[applause] >> professor menashri. >> thank you. nice to be back with you.t's a policy forum, a group i felt closer to my views and i'm closer to their views, compared to other jewish organizations in my government. but i was asked to give a talk about the israeli view. with your permission i will limit it to an israeli view. i'm not a good person to speak about israeli policy because i really struggled with what i regard as unwise policy of israel, the city iran. and not because the iranians are good, because there are better ways to meet the challenge of the iranians. and i know there's a lot to be on the table, a lot that you know, someone to place three questions and trying to just give you some idea about my thought, my view. i want to speak about what is the problem if iran goes nuclear. whose problem it is, and what can be done. i could write a vibrant about it but i will try quickly. now, i think that the world should be a world where we are facing a severe problem, if iran goes nuclear. and all signs are that iran is on the way to its nuclear, to ga

[applause] professor menashri. >> thank you. nice to be back with the policy forum. it's a group that i found closer to my views or i'm closer to their views compared to other huge organizations in my government. i was asked to give a tack about -- a talk about the israeli view, which with permission, i'll limit it to an israeli view. [laughter] i'm not a good person to speak about policy because i really struggled with the -- what i regard as unwise policy of israel, vis-a-vis, iran, and not because iranians are good, but better, i believe, ways to meet the challenge of the iranians other than going public every day, boom, boom, boom iran. i know there's a lot to be on the table, and i know it's a lot you know, so i want to raise three questions and maybe trying to just give you some idea about my thought, my views about things. i want to speak about what is the problem if iran goes nuclear? whose problem it is, and what can be done. i'll try briefly. i think the world should be a world that we are facing a severe problem if iran goes nuclear, and all signs that ira

i agree very much with the point put forward by the professor menashri that the iranian regime right now is very much interested in its own survival, in the survival of the elite. and if this is seen as a vehicle to help ensure the future survival at a time when iran has to calculate syria may fall that strengthens the saudi policy, sunni access, and all these calculations are going on simultaneously, and even if the iranians are only moving towards a break up capacity that word will get out and that they may be thinking solidified regime and if you guess and i haven't gotten involved in this in the intensity that barbara has come about life is it would say this is not the time that they are interested in serious's feelers. they want to sort of decide the europeans from the americans. but even that may be passe. i think the garre waiting for the outcome of the air and spring and for the u.s. election. and right now, you know, this is not the moment. i wish it were. but that leaves us in the position of calculating the other question that's floating around which is what are the conseq