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Netanyahu: I’d Attack Iran Alone

Going Solo?

Insists he does not need U.S. approval.

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In a shift from the friendlier tactics he’d been using lately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Israeli television Monday that he is willing to attack Iran's nuclear program without support from the United States or, really, anyone. "When David Ben-Gurion declared the foundation of the state of Israel, was it done with American approval?" Netanyahu asked. However, the aggressive posturing could be just that: it could just be part of a rhetorical campaign to get other countries to put pressure on Iran. But only time will tell.

Read it at The New York Times