India, June 26 -- Israel, surrounded by adversaries since its inception, has legitimate reasons to view Iran's nuclear ambitions as existential. To downplay these fears is to ignore history, geopolitics and the chilling statements of Iranian leaders

Over the past several days, many experts and television anchors have been saying that the American air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unprovoked.

In the view of these 'experts' and TV journos, Iran has never held out an existential threat to Israel. Yet, Israelis, particularly their Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, have repeatedly said throughout the global fora that Iran had been trying to develop a nuclear weapons programme whose only target was Israel, and which if not checke...