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PAGE  PAGE 6 7 Reasons Why Israel Should Not Attack Irans Nuclear Facilities By Jeffrey Goldberg Israeli officials may see a zero hour for attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, but it could backfire. Israeli Air Force jets fly in a military exercise. (Reuters) On his Twitter feed,  HYPERLINK /OrenKessler Oren Kessler reports that news analysts on Israels Channel 2 are in agreement that an Israeli strike on Irans nuclear facilities seems to be imminent. Ari Shavit, of Haaretz, is reporting that an unnamed senior Israeli security official he interviewed who is identified in a headline as the decision-maker (If you guess Ehud Barak, the defense minister, you would not be wrong)  HYPERLINK /weekend/magazine/a-grave-warning-on-iran-from-the-decision-maker.premium-1.457158 is arguing that the zero-hour is approaching for an Israeli decision: If Israel forgoes the chance to act and it becomes clear that it no longer has the power to act, the likelihood of an American action will decrease. So we cannot wait a year to find out who was right: the one who said that the likelihood of an American action is high or the one who said the likelihood of an American action is low. Aluf Benn, the editor of Haaretz,  HYPERLINK /news/diplomacy-defense/the-world-doesn-t-seem-so-worried-by-netanyahu-s-threats-to-strike-iran.premium-1.457476 writes that the world seems to have accepted the idea that Israel will soon strike Iran: All the signs show that the international community, meaning the western powers and the U.S. in the lead, seem to have reconciled themselves with Israels talk of a military strike - and now they are pushing Netanyahu to stand by his rhetoric and send his bombers to their targets in Iran. In general terms, the market has already accounted for the Israeli strike in its assessment of the risk of the undertaking, and it is now waiting for the expectation to be realized. And then, of course, there is Efraim Halevy, the former head of the Mossad, who  H