Claims Israel failed in Lebanon are premature - just as was similar condemnation 30 years ago,http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=688&WT.srch=1
Future historians will no doubt see things much more clearly, but some gross misperceptions are perfectly obvious even now.
Exposes in 'The Times' - a self-serving scenario by Anshel Pfeffer in The Jerusalem Post
For Israel to be the first country to use nuclear weapons, even limited ones, since Hiroshima and Nagasaki is almost unthinkable. Diplomatic repercussions aside, there is no guarantee that an untried and unproven
technology will work as planned. And even if the operation is carried off, Iran may have dispersed enough of its nuclear materials and installations to alternative sites that it would be able to resume the program quickly. That they would definitely do, with Israel's nuclear cat already out of the bag.
There are still valid arguments for Israel going ahead with a military operation against Iran, perhaps even a non-conventional one. But the current leadership, which is still reeling from the Lebanon war and which prefers Sderot to suffer a couple of Kassams a day to getting entangled in another bloody operation in Gaza, is hardly the leadership to take Israel into a daring operation so far away.
Instead the government would prefer to rely on the vague promises of US President George W. Bush that he won't leave office in two years with the Iranian threat still intact. But since the US cooperated with
the ineffectual watered-down Security Council sanctions resolution that was finally passed last month, Israeli fears have grown that the administration has lost the stomach for another front in the Middle East. Perhaps a few stories of the crazy Israelis' plans to go it themselves, and even use some of their own nukes in the process, might convince the Americans that it would be better if they did the job themselves. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467682486&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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