Barak: Israel's greatest threat isn't Iran
Themajlis / Themajlis
27-Jan-2010 (one comment)

Conventional wisdom in Israel, nicely summarized in a Jerusalem Post op-ed today entitled "Crying wolf on Iran,"
holds that Iran is the greatest threat -- an existential threat, even
-- to Israeli security. So Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak perhaps
raised a few eyebrows yesterday when he declared the stalled peace process a greater concern than Iran's nuclear program.

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by IranMilitaryForum.net on Wed Jan 27, 2010 08:20 PM PST

Like this comment at the link:

While they won't admit it publicly, a number of key Israelis have suggested that they are less worried about an Iranian nuclear attack than they are about the "fear factor" of Iran possessing a nuclear capability. This "fear factor" could encourage a problematically high rate of emigration from Israel. This demonstrates that the true existential threat is found at home, and not from the unlikely possibility of an Iranian nuclear attack. Israel recognizes the problem with the Palestinians; it's just a matter of how to go about solving the problem. Ehud Barak appears to simply be speaking candidly about the importance, in his view, of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli talk of Iran as an existential threat to the Israeli state is pure bluster.



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