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title: "Enough Waiting: Israel should strike pre-emptively – analysis"
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**Would Israel strike first? It’s not a far fetched proposition. Internal polling seems to suggest this would be acceptable to the Israeli public. I often think one purpose of polling, is a way to get approval for desired actions**. **The poll question is like the seed and the responses provide the growth** **for that idea/plan/belief.**

[**Jerusalem Post**](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-813789)

As tensions rise, some in Israel have called for a preemptive strike on Iran and its proxies. According to Israeli media reports, the country’s leadership would consider such a strike if it had solid evidence that Iran was planning a significant attack.

A poll conducted by the 103FM radio station published Tuesday showed that half of the Israeli public favors such a strike.

**Clearly this idea is being considered by Israel and the US.**

> **Ambassador Alan Baker, who directs the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center, told The Media Line that Israeli and American decision-makers will consider whether a preemptive Israeli strike would prevent a larger regional war.**

> **“Israel and the US will probably have positive evidence which will then enable them to justify whatever action is proportionate to the immediacy of the threat,” he said.**

**The idea is to go big.**

**“Any attack that Israel will carry out larger than the previous one in April will be considered a major escalation,” Professor Danny Orbach, a military historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told The Media Line. “`Because of this, it is important that such an attack be of high quality in order to justify it. This will create a further escalation and in essence, a calculated cycle of violence.”`**