U.S.-Israel Spat Plants Seeds of Crisis

Last month, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published an analysis of three simulations conducted recently by experts at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the Brookings Institution. The simulations explored different scenarios for how the Iranian crisis would develop, and an outcome they had in common was rising tensions between the United States and Israel and a failure of the sanctions policy to halt Iran's nuclear progress. "Game play suggests," the analysis points out, "that an eventual US-Israeli crisis is likely."