[paleocon patriarch]

If Israel launches a nuclear first strike on Iran to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons, they have become the aggressor and would be widely condemned.

A clean conventional strike , like Osirik, would be acceptable, even though the Iranian facilities are alleged to be hardened and dispersed.

[Interesting Times]

If Israel launches a nuclear first strike on Iran to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons, they have become the aggressor and would be widely condemned.

I haven't heard anybody suggest that Israel might launch a nuclear first strike; all the discussion I've seen focuses on an attempt to take out Iran's nuclear program with a conventional attack.

Do you have a source for this, or is it just speculation?