Is this helpful? The picture at left was posted lately by Middle East Strategy at Harvard, a project of the Olin Institute, which is headed by neocon Stephen Peter Rosen. The image accompanies a printed talk by Alan Dowty that is very intelligent; it suggests that the Holocaust analogy is so prominent in Israeli statesmen's minds, going back to Ben-Gurion's decision to get nukes, that Israel's leaders will have no faith in deterrence this time round either, and will do like they did the Iraqis in '81. Note the first comment on Dowty's talk is by Walter Laqueur, the scholar of Zionism, who says we must not rule out deterrence as an option.
