[dr_who_2]

By threatening Israel, I think they were trying to do what Saddam tried in '91: change the subject. Didn't work then, won't help matters for the current Iranian regime now (although it won't necessarily hurt it either, given U.S. reluctance to take on these cavemen).

[NY Attitude]

The current Iranian regime is full of terrorists and to placate them is counterproductive to the survival of Israel and maybe the ME. Should a nuclear war were to break out the entire ME would be effected. If Israel were to do a preemptive strike, it would do so in the near future as from what I have surmised in reading various journal and such, Iran does not yet have the nuclear weapons it so desires.