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"Israel Maintains Option To Strike Iran Nukes"

And why not?

We have (or should have) learned that you can't deal with terrorist. You can deal with Communists (MAAD, etc.) but you can't negotiate with a person or a group of people so fanatical that they would be eager to die while trying to kill you.

So, if the Iran develope nukes, then it is pretty much assured that Israel won't be able to negotiate a nonaggression treaty. Especially, if Iran give the weapons to their favorite terrorists.

So what alternatives do they have? Pretty much none (IMHO).

I think that Israel feels the same way.

They felt that way in '81. They admitted it. And they said "We're not gonna apologize either".

Israel got castigated in the UN and across the world - but you know what? Secretly, a lot of these countries were happy that the Israelis did what they did. It let them off the hook.