Roger Cohen trivializes Israeli fears of a nuclear Iran, Walt Rodgers attributes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's atomic ambitions as bombast, and The Economist suggests that Israel's "Iran first" approach is a diversion tactic to avoid negotiating with the Palestinians.
But Time magazine's Joe Klein goes even further:
But it seems clear that the Netanyahu government's wild overstatement of the Iranian threat, and its linkage to progress on the Palestinian issue, is a subterfuge to allow the continued illegal Israeli settlement of Palestinian areas on the West Bank, which will ultimately subvert a two-state solution.
For comparison, I was impressed with this reserved, respectfully written Baltimore Sun staff-ed.
Benjamin Netanyahu is supposed to visit Washington in June. I can already picture the White House press corps greeting him with torches and pitchforks.
