush said in a White House address that Iran, along with al-Qaida, are "two of the greatest threats to America."

Timmerman's report on the looming war with Iran is based on sources including top Israeli intelligence officers, military and political leaders interviewed in Israel and Washington, D.C., and a key planning document, developed by the Iranian navy.

Timmerman is the bestselling author of "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran. His "Six Days to War" offers a scenario that represents one likely course, a conflict with Iran might take, and explores:

Iran's arsenal, including ballistic missiles, Silkworm anti-ship missiles — and chemical weapons facilities.

The first target of a U.S. Strike

How Iran would launch its counterattack

America's military plan, Operation Clean Slate

Hezbollah's response to the war's outbreak — a rain of missiles on Israel

America's secret war power and technology

The "nightmare scenario" — what if Iran already has nuclear weapons?

How the U.S. Would use its huge air superiority

Retired Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney's "Big George" scenario to disarm Iran

The war's shocking effect on oil supplies — and oil prices

The repercussions in Iraq

How American strikes could cripple the Iranian navy

The U.S. Commando raids that target Iran's missiles

U.S. Bunker busters' devastating effect on Iranian nuclear sites

The scenario's surprising end to hostilities

And much more.

The middle east is, no doubt, a powder keg. I believe there will be a war involving Iran and Israel before Bush leaves office (7 months). This war could also involve the U.S.

As I have said many times before, I do not believe the U.S. is blessed as it is, because we call ourselves a Christian nation but because we bless Israel. Remember, God told Abraham that, “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee all families of the earth shall be blessed. Genesis 12:3

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and pray that the U.S. will always bless the State of Israel.

Frank L Duncan

6/02/2008

F-16I with the exterior conformal fuel tanks

Israel 's F-16I

If the Iranian nuclear facilities are ever taken out, it will be the Israelis who do it, and this is the plane they will use. Remember, they took out the one in Iraq

Have never seen this fuselage aux tank version of the F-16i. Pretty neat. By the way, the statement below confirms what I've always believed..... we won't have to worry about taking out Iran 's nuclear capability, Israel will do it long before we will. They can't afford not to!

Looks like they are going to need these. Read a little about a F-16i (Sufa) It is Israel 's choice of aircraft to take out the Iranian atomic weapons factory. They have conformal fuel tanks that frees up three under wing hard points for ordinance or other slung supplies. You'll see the beauty of the design when you see a photo of the aircraft with the exterior conformal fuel tanks. We are already delivering two of them per month to Israel . They do not have to wait until they have them all to strike. Look, check out this website. It is owned by Israel and it does have a good illustrations of the F-16i toward the bottom.

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/aircraft/f-16i/F-16I.html ( Click on red for more F-16Is )

F-16I cockpit with many advanced avionics

Israel Wars & Maps

|The Big Picture| (Click)

There's not a day that Israel is not at war. Arab rockets land on Israeli soil most evey day. Suicide bombers blow themselves and innocent victims up to often to count. The major war are listed below:

1948 War of Independence

1956 Sinai Campaign

1967 Six-Day War

From War to War

1973 Yom Kippur War

1982 Operation Peace for Galilee

1982 "Operation Opera" Destruction of Iraq's Nuclear Facility

1991 The Gulf War

2006 The Second Lebanon War

2007 Israel Stricks Syrian Nuclear Facility

Israel's War of Independence (1947 - 1949)

In human terms, the War of Independence was Israel's costliest war, with over 6,000 Israelis were killed and 15,000 wounded. It was one of the few instances when Israel faced almost equal forces: 35-45,000 Israeli soldiers faced 42-54,000 in the combined Arab armies. The war consisted of 39 separate operations, fought from the borders of Lebanon to the Sinai Peninsula and Eilat.

The Sinai Campaign (Operation Kadesh - (1956)

The Sinai Campaign was fought to put an end to to the terrorist incursions into Israel and to remove the Egyptian blockade of Eilat.

The Six-Day War (June 1967)

Within the brief span of six days, the IDF overran the Sinai peninsula; took the entire West Bank of the River Jordan; and captured a great part of the Golan Heights. The culminating event was the capture of the Old City of Jerusalem.

The War of Attrition (1968-70)

Following the Six-Day War, a static exchange of artillery fire along the entire Bar Lev line on the Suez Canal, escalated into the War of Attrition.

The Yom Kippur War (October 1973)

The war, which started on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, was the fiercest Arab-Israeli war since the 1948 War of Independence. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, catching Israel off guard.

The Lebanon War: Operation Peace for Galilee (1982)

Operation Opera destroying Iraqi Nuclear Facility (1982)

A ceasefire with Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon declared in July 1981 was broken: the terrorists continued to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in Israel and abroad, and the threat to the northern settlements became unbearable. On June 6, 1982, the IDF launched Operation Peace for the Galilee. In June of 1982, Israel bombed the Nuclear Facility in Iraq in "Operation Opera."

The Gulf War (1991)

In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and threatened to attack Israel with various types of weapons, including non-conventional ordnances. For the first time in Israel's history, the entire country faced a real threat of destruction.

The Second Lebanon War (2006)

On July 12, 2006 eight IDF soldiers were killed and two kidnapped on the border with Lebanon, in an attack by the Hizbullah terror organization.

Israel Stricks Syrian Nuclear Facility. (2007)

In September of 2007 Israel bombed a Syrian Nuclear Facility which is thought to have been fuelled by North Korean Plutonium.