The below item, posted today by the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli think tank with close ties to the IDF leadership, indicates that there is renewed concern that Netanyahu will revive plans to launch a preventive unilateral strike on Iran early next year if he is reelected. I am told that the publication of details of this wargame, which includes a warning that an Israeli strike could lead to an out-of-control escalation ultimately triggering World War III is part of a push-back, once again, by sane elements in the Israeli national security establishment who distrust Bibi Netanyahu as a messianic lunatic who could lead Israel and the world into a devastating war. This comes at the same time that other Israeli national security insiders are revealing that Bibi tried to launch a preventive strike against Iran in 2010, but was rebuffed by the IDF leadership and others because he did not have the go-ahead from his Security Cabinet or the Knesset. British independent TV Channel 4 is going to air a broadcast tonight detailing the 2010 attempt to launch a preventive attack, and just how close things came to a hot war.
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10461
