BREAKING! Iran "Only Months Away" From Atomic Bomb

Only days after Russia's $1 billion arms and missile sale to Iran was announced, Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post are reporting that the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that Iran is no more than a "few months" away from having a nuclear bomb.

Understand this well. Russia's missiles will be used to try shoot down Israeli, US, and Allied bombers sent to bomb Iran's (Russian-supplied) nukes out of existence.

The best way to have stopped Iran from gaining nuclear status would have been to stop Russia from supplying Iran with the technology in the first place, and the way to do that was by promoting real democracy in Russia. As regular readers of this blog know, one group has consistently sided with Putin against democracy, has served as a cover for Putin's crackdown on pro-democracy forces,  and has acted as his overseas shill – Chabad and its "chief rabbi" of Russia, Berel Lazar. Chabad scratches Putin's back and in return gets control over Jewish life – and control of Jewish communal assets – throughout the FSU. Chabad is a menace to freedom and a menace to Jews and it must be stopped.

Comments

[Herman Douchebag]

This is a real story much more important that the kvetching all sides have engaged in regarding Chabad good or bad-Surely even our friends in Satmar must agree that something needs to be done.

[rebtsvi]

Yep, it's Chabad's fault Iran is getting nukes.

Damm those guys in 770!

[Davidi]

I think we should attack 770 first, so that it won't continue from there! Are you out of your mind?! I havben't read anything more ludicrous than this accustaion from you in quite a while sir. You get more creative by the day.

[Brian Kresge]

I dunno...if Chabad cozies up to a government that unapologetically sells big nasty weapons to avowed enemies of Israel, it certainly doesn't seem like they have the body of Israel's best interests at heart. Combine Russian missile technology, a President of Iran who believes some 13th century Shi'a imam is coming out of a well (an imam in concealment? Maybe he's seen the Rebbe?) one of these days and who also recently spoke of wiping Israel off the map...who's interests is Chabad serving by befriending Putin, if not their own?

Even if it's nothing more sinister than greed for unclaimed (or claimed) FSU Jewish assets, one could argue successfully, as Shymara often does, that Chabad is not acting responsibly in the FSU.

I'd love to read a response that's something other than attack on Shymara. Someone should convincingly demonstrate the positive mission of Chabad in FSU, because I'm not seeing anything positive for non-Chabad FSU Diaspora in any of this.

[Shmary]

Take folks like Shmarya (Scot) who are just as anti-Jewish, anti-rligious and anti-zionist as it gets, worse yet than even the guru of iran, for he only declares te annihilation of the corporeal bodies of the Jews while this blogger is on a rampage against the very essence of Judaism. Chabad's mission is not politicla, but rather to have proper rletaions with the government in roder to guarantee the continuity of Jeewish survival in the former USSR. Fighting and antgonizing

[Neo-Conservaguy]

An important question is: will Iran be a few months away from producing enough fissionable material for the core of a nuclear weapon, or from producing an actual weapon. There is large difference between these two situations, because you need a proper design for a small package deliverable by missile and the equipment to machine the core material, although it could be minimized if another country has given/sold them the design and production equipment to make the weapon.

[Brian Kresge]

That's some hubris, there, to call Chabad the very essence of Judaism, unless hypocrisy is the essence of Judaism, which we all know it's not.

From the mainstream press, it looks like Chabad, in the form of Lazar, has worked harder to ensure "proper" relations with President Putin at the expense of existing FSU Jewish communities. I'm quite sure there are many existing communities in Ukraine, Russia and other FSU states that would take umbrage at the idea that Chabad has their communities' continuity in mind. I also think of the silence of the "Chief Rabbi" when the opposition waxed anti-Semitic.

So again, I ask, what is Chabad's real mission in the FSU?

For my part, like many others, I like my coporeal form. I'm sure Israelis do, too. If the continuity of Jewish survival in FSU is important, than how much more important it should be in Israel. Surely a "proper" relationship would be open enough that the "Chief Rabbi" could ask President Putin some tough questions about arms sales.

[Jath]

Mr Kresge ,
Ashrei Hamaamin !
the long arm of reb berale lozor ?
promoting pravoslav culture beyond russia ?

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