Netanyahu urged Olmert to initiate Israeli attack on Iran
In 2007, Netanyahu said he would agree to join Ehud Olmert's government if Israel attacked Iran, a WikiLeaks document shows. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed willingness to join Ehud Olmert's government in 2007 if Israel initiated an attack on Iran, a document from the Israeli WikiLeaks collection has revealed. On July 20, 2007, Marc J. Sievers, the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, sent a telegram to the State Department in Washington on the matter. The telegram was classified "Confidential," the level between "Unclassified" and "Secret."