U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s administration will offer Israel a ‘nuclear umbrella’ against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administration, said the U.S. will declare that an attack on Israel by Tehran would result in a devastating U.S. nuclear response against Iran. As further unnamed Bush-administration and Israeli sources quoted in this story observed, such a strategy would be catastrophically stupid. First, it would not protect Israel because America would only attack Iran after a nuclear strike on Israel. Second, the idea that Iran would be deterred by such a threat, given the apocalypticist...
Thursday, 11th December 2008
A crack in the facade?
6:30pm
The well-regarded Ha’aretz correspondent Aluf Benn has made a troubling claim about the new American administration's strategy towards the Iranian threat to Israel. Benn writes:
Thursday, 11 December 2008
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