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The Chicken Little crowd also pointed to the fact that the US and Israel planned joint missile-interception exercises this month as evidence of an imminent attack on Iran. (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 11) But they may have been reading the maneuvers, dubbed "Juniper Cobra," exactly backwards. A glimpse at the page on Juniper Cobra on the generally reliable Global Security site indicates that the first such exercises were held in February 2001. The less consistently reliable Israeli site DEBKAfile informs us that that the maneuvers have been held every two years since then—and have been actually been postponed for the first time this year. Announcement of the postponement came three days after Turkey called off its sixth annual international air maneuver when the US and Italy pulled out in protest of Ankara's exclusion of the Israeli air force. DEBKA writes: "It was not immediately clear whether the highly exceptional week's postponement of the exercise on the very day it was to begin was a joint US-Israeli decision or one made by Israel for political or perhaps technical reasons."

Roger Cohen writes in an Oct. 15 New York Times op-ed, "An Ordinary Israel":

I think President Obama, himself talking down American exceptionalism, is trying to nudge Israel toward a more prosaic, realistic self-image.

Hence the U.S. abstention last month at a U.N. nuclear assembly vote calling on all states in the Middle East to "accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear weapons" (N.P.T.) and create a nuclear-weapon-free Middle East — an idea Obama administration officials have supported in line with a nuclear disarmament agenda.

A shift is perceptible in the decades-old tacit American endorsement of Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal. This is logical. To deal effectively with the nuclear program of Iran, an N.P.T. member, while ignoring the nuclear status of non-N.P.T. Israel is to invite accusations of double standards. President Obama doesn’t like them.

How is abstaining from the vote indicative of this supposed "shift"? You mean instead of voting against it? Gee, thanks...

From AlJazeera, Oct. 22:

The United States and Israel have begun more than two weeks of tests to simulate missile attacks on the only country in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons.

According to the Yediot Aharonot newspaper on Wednesday, the Juniper Cobra drills will simulate the firing of long-range missiles against Israel and will include a live missile interception.

The 16-day defence drill involves 2,000 troops from the US European Command and the Israeli army. It will put the Israeli Arrow missile defence system and three US systems through their paces.

Testing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence, the ship-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence System and Patriot anti-aircraft systems has required Washington to dispatch 17 warships to the region.

Monitoring from the Negev desert, the US-made Forward Based X-band Tactical radar - capable of detecting long-range missiles - will track the Arrow missile system while transmitting data to a US joint tactical ground station.

i am agree with Israel is planning military attacks on Iran after December