“Last week the Harvard Kennedy School held a simulation game of the Iranian nuclear crisis, and Israel should be very concerned about its course and its outcome,” reports Haaretz. “The game made it clear: Iran will not stop on its path to producing nuclear weapons. The United States will not embark on a military action and will find it difficult to enlist support at the United Nations for imposing more severe sanctions, while relations between Israel and the United States will deteriorate. Prof. Graham Allison, a leading analyst of American security policy for decades, conducted the game, whose participants were representatives from countries and organizations likely to be affected by the real outcome. Israel was represented by Dore Gold, former ambassador to the United Nations, and Dr. Shai Feldman, currently at Brandeis University, and by a former brigadier general and a nuclear physicist. Their decisions were made by consensus. The U.S. team, headed by Nicholas Burns, who was an assistant to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice during the administration of George W. Bush and was responsible for the ‘Iranian portfolio,’ included Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command from 2007-2008….”To read more on this fascinating series of war games, and the disturbing conclusions, click here.
HEADLINES TO TRACK:
- Teitel’s victims: He deserves life sentence — ‘Jewish terrorist’ faces his victims’ families for first time, says ‘God is the king’ and refuses judge’s request to rise as trial opens. Father of boy injured by explosive device: He must look us in the eyes and self-examine himself
- IDF simulates missile attacks, war against Syria and Hezbollah
- 90% drop in rocket attacks since Cast Lead
- Amir Taheri in WSJ: Iran’s Democratic Moment
- Israeli scientist Ada Yonath receives Nobel Prize for chemistry
- WSJ: The Right Sanctions Can Still Stop Iran — Iran’s investors and commercial partners must be denied access to U.S. and European capital markets
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