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Atlantic's Goldberg Discusses Israel vs. Iran; Boycott Idea

Al-Monitor correspondent Barbara Slavin interviews Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who has become a major figure in the debate over whether and when Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Goldberg recently became embroiled in a Twitter duel with blogger Peter Beinart over the wisdom of boycotting products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has become a major figure in the debate over whether and when Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Author of a provocative piece in 2010 that predicted that Israel would strike Iran the following year, Goldberg has shifted since then,  even suggesting recently that Israel might have been bluffing.

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