Is Israel’s Going to Bomb Iran?

From New York Jewish Week: Israel must launch a military attack against Iran within days, according to one expert — months, according to others — if it is to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Those dire warnings, most recently from John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg in a cover article in The Atlantic, have once again thrust Iran’s quest to develop nuclear weapons back into the spotlight. But several experts scoffed at the claim by Bolton that Israel must act by early next week to keep Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility from becoming operational. Bolton, who served at the UN under President George W. Bush, had claimed on Fox Business Network that once Russia delivers nuclear fuel to the Bushehr facility this weekend, which is then loaded into the plant’s core, it would be too late for Israel to launch a military strike because an attack would spread radiation and harm Iranian civilians. “Once that uranium, once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor, certainly once they’re in the reactor, attacking it means a release of radiation, no question about it,” Bolton said. “So if Israel is going to do anything against Bushehr it has to move in the next eight days.”