I don’t know what to make of this report in the New York Times that Israel almost attacked Iran in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Particularly in 2010, that would have been in the context of following up on Operation Cast Lead (a.k.a, the Gaza War). I guess the news is, if it can be believed at face value, that the civilian leadership really wanted to start a war with Iran but the military leaders demurred. But this was already understood to be the basic history, so all this does is confirm that it wasn’t necessarily all bluster intended to play bad cop to our good cop.
Israel’s Almost Wars With Iran
