The New York Times has published an article considering an interesting and important question: Are Israeli leaders talking so openly about the possibility of preemptive strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to pressure the West into taking more decisive economic and diplomatic steps to make a war with Iran ultimately unnecessary? Or are Israel’s leaders actually preparing the world — and their own people — for actual war. Worth reading.

>> Also worth reading on The Joshua Fund website: “Rumors of War: Could Hostilities Between Israel and Iran Break Out In Spring 2012?”