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Israelis Fear Blame For US-Iran War

Experts warn that it may soon be too late to prevent a nuclear Iran, necessitating an American military intervention for which Israel may bear the blame, reports Barbara Slavin from the J-Street convention. A prolonged conflict could both weaken the Israeli-US alliance and be detrimental to US interests.
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A thread of anxiety ran through a conference of liberal American Jews and Israelis Sunday [March 25]. The worry: that Israel would bear the blame for any military confrontation between the United States and Iran.

Retired brigadier general Shlomo Brom, a former director of strategic planning for the Israeli Defense Forces General Staff, told an audience at the J-Street convention that he had participated in talks with the George W. Bush administration before it attacked Iraq in 2003.

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