TEL AVIV – Israel’s desperate plea that the world act to curtail what its intelligence service describes as Iran’s “gallop toward a nuclear bomb” has not gotten the positive response that Israel expected. With the United Nations sanctions regime now having proven to be utterly ineffective, and with international diplomacy apparently futile in preventing the Iranians from mastering the technology for enriching uranium, Israel is being boxed into a corner.
特拉维夫－以色列拼命呼吁国际社会行动起来，以遏制其情报机构描述的伊朗“核弹大跃进”的请求，没有得到它期望的正面反应。随着联合国的制裁机制现在已经被证明完全无效，以及国际外交在阻止伊朗掌握铀浓缩技术上的显然不起作用，以色列被逼进了一个角落里。应该是一个重大的国际调停努力事件，现在正在沦为一场预示灾难的以色列－伊朗大摊牌。