The Military Option Is Now on the Table -Herb KeinonThe urgent manner in which Olmert dropped everything and jetted off to Moscow for a three-hour meeting with Putin, indicates that Israel has changed phases. It has gone from treating the Iranian problem as an international one, that the world has to deal with, to taking steps indicating that it sees it increasingly as an Israeli problem, that might necessitate an Israeli solution.
Nobody is tiptoeing around the possibility of military action against Iran any more. French Foreign Minister Kouchner raised the possibility of war a few weeks ago. Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown didn't rule anything out in comments he made, and President Bush said Wednesday a nuclear Iran could trigger World War III.
(Jerusalem Post)
From Israel, It Looks Different -Aluf Benn
The chances of an American attack appear small. Israel, it seems, is waiting for Bush's decision, which will be taken during the coming year, before it decides to attack Iran itself.
From Jerusalem, the Iranian threat looks much more palpable and scarier and the response much simpler and more focused.
Presumably, Iran, like Iraq and Syria in their turn, will find it hard to respond. Perhaps it will launch some missiles at Israel plus Hizbullah rockets from Lebanon, and perhaps it will initiate a terror attack on an Israeli target abroad. This would be painful but bearable and would be perceived as a justified price for getting rid of an existential threat.
In its refusal of sanctions and serious organization against Iran, the world is quietly pushing Israel toward a decision to attack.
(Ha'aretz)
1 comment:
It is hard to refute this. The world is certainly not unified enough and tough enough to prevent a Nuclear Iran, and unless things change, Israel cannot chance a nuclear Iran. Iran has made it so by making clear its intentions.
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