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Israel to U.S.: Show Us that You'll Really Stop Iran, or We May Have To
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, head of IDF Military Intelligence from 2006 to 2010, is today executive director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. Yadlin, one of the pilots who bombed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981, said in an interview Wednesday: "What the prime minister and the defense minister say...is that all the strategies being employed against Iran have either failed or are not working. The diplomatic negotiations that took place in Istanbul, Baghdad and Moscow produced nothing." "Therefore if you're not prepared to live with an Iran with a nuclear bomb, you are left with only one option and that's the option of military intervention....The Israelis cannot ask the Americans to do the job for them. No American soldier has ever fought for Israel since the state was established. That's a basic principle for us." "But the Americans can say, look, this isn't something we're doing for you. We're doing it for ourselves. And we have more time....Our air force has a great many capabilities that yours doesn't. B-1 bombers, B-2 bombers, bunker busters that are much heavier than yours, Stealth bombers. Therefore, we can do it after you think that you can't." "The American threat has to be a great deal more credible. It cannot be that the secretary of defense will stand up publicly and say that an attack on Iran will plunge the world into World War III or the Middle East will go up in flames. That shows that you don't really mean to do it."