Arguing for a prior downfall of the Assad regime before attacking Iran in order to reduce the risk of a Syrian front is a weak argument. If on the contrary an attack was launched against Iran, it would reduce the military & financial help Iran provides Syria & it would thus make the task of the Syrian rebels easier, The second argument that a delayed attack would allow Israel to build up better means to effectively destroy Iranian nuclear installations is only forgetting that in the same time the Iranians are also improving their defense, the protection of the installations, their dispersion not to speak of increasing their stock of enriched uranium in unknown locations. The next argument is hoping for an internal Iranian upheaval which would get rid of the regime of the Ayatollahs. This would be an awful bet to take with the survival of Israel. The US administration failed to support the demonstrators who were massacred after the previous fraudulent elections in Iran. The Iranian leaders have shown in Iran & in Syria that they would not recoil from any monstrosity in the pursuit their objectives. There has been no "Iranian Spring" in Iran & one would be foolish to wait for one in the foreseeable future. The lack of a consensus in the Israeli public is perhaps the result of a lack of independent & valid information on the pros & cons of an early attack on Iran. Whether or not a delay will result in less Israeli casualties on the home front is the main debate of those on the side of waiting but they have to demonstrate the crucial point that waiting is really preventing the Iranian fanatics from reaching their goal or making the unavoidable assault more costly at a later date.

he is more of a threat to the gene pool.

The author of this article discusses a rational country reaching for WMD status. That is not Iran. The author forgets that Iran's belief in the soon coming of their 12th imam is the driving force behind their drive for nuclear weapons and as such, their saviour can only arrive in the midst of apocalypse, in this case, nuclear apocalypse. Iran won't wait for anything. As soon as they can goad Israel and the world into mindless nuclear apocalypse and usher in their saviour to conquer the world for Islam they'll do it and the sooner, the better.

While predicting Middle East events is a dounting task, one could argue that in an Iran-Israel conflict Syria would not be one direct additional front to deal with. Iran & Syria leaders could not care less about the fate Lebanon would endure should they decide to prompt their Lebanese proxy to launch an attack on Israel. The two rogue countries have shown their little regard for life in their own countries & for them the Lebanese would be expandable & they might think it would reduce for them the risk of US intervention.

Other than a run-on sentence at the end, #31 has a very compelling and cogent response to Ron's somewhat contorted views on the Iranian nuclear issue. Possibly the defining moment in recent history.

but two terrorist leaders of the non-existant "palestine" can't even sit in the same room together. Have a nice glass of moose milk and return to your stupor, Benazzi.

Ron, has no idea what he is speaking about. Ron should write about those areas he has some expertise. Example men's hair dye, ladies lingerie.

A strike would punctuate Obama's foreign policy failure in addition to his economic failures. He's failed all the way around.

Share the land. Share the opportunity. Share the freedom. Let's face it, the 2-state solution is dead; it was never viable. The 1-state solution is the only sane alternative. I'm talking about consensual annexation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank and possibly the Gaza Strip into a Greater Israel. Here's the rub: the six million or so Arabs now living in those places would become full-fledged, fully enfranchised citizens of the expanded enterprise. The roadblocks and checkpoints would vanish...the separation wall could be torn down...the IDF could become fully integrated....Arab MK's would be actually included in the ruling coalitions. The peace dividend could be huge. If the Israel-Palestine issue could be resolved in this fair and democratic manner, much of the Arab and Islamic animosity towards Israel and the US would wither and eventually go away....in my humble opinion. The idea is not altogether new nor novel...why not give peace a chance?

Nothing changed really , we still have two clocks , one Iran clock ticking to make nuclear weapon capabilities which is moving steadily but with gaps on intelligence , the other clock is the ability of the west Isreal torove they can force Iran to change course , that clock moves in unreliable ways . On balance, it is better to maximize the economic, diplomatic pressure , intelligence work to kill intelligence operatives , scientists , and separatists movements , remember the Persians are only 45% of the populations and they reside primarily in the central part of the country with weaker presence in Mashahd and Asfahan .Support the Baliuchis , Kurds, Azerheris , Arabs ,,Turkmen ...and others. Iran is much weaker than most think , but of it masters nuclear weapon capability , then all hell break loose .

Leaving the country to go to California or elsewhere if an attack occurs, will not save you from the bad advise you are giving. I know that the info you think you're getting is good and that you thought process is also good, not so my friend. Trust G-d(start) and seek His advice, then give better advice.

If as you say Ron does not know what he is talking about perhaps then you will share with us some of your great specialised knowledge and expertise on the subject. Or are you just a case of an empty vessel make the ..........

I have been watching this websites comments ,feedback and analysis on the Iran/Israel pending conflict. We seem to be going through a protracted and prolonged pre-war preparation phase. Recently I watched with interest a BBC documentary on how a new 3D map of our Universe was formulated. Apparently the Big Bang is still a work in progress with the Universe expanding at an increasing velocity. Is there any hope that all the players involved in this current crisis could be brought together to view a Stanley Krubrick movie titled "Dr Strangelove" a.k.a "How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb "Many thanks

#42, thank you. Iran is in the process of building a nuclear weapon. Tel Aviv is the primary target for that weapon. Neither sanctions nor diplomacy will prevent the above. iran,will stop at nothing to eliminate Israel. WW2, 6 million Jews waited for the great powers to save them. They are still waiting. the United States policy visa vis Iran is the same as a nuclear North Korea. Containment! Israel has absolutely no choice but to attack iran. The longer Israel waits the worse the situation will become. Israel attack so that you and your children will live. Do not attack and you will surely die. Leftist policy result Tel Aviv a burning smoldering crater.

It may be immaterial, if the whole exercise on Iran's part is just to ensure provocation. But if the need is actually to prevent development of a nuclear weapon, then preventing use of the facilities, rather than destroying them, buys time aplenty. Disruption of convenient access to the facilities--eliminating the means to transport the workforce in and out of there would seem to be sufficient--would mean that Iran can continue to make their case diplomatically for the right to use the facilities, but cannot continue to make use of the facilities, until then.