Iran's Berlin moment

Israel's allies cannot afford to waste it

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The world is waiting for Donald Trump to decide whether to bomb Iran. He has given himself two weeks, starting last Thursday. B2 bombers were heading to the region last night, but at the time of writing had not been deployed. This is an opportunity for diplomacy that should not be wasted. The best outcome of this direct confrontation is a negotiated deal that ends Tehran's nuclear threat to Israel for good. But failing that, if there is a military option that offers a reasonable prospect of achieving the same goal, it should be taken.

Israel has a right to exist. It is a response to antisemitism almost as old as humanity, and to the Holocaust, conceived by Zionists, forged in the wake of the second world war and supported by the victors but also by Germany and Japan.