IRANIAN BOMB DOES NOT HARM ISRAELI DETERRENCE. Avishai, Bernard, and Reza Aslan. "An Israeli Strike on Iran, a Plan That Just Doesn't Fly" Washingtonpost.com - Nation, World, Technology and Washington Area News and Headlines. 10 Aug. 2008. Web. 25 Aug. 2010. . An Iranian bomb will not "degrade Israel's deterrence" Tens of thousands of conventional missiles in southern Lebanon, Syria, Gaza -- and Iran -- have already done that. Hezbollah knows that it can bombard Israel and survive, as it did during its summer 2006 war with Israel. If an Iranian bomb would provide cover for Hezbollah, Hamas and their state sponsors to launch these missiles at some indefinite point in the future, but a preemptive Israeli attack on Iran would make Iran's proxies launch them now (as Hezbollah did two years ago, how exactly does the logic of regaining Israeli "deterrence" work
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