http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10350.htmsnip>" The second Holocaust will be quite different. One bright morning, in five or ten years' time, perhaps during a regional crisis, perhaps out of the blue, a day or a year or five years after Iran's acquisition of the Bomb, the mullahs in Qom will covoke in secret session, under a portrait of the steely-eyed Ayatollah Khomeini, and give President Ahmedinejad, by then in his second or third term, the go ahead. The orders will go out and the Shihab III and IV missiles will take off for Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, and Jerusalem, and probably some military sites, including Israel's half dozen air and (reported) nuclear missile bases. Some of the Shihabs will be nuclear-tipped, perhaps even with multiple warheads. Others will be dupes, packed merely with biological or chemical agents, or old newspapers, to draw off or confuse Israel's anti-missile batteries and Home Guard units.
With a country the size and shape of Israel (an elongated 8,000 square miles), probably four or five hits will suffice: No more Israel. A million or more Israelis, in the greater Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem areas, will die immediately. Millions will be seriously irradiated. Israel has about seven million inhabitants. No Iranian will see or touch an Israeli. It will be quite impersonal."<snip
snip>"As with the first, the second Holocaust will have been preceded by decades of preparation of hearts and minds, by Iranian and Arab leaders, Western intellectuals and media outlets. Different messages have gone out to different audiences -- but all have (objectively) served the same goal, the demonization of Israel. Muslims the world over have been taught: 'The Zionists\the Jews are the embodiment of evil' and 'Israel must be destroyed.' And Westerners, more subtly, were instructed: 'Israel is a racist oppressor state' and 'Israel, in this age of multi-culturalism, is an anachronism and superfluous'. Generations of Muslims and at least a generation of Westerners have been brought up on these catechisms.
The build-up to the second Holocaust (which, incidentally, in the end, will probably claim roughly the same number of lives as did the first) has seen an international community fragmented and driven by separate, selfish appetites - Russia and China obsessed with Muslim markets; France, with Arab oil - and the United States driven by the debacle in Iraq into a deep isolationism. Iran has been left free to pursue its nuclear destiny and Israel and Iran, to face off alone."<snip
IMO what is of interest in this essay is not whether Benny Morris is right or wrong in his forecast. Who knows? (Of course, even the POSSIBILITY that there is....lets say....a 5% chance he is correct is chilling.) What is of interest is that this attitude is coming from a man who--for years-- was repeatedly denounced by mainstream Israeli opinion as a revisionist pro-Palestinian historian. Read about him at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris .
If this feeling is indeed prevalent now among Jewish Israelis, even leftist Israelis, I believe an eventual pre-emptive attack on Iran, by Israel if the USA does not act first, is inevitable. (Even though Benny Morris himself does not believe Israel will have the heart to launch a strike on Iran, or at least an effective strike.) The possibility that Israel will, from a (in my opinion understandable) feeling of isolation and desperation launch a nuclear strike on Iranian nuclear facilities--- is growing.