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“We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again”.
“My good friends this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time.” 1938 Neville Chamberlain.
Months later Hitler’s troops had invaded Poland. Chamberlain and others had spent years negotiating with Hitler in order to prevent another war in Europe, two decades after the Great War in which an entire generation of young men had been wiped out. Negotiations with Hitler had included surrendering the sovereign rights of Czechoslovakia and standing by as Hitler’s troops took Austria. By 1939, Hitler desired war and any further attempts to negotiate peace were doomed to failure. The Nazis then staged a fake attack on a German radio outpost along the German-Polish border and used that as an excuse for invasion. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave this speech to the House of Commons on September 1, 1939
That was 70 years ago.
Today!
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Israeli officials have assured him that they are not planning a military strike on Iran. President Medvedev also confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret visit to Moscow this month that included a meeting with the Russian president.
In a transcript of the interview released by the Kremlin, Medvedev hedges on the question of whether Russia would support Iran if it were attacked by Israel.
Again history is set to repeat itself? So how long will Israel allow Iran to threaten it’s right to exist? When will Iran succeed in building a working Nuclear Weapon? Anyone else have any thoughts?
