The chaos of a failed state in Iran would be a perfectly acceptable outcome for Netanyahu | Aluf Benn

The Israeli PM’s war on its nemesis is playing well domestically. But real safety for Israelis requires another leader altogether Aluf Benn is the editor-in-chief of Haaretz When Yitzhak Rabin became the prime minister of Israel in 1992, he debated which regional power would be the Jewish state’s stronger enemy – the Islamic Republic of Iran, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Baghdad had the stronger military, but Rabin decided that Tehran posed the larger threat with its combination of Islamist ideology, regional proxies and nuclear ambitions.