David Ignatius: Israelis Won’t Wait Forever, They Have More Options than Waiting for the U.S. To Take a Decision

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IGNATIUS: “Final point that I'd like to make is we're all focused to a surprising extent on Washington and what we're talking about here in Washington. But the cockpit in this war is in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Israelis won't wait forever. They have embarked on what they see as an absolutely critical existential campaign to take out Iran's nuclear capability while they can. They have other options besides waiting for the U.S. bunker buster. They're not good ones, but there's more and more talk being leaked about commando operations, other ways to get deep underground at Fordow, and have some of the same effects they could get from the U.S.. So the idea that we can take as long as we want, make up our minds two weeks from today, not necessarily. This is, in the end, going to be an Israeli decision primarily.”