Underneath the tough Likud exterior Netanyahu is a colossal wimp. He's had numerous opportunities to bomb Iran but cowers before Obama who also hasn't got the stomach for a war with Iran. Obama won't go along because oil prices would rise and snuff out the feeble recovery. Netanyahu won't bomb because he really doesn't believe in an independent Jewish state on the Jewish homeland. If he did he wouldn't have endorsed a 2-state solution and frozen construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (no construction even in the latter now despite official posturing). All the Jewish holy sites, the graves of Joseph, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Leah, Rebecca, Rachel, Zachariah, Samuel and Joshua and the Wailing Wall of the ancient Temple of Solomon are all on the West Bank, known sites where Jews go to pray. Regardless of your view of a two-state solution, a Likud leader who abandons these holy places because of a piece of paper is no proud Israeli and he has no faith in his own country. Such a person will never have the fortitude to bomb Iran. Netanyahu is a total wimp. You can listen to his speeches for days and it is all empty blather with no real pride or sense of Jewish faith and heritage. Underneath the Likud exterior he's a total nebbish. A wimp.
Consider this: According to the New York Times Iran recently transfered nearly all of its deeply-buried low enriched uranium to above-ground sites for further enrichment to 20%. What does that mean? Firstly, uranium comes in two main isotopes, U-235 and U-238 (among others). U-238 is radioactive but not radioactive enough to produce an atomic explosion. U-235 (with 3 less neutrons in the nucleus) is much more radioactive and can be used to make a bomb. In nature uranium is naturally mostly U-238 with only a fraction of one percent U-235. So the U-238 has to be weeded out, a process called enrichment. Thus a huge stock of hundreds of pounds of low-enriched uranium enriches down to only a few pounds of 20% enriched. From there you have so little volume that you can store it in any tunnel anywhere in Iran, nobody will be able to find it to bomb it and you can finish enriching to 90 or 93% which is atom bomb-grade.
Iran now has nearly all its low-enriched uranium at a surface-level site for further enrichment to 20% and has begun that enriching process to 20%. Once Iran enriches to 20% no one will be able to stop them from getting the bomb. And all indications are that they already have everything they need to build a bomb and are only waiting for the highly enriched uranium to put it into.
Iran is also nearly finished completing its nuclear plant at Bushehr and its heavy water plant at Arak, both of which can be used to rapidly make huge quantities of plutonium, which can be used to make an atom bomb instead of uranium. Those sites are also above-ground and yet Netanyahu hasn't bombed them either even with the hour getting late. All the key sites are now at ground level, sitting ducks, and yet Netanyahu does not bomb because he is afraid of WHAT WOULD THE WORLD SAY and losing trade with Europe, and so forth. He's an utter weakling. If Mexico kept threatening to destroy the US and were building a bomb you can be sure that any US president, even Obama, would have bombed Mexico by now. Netanyahu doesn't bomb Iran because underneath the "Likud" exterior he is really the weakest prime minister Israel ever had.
In fact, some years ago the IAEA, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, found traces of polonium-210 in Iran, which is not found in nature and is used almost exclusively to make atom bomb triggers. Polonium-210 is so radioactive that it is actually warm to the touch (not that you would want to touch it). It has a half-life of only 138 days. This means that it is so perishable that it is half gone in less than half a year. This means that you can't store it for long and it is pointless to smuggle it in as it is quickly gone. It's also not that hard to manufacture. In other words, Iran is making and experimenting with polonium-210, in order to construct an atom bomb.
And nearly all of Iran's low enriched uranium is now at ground level.
It's a sitting duck.
If Netanyahu hasn't bombed Iran by now he never will. This is the man who gave up Hebron, where the Cave of Machpela is located, also called the Cave of the Patriarchs, in which are buried Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and most of their wives including Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. That cave is actually mentioned in the Bible, Abraham bought it as a permanent resting place for the patriarchs and matriarchs and 300,000 people visit the cave and pray there every year. Any prime minister who would give this up is just a shabby politician with no cojones. He will never bomb Iran. Netanyahu is a wimp, a nebbish, a shlemiel and a woos. He spends more time looking in the mirror to make sure he looks smooth, suave and debonair at all times. And all he wants is for the world to love him. His wife is a total lunatic who tells her servants that she is the Queen of Israel. But a fish rots from the head first and she does this because her husband is the same kind of pompous idiot. He is obsessed with going along with Obama and even modeled his campaign website after Obama's. See here:
This fool is a man who has absolutely no sense of his own identity and only wants to please the world. Compare this to Menachem Begin who bombed Iraq's nuclear plant and ended their nuclear program without US approval, knowing full well that Israel would then be on the outs with the international community including the US for a while. Today everyone in the world acknowledges that taking out Iraq's nuclear program was a beneficial development. But Netanyahu is too much of a wimp to do that with Iran because he has to be loved at all times, 24/7/365 and can't stop checking himself in the mirror. His brother Yoni, who died rescuing Jews in the Entebbe hostage crisis as leader of the rescuing commandos, would be spinning in his grave to see what a total wimp his brother Benjamin has turned into. Even Netanyahu's own brother-in-law periodically denounces him publicly as a wimp and coward and sellout.
Forget it. Netanyahu will never bomb Iran. He's nothing but a total woosie-wimp-nebbish and if you compare his policies to those of past Labor and Kadima prime ministers they are actually to the left of what those predecessors did. That is a fact. All this speculation that Israel is going to bomb Iran is all ploy, designed to try to goad Obama into doing Israel's dirty work since Netanyahu hasn't the balls to do it himself. Within Likud nobody thinks Netanyahu is a real Likudnik and they all hate him and don't trust him. In their view he talks tough in campaigns and the moment he gets into office he starts selling out.