Israel is Doomed (Again)::By Paul Greenberg

"Hillel Halkin, the prolific commentator on all things Israeli, let the cat out of the bag - make that the tiger - in the current issue of Commentary.
In a dispatch that would have made Jeremiah look like a cock-eyed optimist, Mr. Halkin went down the list of existential threats facing the Jewish state and the conclusion was inescapable:

Israel is doomed.

By the end of his article - "If Israel Ceased to Exist" - it's clear there's not much "if" about it.

In addition to all the usual clear and increasingly present dangers to Israel's existence, there now looms Iran's steadily developing nuclear program. Iran's president, the incessant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made his policy toward Israel perfectly clear: Wipe it off the map.

And soon enough, if the world keeps dithering, he'll have the nuclear means to do it. Let this much be said for Iran's firebrand-in-chief: He's an open book, namely Mein Kampf.

But won't Israel's nuclear arsenal deter him?"

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