Is Israel seriously considering an attack on Iran to prevent it from becoming a nuclear power?
There are four different ways to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The first is a political approach; hoping that the rioting will lead to regime change. The protestors were definitely hurt by the fact that they didn’t get any support from Washington – support they would have had under any other administration, Democratic or Republican. And yet the rioting goes on; sometimes it takes time. It took a year and a half to have a revolution last time. So, it may work in the long run. Then there’s the diplomatic approach, which I don’t think anyone in Israel thought would work. But Obama tried to reach out. He failed, but each approach has to be exhausted completely before you can move on to the next one. Even though it was open-ended to begin with and he told Netanyahu there would be no deadline to it, Netanyahu persuaded him to set a deadline. Obama said there would be a reassessment at the end of the year if the diplomatic approach had not worked, and it didn’t. Now, sanctions h
