Israel's anxieties about Iran have intensified because of its nuclear enrichment programs under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who talks of erasing Israel from the map. Even as Israel deals with rocket-fire from Palestinian areas, the idea that Iran could pulverize Israel with nuclear weapons is taking priority in strategic planning.
And it could take priority when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees President Barack Obama at the White House next week.
On the defensive about his unwillingness to see the Palestinians carve a state out of land Israel captured in the 1967 war with the Arabs, the Israeli leader may try to shift the focus to Iran and work his …
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