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Iran Is No Existential Threat to Israel, Says Ex-Mossad Chief

[Australian Jewish News] Melissa Singer - A former Mossad chief who is visiting Australia said Tehran lacks the military and strategic capability to destroy the Jewish state. "Israel is indestructible today. It's not so simple just to think you can have a device in your hand and you will be able to hurl it onto a certain location and wipe out a nation," Efraim Halevy said Monday. "Israel has known of this threat [from Iran] for more than a decade and a half and has watched this threat grow - you must assume that Israel was not sitting on its hands...or [waiting] for someone else to do the job." He said Iran's 27-year investment in Lebanon, which was designed to create "a firm Iranian base on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean," was severely decimated in Israel's war with Hizballah. "Iran has suffered a very serious setback in Lebanon. It is not clear yet to anybody how, if at all, they will be able to make a comeback there." But Halevy said Iran remains the "most serious threat Israel has ever faced."
2006-10-20 01:00:00
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