Iranian threat to destroy Israel doesn't hold up

What if Israeli leaders and pundits had reacted to the Iranian nuclear program in a completely different way than they actually have, asks Ploughshares Fund grantee Avner Cohen in an op-ed in Haaretz.  Rather than viewing the possibility of an Iranian bomb as an "existential threat," he argues, it should be viewed as what it is, a major political problem that should be addressed politically. "It is a great pity that through our own conduct, and especially the irresponsibly alarmist voices emerging from among us, we have inflated a political problem into an existential threat. And it is an equally great pity that we have granted legitimacy to nuclear bombs being viewed as weapons, instead of helping to delegitimize this useless weapon."