Argument: Israel can fully deter and defend against Iran

Support

Joshua Muravchik. “Opposing View: Iranian Bomb ‘Intolerable'”. USA Today. November 20, 2007: “Israel, with its conventional arms and weapons of mass destruction, is amply capable of assuring its own military deterrence and defence, whatever Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, thinks or says.”

Supporting arguments

1. Iran would not bomb Jerusalem, it is a holy place

Opposing arguments

1. Israel is not very big. One nuclear weapon could destroy much of the population