Israeli historian Benny Morris has this provocative piece in The New York Times today, in which he says everyone, including the Iranians, should hope that the Iranian nuclear weapons program is destroyed, and soon, in a conventional attack.

ISRAEL will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months — and the leaders in Washington and even Tehran should hope that the attack will be successful enough to cause at least a significant delay in the Iranian production schedule, if not complete destruction, of that country’s nuclear program. Because if the attack fails, the Middle East will almost certainly face a nuclear war — either through a subsequent pre-emptive Israeli nuclear strike or a nuclear exchange shortly after Iran gets the bomb.

Very interesting proposition, and quite disturbing. Read the whole thing.

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