Whether one would be for Netanyahu or Dagan, I also thought more people comment on this, but the thread turned out to be "quiet."
Oh well. They both know Israel better than I ever could; I’m just watching from afar.
There had been reports of Iranian submarines in the Mediterranean, though I don’t know how credible they are. That flotilla? I haven’t heard much more, but tensions would peak around then. There are a lot of conditionals in this equation, but Iranian influence is meant to be a growing factor there unless something changes, maybe not with this, but who knows when. There’s the flotilla reprise soon; there’s September’s UN vote; there’s what’s going on with Iranian ally Syria right now.
An Iranian I met in my travels, seemingly a vocal dissident from what he was saying, talked about how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s initials are used instead of his name in the Iranian press, last name’s initial first in the Persian way, because it comes out to ‘AM’ which is also the Persian word for ‘excrement’. I don’t know if the extent of dissidence to his rule that this reflects makes him more a loose cannon or restricts his movement. We’ll see, I guess. I expect the submarines Germany gave Israel could literally run rings around any Iranian ones anyway.