Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Tel Aviv will take drastic measures to “protect” itself. He was speaking at the annual memorial service for Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. He said Gurion was under great pressure to avoid declaring Israel's foundation in 1948.
Israeli media suggest Netanyahu was implying that Israel would go ahead with its aggressive plan against Iran and would resist objections just like what Gurion did.
Political commentator, Mark Dankof joins Press TV from San Antonio to share his opinions on the issue.
The video offers the opinions of two additional guests: Omar Nashabi, a judicial affairs expert from Beirut, and Philip Giraldi who is a former CIA officer. What follows is the transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Israel has been retching up its war rhetoric against Iran in the past few months. What do you make of Netanyahu's recently claimed "history lesson"? What is behind Israel's rhetoric? What is it trying to achieve?
Dankof: I think the answer to that is to be found in a couple of essays that are currently on the internet. M.J. Rosenberg has a piece for the so-called political correctness site that deals with the American enterprise institute admitting that Israel's increasingly militant attitude toward Iran has little of anything to do with the Iran's alleged nuclear program and its alleged nuclear weaponized program.
