Existential Threats

by Patrick Appel

Marc Lynch's contribution to the Iran-Israel debate is worth reading in full. A taste:

Israel, according to Goldberg, wants the world to share itsperception of the Iranian threat and to act in concert. But again, ifIsrael's leadership genuinely believes that Iran poses the greatestexistential threat that Israel has ever faced, and that it needs theworld to accept its perspective that it is the world's problem and notjust Israel's, then why has it taken so many steps over the...