Bibi Threatens To Bomb Iran

By Marc Ambinder

In an interview with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, the new Israeli Prime Minister challenges Barack Obama to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons - an event Israeli intelligence believes is imminent. If Obama fails, Israel might attack. Within months. Not a big policy change here, but the apocalyptic tone of Netanyahu's rhetoric, on the eve of the G20, suggests to me that the new Israeli government wants to rattle the cage a bit.

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