This inner sanctum at the end of a corridor between Netanyahu's private room and the office of his top military adviser, is where one of the decade's most momentous military decisions could soon be taken: to launch an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program.
Time for that decision is fast running out and the mood in Jerusalem is hardening.
Iran continues to enrich uranium in defiance of international pressure, saying it needs the fuel for its civilian nuclear program. The West is convinced that Tehran's real objective is to build an atomic bomb - something which the Jewish state will never accept because its leaders consider a nuclear armed-Iran a threat to its very existence.
Comment: Rather, the West is convinced it should do as Israel says, and Israel will never accept that any of its neighbours challenge its regional hegemony, which rests in part on an arsenal of 200-400 nuclear warheads. Funny how no one mentions that it is the rest of Middle Eastern countries and not Israel who are under existential threat.
Adding to the international pressure, U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said this week American military plans to strike Iran were "ready" and the option was "fully available".
Comment: It's always nice to see the mainstream media continuing to promote blatant lies about Iran's 'nukes' and ignore the copious evidence that the West is convinced that Iran is not building nuclear bombs.
It's also nice to see the mainstream media ignore the obvious logic that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to no one, least of all Israel, given that Israel possesses upwards of 400 nuclear weapons and could easily destroy Iran.
Perhaps the problem is that the mainstream media has somehow forgotten that 45 years of 'cold war' between the US and the Soviet Union proved conclusively that MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a sure safeguard against nuclear war. Of course, Israel would say that the Iranians are so crazy that they would accept their own annihilation just to launch one nuke at Israel, but again, there is no evidence whatsoever for such a ridiculous contention.
In short, the real 'fear' here is that Iran with a nuclear capability would act as a bulwark against Israeli and US hegemony and off-the-leash criminality and murder in the Middle East. That's why Iran "must be stopped", because Israel wants to remain the economic and military top dog on the block.