Nah.
Juan Cole links to a piece by William Lind suggesting that if Likud comes into power on February 10th, then Israel might finally go ahead with that plan.
This attack on Gaza seems more like cheap jab before the whistle is blown. For once, I don’t feel like crying wolf, howling that on a strike on Iran is imminent. Obama will be tested, but that’s too suicidal of a gambit for Israel.
It’s the crazy evangelicals here in the U.S. who are trying to bring about an apocalypse. Whatever problems that I have with the ruthless lack of ethics of the hardliners in Israel in their goals of “security,” they are pragmatic. Even if some renegade Iranians are caught red-handed lobbing rockets, there will be restraint.