>Once Iran has a missile and a nuclear warhead, they will be launched.

No they won't. Iran's leaders may be corrupt ideologues, but they're not suicidal.

a uni professor writing such garbage? If Peter can't see why Israel is aggressive he certainly needs to drop his sick warped narrative. And now he is involved in business 'ethics'? The swamp certainly needs draining.

Unlikely Mr Bowen. Unlikely.

Nuclear weapons are only ever used to strengthen negotiation outcomes. There is no evidence to support otherwise. This is the most fearful reality of the Israelis, a strengthening Iranian hand.

Actually, the reverse of Peter Bowden predictions is more likely. When Iran achieve nuclear weapons, peace will follow

The analysis that I have read is that Israel has the 3rd or 4th largest nuclear arsenal in the world with somewhere in the region of 200 warheads with a significant number of thermonuclear warheads.

Secondly, Israel has the Iron Dome and other battle-tested anti-missile systems that would knock out the majority of any Iranian crude missiles.

Only if Iran is prepared to sacrifice all its cities and an order of magnitude more people than Israel's entire population would it be stupid enough to try. The only benefit would be a deterrent to an Israeli first strike.

Coupled with the vast cost of developing nukes and the crippling sanctions it would face if it did proceed to build the nukes, this is not an option that any sane government would follow.

Only one thing wrong with that SM. What ever gave you the idea that the Ayatollahs were sane.

Hey Peter. The Islamic civilisation is the sworn enemy of your civilisation They have been attacking us for 1400 hundred years and that only ceased during the 18th century when Islam became so backward that it could no longer attack the west, and it became easy meat for a western counterattack.

But there is more than one way to skin a rat, and the mullahs are enthusiastic about Islamic immigration into the west, because they know that they can destroy YOUR civilisation through immigration and birth rate differentials.

Israel is one country which will never submit to Islamic invasion, either militarily or through immigration, and as such, I am proud that my country was one of only two countries in the whole world that supported Islam's most effective enemy. Israel is our ally against Islam.

Don't give me that crap about the poor Palestinians. Milions of Jews have been driven from their homes in every Arab country there is,and most have gone to Israel as their only safe haven. The Arabs could solve the whole Palestinian problem tomorrow by allowing "Palestinians" to become citizens of their own countries, but they will never do that.

The reason is entirely religious. Muslims are incensed that a religion who's homeland they conquered has come back to the place of it's origin. The Mullahs are exactly like Hitler who declared that where a German soldier conquers, that is German land forever. The problem is not ISrael, it is the evil, scheming, superstitious mullahs, who think that they will live high on the hog forever in eternity if they can just crush Israel.

Your sympathies with our collective enemy should be a source of enduring shame to you. Tell the damned Arabs to leave Israel alone and the problem will go away. But it will never go away because the religious nut case mullah's don't want it to go away. The mullahs need Israel like Oceania needed Big Brother.