Israel may strike against Iran soon

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Thursday, Aug. 16, the Netanyahu government was in action again. Israel would be willing to
strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, even if doing so only delayed its ability to produce nuclear
weapons for a few years, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said in a widelyreported
statement at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington.

“One, two, three, four years are a long time in the Middle East --
look what’s happened in the last year.” He went on to say, “In our
neighborhood, those are the rules of the game.”
“Diplomacy hasn’t succeeded,” Ambassador Oren said. “We’ve
come to a very critical juncture where important decisions do have
to be made.”
Israeli leaders’ insistence that diplomacy and sanctions have failed
utterly to deflect Iran in the slightest degree from its advance on a
nuclear bomb has miffed President Barack Obama more than
anything.
America and Israel have stopped talking to each other about Iran; they are talking, or rather
shouting, at each other across a great distance. Intent on putting a stop to the cacophony,
President Barak Obama has invited the Israeli prime minister to meet him at the UN General
Assembly session opening in New York Sept. 18.