Israeli plans for Iran attack should be divulged

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complained to the US government on Monday about the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, who during an interview expressed doubts about the wisdom of Israel launching a military attack against Iran. Instead of strategising Israel should be open and above all realistic about potential scenarios of attack, the left-liberal daily Der Standard asserts: "The Israelis' annoyance could mean that they don't want an open critical debate because it would weaken public support for an attack that is already in planning. This makes a radical exposure of all potential scenarios all the more urgent. The Middle East's recent past is peppered with cases in which leading politicians have made mistakes when it came to predicting what turn events would take. The most glaring example of this is of course the 2003 Iraq war, but Israel's Lebanon War in 2006 also falls into this category. So this should prompt people to stop talking of a 'military strike'. It would be a prolonged military operation, a war that would not be confined to Iran but would also involve its allies in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza."

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