Tony Blair: West must be prepared to use force against Iran

Tony Blair: West must be prepared to use force against Iran - Haaretz.com, Jan. 22, 2011

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says what today's world leaders are too afraid to admit - that the West must be prepared to use force against Iran. As published by Ha'aretz, Blair "urged the West to be prepared to confront Iran with force in order to face the "looming and coming challenge" from the Islamic republic."

Blair continued, saying "[Iran] has to be confronted and changed. Iran is a looming challenge. It is negative and destabilizing. It supports terrorists," Blair, who currently serves as the Quartet envoy to the Middle East said at the Chilcot inquiry, the U.K. inquiry into the war in Iraq."

As yet another round of talks with Iran (predictably) stall and collapse in Istanbul, the West must ask itself: at what point will diplomacy be deemed to have failed? When will the line be drawn? When will Iran's leaders be held to account for their continued defiance of international law? These are grave questions that must be answered.

The United States recently deployed the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier into the Gulf off the coast of Iran, carrying over 6000 sailors and armed with 80 attack fighter jets. Certainly this is a sign that the U.S. is serious about its calls for Iran to come clean about its covert nuclear program, and Iran's likely ongoing production of nuclear weapons. But will U.S. defense planners match their words with action?

We may be about to find out.
- R.O.

Blessing Israel, come what may -- Published by The Jerusalem Post

My interview with Joel C. Rosenberg was published in the The Jerusalem Post early last month. Hope you enjoy it! Be sure to read the full-length interview located here on my blog.

"Blessing Israel, come what may" - Robert D. Onley - The Jeruslaem Post - Oct. 2, 2010
http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=189881

- R.O.

Israel's Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon in Q&A session with Joel C. Rosenberg - Part 2

Israel's Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon in Q&A session with Joel C. Rosenberg

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"Hamas supporters celebrate news of West Bank attack which killed four Israelis"

Today four Israeli citizens were gunned down in cold blood by Hamas terrorists. Upon hearing about this, "Hamas supporters in the Gaza Strip celebrated news of the West Bank attack." This line sums up the entire Israel-Palestine problem. To literally celebrate the death of fellow human beings - what a truly disturbing, twisted and condemnably brain-washed reality for Hamas' supporters. Read the story here.

Four Israelis shot down by terrorists in the West Bank. (JPost)

Israel is expected to make compromises during negotiations over the next year to finally achieve a peace agreement. How can Israel even negotiate with the "Palestinians" when one half of the Palestinian equation - Hamas - literally cheers the death of Israelis? Is this not explicitly indicative of Hamas' stated goal, which is not a Palestinian State, but rather the death of the Jewish State?

What an utterly despicable entity, Hamas, so virulently hate-filled and demonic so as to cheer the death of other human beings. Israel has every right to pursue these Hamas militants and bring them to swift, unrelenting justice.

Remember that Israel's goal is not the death of Palestinians. No Israeli government has ever advocated the death of anyone. Israel simply wants to exist. In the Middle East. In the land of their ancient forefathers. Where is the global outcry over Israeli blood spilled by Hamas? What hypocrisy.

Pictures from Juno Beach, Normandy, France

On June 6, 1944, over 14,000 young Canadian soldiers stormed ashore at Juno Beach, launching the D-Day invasion of France which would eventually liberate Europe from the tyranny, murder and occupation of Nazi Germany. In late May 2010, I had the opportunity to visit Juno Beach to write a feature piece for the Windsor Star on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. On this beach 369 Canadian soldiers lost their lives. These are some of the pictures I took that day.

Pictures from my visit to Juno Beach, May 2010
Accompanying article: "Enduring sacrifices at Juno Beach" by Robert D. Onley

Click here for an aerial view of Juno Beach showing photo locations.


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