I remember that there was no talk when Israel was about to attack the nuclear plant in Osirak. However, there is no end of blabber and bragging about the viability and inevitability of doing the same job in Iran.

This is not the only difference. To be more precise there is no similarity of the two scenarios. Iran of today is a long way from the Iraq of yesterday. Also, Israel of today has much more to consider and fear than Israel of yesterday.

According to the departing Chief of Intelligence in Israel, there are 200,000 rockets under Iranian command trained at every single point in Israel. Being a Westernised society and economy, Israel can in no way endure even the most moderate retaliation scenario for an air attack on Iran's nuclear plants.

Netanyahu has all the reasons in the world to hack in cheinick and keep the security mood hot, even very hot. He has the rot and stench of civilian suffering from which he wants to divert attention. His Sancho Panza, Generalissimo Barak, invents his grand historic mission to bolster his pathetic and still diminishing political stature.

But sadly the lesson of history is that these retorts, whatever their reason maybe, generate their own independent forces. The state of affairs of contemporary Israel presents the familiar conditions where failing leaders sleep-march their people into mega disasters. This is self-evident, and it is the thought which is most frightening to so many experts and analysts.

Furthermore, beyond the fact that this Israeli government locked itself into disharmony with the white house over the palestinian issue, it's leaders hardly bother to mask their antics in trying to wrong-foot Obama over the Iranian nuclear issue and bolster the chances of the Republicans who try unseat him, what is a certain proof that the two at the helm assume that they muster some superior cunning and luck which none of their predecessors ever dreamt to rely on. In plain words the guys are dangerous megalomaniacs, oiber chochems who play 'grand politics' to their very diferent logic.

Looking at the likes of Mussolini, or more recently Saddam, few could mistake their character as anything other than maddened demagogue and charlatan. But it is frightening to remember that the same were once worshiped as super minds and national visionaries.

I dare imagine how we would look at the pictures of Netanyahu and Barak after such a disaster. What would we ask ourselves? How we did not notice that the pair of them are phoney? How we came to follow them like brainles lambs and entrust them of all people with the lives of our beloved?

MB