And with nuclear weapons in the mix, the stakes are far too high for such a level of doubt to be acceptable. The unholy conjunction of genocidal intent with practical means of implementation is not something that any nation would tolerate.
Israel was prepared to wage war four decades ago to protect itself against Egyptian armoured divisions perched on its doorstep. And no one should doubt the willingness of the Jewish state to secure its self-preservation today.
The mullahs in Teheran would do well to remember the admonition of Harvard philosopher George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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If the present crisis is to end, not with a bang, but a whimper, the Iranians must be dissuaded from their nuclear folly.
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Ted Lapkin is associate editor of The Review, a monthly journal of analysis and opinion put out by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, AIJAC.