Risk grows that Israel will go alone to take out Iranian nukes

By: Sara A. Carter, Washington Examiner:

The growing rift between the Obama administration and Israel, coupled with the administration’s failure to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program, has increased the chances that the Israelis will eventually launch an attack on Iran, experts said.

“U.S.-Israeli relations are at their lowest point since … the early ’80s,” said Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council. “It has a lot to do with the fact that Israel thinks this administration is not serious about preventing a nuclear Iran. What is Israel going to do? I’m not certain one way or another. But from the rhetoric, there will come a determining point.”

Berman said Israel “could wait and see if sanctions would work, [but] if Israel feels threatened it would strike first before allowing a nuclear Iran.”

“If I had to put down odds, I think I would [bet on] the latter,” he added.

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