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Brian Henry's avatar

I'd like to add that I'm not wedded to my position. Attacking Iran's nuclear sites would be a very high risk venture. Likely, Iran would respond with a full-scale missile and drone attack from both Iran and Lebanon. It would be a serious war likely with high casualties in Israel, Iran and Lebanon.

But if Iran gets a nuclear bomb, Israel's strategic position instantly becomes much worse. Best case scenario would then be that Iran becomes much, much more aggressive, with the potential cost of retaliating against Iran being a nuclear war.

Worst case scenario of course is a nuclear strike against Israel. Can we assume they're not crazy enough to do this? I don't think so.

We know Iran is at most 2 weeks from enriching enough uranium for a few bombs. Most likely we won't know when Iran decides to make that final sprint. One day, Iran will just announce it's a done deal. And I'm afraid we have to assume they already have the bombs made; it's just a question of creating the fuel.

Certainly, it would be great if Israel could finish with Hamas, take a year or two off, then take care of Hezbollah, take another break and finally deal with the nuclear threat from Iran.

But Israel doesn't have that luxury. If they don't act against the Iranian nuclear threat now, I think it means they've decided they have to let Iran go nuclear and deal with an Iran armed with nuclear weapons as best they can.

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Adina Horwich's avatar

As one whose deep sleep was rudely disturbed, at 1:45 a.m., who ran dazed, down two flights of stairs to my building's shelter, then dragged through Sunday as a result, and whose family members around Israel experienced same, while I agree with both David and Brian, a definite preference goes to Brian's opinion. It's now a Now or Never issue. We've been 'dreying' (tippy toeing and pussy footing around) around for six months. This has only brought us from bad to worse. If we don't act actively now, it is no use toting around empty threats. Action speaks louder (and volumes) than words. Just as demanding the hostages' release 'Achshav, achshav, acshav', so should we do something. The time really IS NOW!

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