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In debating how to respond to last weekend’s Iranian airstrike, Israel’s war cabinet is opting for features that may simply deter long-term attacks or reduce hostilities, but all have disadvantages.
By Ronen Bergman, Isabel Kershner, Julian E. Barnes and Russell Goldman
Ronen Bergman reported from Tel Aviv, Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem, Julian E. Barnes from Washington and Russell Goldman from New York.
Israeli leaders were debating Tuesday what would be the most productive way to respond to Iran’s unprecedented airstrike over the weekend, officials said, weighing a set of features calibrated to achieve other strategic outcomes: deterring an attack in the future, appeasing its U. S. allies and avoiding all-out attacks. war.
Iran’s attack on Israel, a massive bombardment that added ballistic missile payloads and explosive drones, has replaced the undeclared regulations of the rivals’ long shadow war. In this conflict, primary air strikes introduced from the territory of one country opposed to the other had been avoided.
Given this replacement as a precedent, the calculation by which Israel makes a decision about its next action has also been superseded, said the Israeli officials who requested anonymity to discuss Iran.
“We stand idly by in the face of this kind of aggression,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli army spokesman, said Tuesday. Iran, he added, will not emerge “safely from this aggression. “
While Israel’s war cabinet met to receive a military response, other countries implemented diplomatic pressure on Israel and Iran in hopes of defusing the conflict.
Nearly all of the missiles and drones fired in the Sunday morning Iranian attack were intercepted through Israel and its allies, the United States and Britain.
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