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Israel's Defense Minister Calls Iranian Nuclear Threat "A Sword on Israel's Neck"
(New York Times) Jodi Rudoren - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday called the Iranian nuclear threat "a sword on the neck" of the Jewish state. "You don't wait until they acquire the capability and they build it and they deploy it - then it's too late, you cannot act." "The Iranians are patient. They say to themselves, 'We waited 4,000 years until we have nuclear power, we can wait another four weeks or four months or four quarters. You cannot sleep quietly when the Iranians are going to the point that after that Israel will not be able to do anything....Israel doesn't have an option, and I repeat does not have an option, to ignore this challenge."