Sources in Netanyahu’s circle swiftly rubbished the notion, describing the story, with its doomsday predictions of regional and even world war, as a “scare tactic” – part of an effort by some in the American hierarchy to tie Israel’s hands.

Listening to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to AIPAC later on Monday night, however, one could easily imagine that here was a leader whose mind was indeed made up, or very close to it, about the imminent imperative to act decisively to thwart Iran. The Channel 2 story, in the context of the prime minister’s strident remarks, did not sound risible at all.

No one, Netanyahu told the vast audience, could afford to wait much longer. Sanctions were not working. And a nuclear Iran was an intolerable danger.

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