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You can only kick a person so long before they do retaliate and Iran does have the ability to make any major war extremely painful for any nation that started one.
The same statement can fit Israel easily. You can only kick Israel through Hamas and Hezbollah for too long before Israel retaliates. Gotta love the world of grey in the Middle East.
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Israel attacking any Iranian nuclear site would start a war with the one nation in the region with the ability to back up their threats of war. They also have the ability to shoot down the Israeli fighters before they hit their objectives, still justifying an immense increase in their funding of terror groups. Iran is not a country you piss off too much as they do have the ability to cause a lot of pain in a very short amount of time and attacking a nuclear site is very easy way to encourage them to retaliate.
And Syria back in the 00s and Iraq back in the 80s also had the ability to shoot down Israeli fighters, and they failed. Israel taking extreme risks to knock out these reactors certainly isn't some major revelation to the Israelis. If you give the Israelis credit for anything, it's for taking extremely ballsy moves when it comes to warfare and defense.
The Iranians don't have the capacity to attack Israel directly, so any threats along those lines Israel yawns off. The only thing the Iranians can do is increase funding for groups Israel is already engaged in conflict with, which, for the most part, Israel has proven itself quite capable of containing. The next possibility is Israelis being targeted outside of Israel (like the Bulgarian tourist bus bombing a little while back), but to the Israeli government, the removal of the Iranian reactor is in the best interest of Israel's long term security.
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Actually, a number of their neighbours don't give a rat's ass about Israel anymore, the biggest one was Syria and they are busy with a civil war. The remaining enemies are terror groups, one of which exists entirely because Israel has decided to play the victim card while victimizing Palestinians. Hard to blame a people for turning to terror when they haven't had their own nation for a couple thousand years. Even harder when the people that own your nation now decide they want to settle into your lands illegally and then become victimized by extremist settlers that will stoop to beating children on the way to school. Also hard when a handful of countries have basically left the nation doomed to being an occupied territory despite the fact 132 countries now recognize them as a state.
No bias here. No sir. Certainly this is an unbiased perspective of the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
If you can't tell, I'm being completely sarcastic.
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Israel hasn't exactly done much to calm the situation and now with Iran they seem intent on turning it into a real war based on information with has never had any actual proof to back it up. Terror groups are small beans when compared to a nation that wants to drop a bomb on a nuclear site.
And why should they try to calm the situation with a country that has indirectly engaged war with Israel, and doesn't even recognize Israel's legitimacy as a country?
Again, this probably wouldn't turn into "a real war", considering Iran's capacity to directly strike at Israel is a joke, and can only use proxies, which they have been using already, long before any concerns of a nuclear reactor were expressed by Israel. Really, nothing changes. Israel feels secure, Iran angrily pouts and stomps while they toss more money and arms to terrorist groups that Israel is more than happy to play Whack-A-Terrorist with every 5 years or so.
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It was that, or something similar, my grandfather use to say
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yeah your right, my mistake, I must have had Iran on my mind when I wrote the above. 
