Friday, July 16, 2004

Israeli strikes on Iran?

Jane's Intelligence Digest writes today that Israel may be planning strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.  At least in the non-subscriber extract, there is not much new; it has been thought for quite a while that Israel might attack the nuke facilities.  One sentence, though, is interesting: "An Israeli strike could effectively end hopes of reaching any kind of peace deal" between Israel and the Palestinians.  This way of thinking about the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven itself a complete failure.  Not allowing Israel to "win" has only encouraged Arab rejectionism and violence.  More likely, an Israeli strike on Iran's nuke facilities could promote a peace deal, especially if this would speed the overthrow of the Mullahs and stop Iran's support of Palestinian terrorist groups.

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