After Failing to Preempt: Israel, Iran and Nuclear War

by Louis René Beres (May 2015)

Back in January 2003, the Project Daniel Group advised prime minister Ariel Sharon on the issue of Iranian nuclearization. In its then-confidential final report to Sharon, titled “Israel’s Strategic Future,” the group underscored a significant core conclusion: allowing Iran to become a nuclear power can never be construed as an acceptable option. To further support this position legally, as well as strategically, the group referenced a very basic or “peremptory” national right under international law. This prerogative, we counseled, is known formally as “anticipatory self-defense.”  more>>>

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  1. Oh Louis, don’t you get tired of avoiding the obvious? Israel is in permanent trouble because its elites are always responding to domestic political considerations, and damn the long-term consequences.

    The Jews of Israel should have expelled the Muslims after ’73, when they certainly could have. But no, that would have weakened the Left. The Jews have actively kept their land a sliver, rather than using their victories in defensive wars to enlarge the Jewish state. Repeatedly the same elites–and families, sometimes–do the same things. Popular control is minimal because of the list-based legislature, so the mass is effectively neutered.

    How about you focus on the domestic causes of Israel’s dysfunctions?

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