{"id":563,"date":"2009-04-21T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T20:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/?p=563"},"modified":"2009-04-21T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:50:49","slug":"decision_time_for_israel_on_iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2009\/04\/decision_time_for_israel_on_iran\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Decision Time for Israel on Iran?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/04\/freedman_israel_iran.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/04\/freedmancover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/04\/freedman_israel_iran.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">latest contribution<\/a> to <em>Middle East Papers<\/em> is by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/members\/robert_o_freedman\/\">Robert O. Freedman<\/a>, who blogs about Israeli affairs at MESH. As Iran\u2019s nuclear drive continues unimpeded, and the Obama administration pursues a policy of \u201cengagement,\u201d Israel approaches a moment of decision. Freedman explains why diplomacy and sanctions are unlikely to succeed, and considers plausible scenarios of an Israeli resort to military action against Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. Download <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2009\/04\/freedman_israel_iran.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin The latest contribution to Middle East Papers is by Robert O. Freedman, who blogs about Israeli affairs at MESH. As Iran\u2019s nuclear drive continues unimpeded, and the Obama administration pursues a policy of \u201cengagement,\u201d Israel approaches a moment of decision. Freedman explains why diplomacy and sanctions are unlikely to succeed, and considers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622,2239,2223,2379,2317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-israel","category-nuclear","category-robert-o-freedman","category-sanctions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}