Due credit to The Independent for today’s leader recognizing that Iran’s nuclear ambitions pose an existential threat to Israel:
But as the war chariot rumbles slowly and purposefully on its way, it is as well that we at least recall the facts of the Iran imbroglio. One is that Israel does have reason to fear the government in Tehran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does want to see Israel wiped off the map and does intend to be the Iranian president who presides over the acquisition of nuclear weapons, breaking Israel’s regional monopoly.
The Iranian leader is not going to let go of his anti-Israel obsession, either. Never the favoured candidate of Iran’s clerical establishment, he has silenced his clerical critics with rabble-rousing talk about Jews, conveniently diverting his working-class electors from his failure to do much to ameliorate their poverty.
He is also not about to throw in the towel over nuclear weapons.
The Daily Telegraph also realizes that international dithering could force Israel to take unilateral action. If nothing else, at least yesterday’s flawed Sunday Times report served as a wake up call.
