’Stunned’ by US no, Israel backing down from bellicose Iran-war threats

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  • ’Stunned’ by US no, Israel backing down from bellicose Iran-war threats
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    On Aug. 30, speaking to journalists in London, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the United States armed forces, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said of Israel’s threat to attempt a military strike at Iran’s nuclear program: "I don’t want to be complicit if they [Israel] choose to do it," the London Guardian reported.[1] — A week earlier, “the former American ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, termed Israel’s talk of attacking Iran ’a classic case of crying wolf,’” the Times of Israel reported on Aug. 30.[2] — On Tuesday, Reuters reported that “Stunned by a rebuke from the United States’ top general, Israel is preparing a climbdown strategy in its war of words over Iran’s nuclear program, aware that its room for maneuver is shrinking rapidly.”[3] — Crispian Balmer’s article ended with these words: "’All this talk of war is bullshit. If they could do it, then they would have already done it long ago,’ a senior European diplomat in Israel said."...