Why is it that only Isreali politicians tell it like it is?  Here in America we swim in our political leaders' soothing rhetoric -- we elect them for their ability to tell us what we want to hear.  There is a nobel purpose in attempts to minimize fear and terror.  But let us not be deluded, as any rational person is wont to do in this situation; we are indeed facing an "unbelievable danger.". 

And from the same article:

This scares me.  Enemies ally themselves -- without first resolving their enmity -- only under mortal threat.  Isreal and Palestine are indistinguishable to a re-entry vehicle, and Jerusalem lies within minutes of an Afghani ballistic missile.  I can't believe I am even saying these things, it is all so unthinkable.  But it is also visciously real. 

"God bless us, every one..  --Tiny Tim, from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.