MIDEAST: RADIO; IRANIAN NUCLEAR ARMS, 30% WOULD LEAVE ISRAEL

As Iran moves rapidly toward obtaining nuclear weapons, a third of Israeli Jews would consider leaving Israel. A sudden migration of one third of Jews from Israel would be as disastrous as the influx of a million Palestinians would be under the Obama plan.

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MIDEAST: RADIO; IRANIAN NUCLEAR ARMS, 30% WOULD LEAVE ISRAEL
(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, MAY 22

Some 30% of Israelis would consider abandoning their country if Iran manages to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Military radio announced the result of a poll carried out by the Iranian Studies Centre of the University of Tel Aviv. "If the aim of the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was to create concern in Israel, he has certainly succeeded in doing so," an expert from the research centre, doctor Uzi Rabi, commented. He believes Israeli fears are exaggerated because "the Iranian leadership is certainly fundamentalist from a religious viewpoint, but quite rational from a political point of view". The poll also showed that 81% of Israelis are convinced that Iran will succeed in completing its nuclear programme. More than half of people interviewed think that Israel should use force to remove that threat, without waiting for the outcome of the diplomatic efforts which seem destined to fail. (ANSAmed).