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A target too far
Editorial
The Guardian,
Friday September 26 2008
The report in today's Guardian that an Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear sites was vetoed by George Bush in a meeting with Ehud Olmert adds an important piece of information to the jigsaw of our knowledge about how close we have come to igniting a fresh firestorm in the Middle East.
Israel has been telling anyone who would listen for the past two years that Iran's nuclear programme posed an existential threat, and that the consequences of delaying a strike outweighed the peril to the region as a whole of Iran's retaliation. Israel has lost the argument, and we should all breathe a sigh of relief that the pragmatism of Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has prevailed - for now. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/26/iran.israelandthepalestinians
Friday, September 26, 2008
Bush refused to support Israeli plan to bomb Iran
US: ISRAEL GAVE serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites but was told by President George Bush that he would not support it and did not expect to revise that view for the rest of his presidency, senior European diplomatic sources have told the Guardian. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/0926/1222374595797.html
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