Against a background of increasingly strident rhetoric, Israeli politicians have been lining up to establish their credentials as hawks or doves as the government considers its options on the vexed question of a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
With a belligerent prime minister in power most of the attention has been centred on Benjamin Netanyahu who has let it be known that unless the US toughens its stance against Iran's nuclear threat, Israel might go it alone.
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