world news  'Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012'  One of
Israel's leading strategic analysts says the country's
leadership believes air strikes can set back the Iranian nuclear
programme by three to five years An Israeli Air Force F-16I jet
fighter An Israeli Air Force F-16I jet fighter takes off after
touching down briefly at the Ramon Air Force Base in the Negev
Desert. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA  Ronen Bergman, an
investigative journalist and analyst on the Israeli newspaper
Yedioth Ahronoth has written a long piece for the New York Times
magazine, asking the question on many people's minds: Will
Israel attack Iran?  Bergman's answer, which comes in the last
paragraph, is yes:  After speaking with many senior Israeli
leaders and chiefs of the military and the intelligence, I have
come to believe that Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012.
Perhaps in the small and ever-diminishing window that is left,
the United States will choose to intervene after all, but here,
from the Israeli perspective, there