Threat Inflation Fuels Support for Preventive War

The danger here is that this exaggerated threat perception affects the kinds of policies that people are willing to support.

The Israel Democracy Institute conducted a survey and found that 54% of all Israelis believe that Iran “constitutes an existential danger” to Israel right now:

A certain majority (54%) of the entire sample considers that Iran is an existential danger to Israel, about a quarter view it is a medium danger, and only a minority (13%) see it as posing only a …