LET'S HOPE THIS GETS A LOT OF PRESS

And I do mean a LOT because this cuts off at the knees one of the neo-cons' arguments for an attack on Iran.

Barak Says Nuke - Armed Iran Couldn't Destroy Israel
By REUTERS
Published: September 17, 2009

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A nuclear-armed Iran would not be capable of destroying Israel, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday in remarks that departed from long-running Israeli arguments about the threat posed by its foe.

"Right now, Iran does not have a bomb. Even if it did, this would not make it a threat to Israel's existence. Israel can lay waste to Iran," Barak said in a transcript of a newspaper interview obtained by Reuters before publication Friday.

"I don't think we are on the brink of a new Holocaust," Barak said in his interview with Yedioth Ahronoth daily.