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06/14/2009: "Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran: poll"

Asked how a nuclear-armed Iran would affect their lives, 80 percent of respondents said they expected no change. Eleven percent said they would consider emigrating and 9 percent said they would consider relocating inside Israel.

Twenty-one percent of Israelis believe Iran "would attack Israel with nuclear weapons with the objective of destroying it," the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), which commissioned the poll, said in a statement.

Israeli Arabs who make up some 20 percent of the population - and are generally less likely to see themselves as targets of the Jewish state's enemies - were not included for budgetary reasons, he said.

[ For "budgetary reasons"? They should not have been included just because the question is directed towards Jewish Israelis. It looks like a lot of Israelis are sensible enough to admit what the rest all know: that since Israel has plently of nukes and defenses of its own there is no real threat from Iranian nukes due to the disincentive of MAD - Mutally Assured Destruction. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090614/wl_nm/us_israel_iran_nuclear_poll