iran so far away

Bibi Netanyahu: Not Bluffing

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting in his offices on March 18, 2012
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MARCH 18: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting in his offices on March 18, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty images) Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

That’s what well-sourced Israel-watcher Jeffrey Goldberg says in his Bloomberg News column today: “After interviewing many people with direct knowledge of internal government thinking, however, I’m highly confident that Netanyahu isn’t bluffing — that he is in fact counting down to the day when he will authorize a strike against a half-dozen or more Iranian nuclear sites.”