Israel/Palestine

azurnoir

(45,850 posts) Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:42 AM Feb 2012

If Israel strikes Iran, it'll be because Obama didn’t stop it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dealt primarily with three things over the past three years: Iran, Iran, and Iran.

In the first instance, Netanyahu was busy making sure Iran was on top of the international agenda. While our prime minister won't say so out loud, he is deeply scornful of his predecessors for spending so much time on the Palestinian issue while neglecting the Iranian issue.

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The Netanyahu-Obama meeting in two weeks will be definitive. If the U.S. president wants to prevent a disaster, he must give Netanyahu iron-clad guarantees that the United States will stop Iran in any way necessary and at any price, after the 2012 elections. If Obama doesn't do this, he will obligate Netanyahu to act before the 2012 elections.

The moral responsibility for what may happen does not lie with the heirs of Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion. The moral responsibility will be borne by the man sitting in the chair that was once Franklin Roosevelt's.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/if-israel-strikes-iran-it-ll-be-because-obama-didn-t-stop-it-1.414245

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If Israel strikes Iran, it'll be because Obama didn’t stop it (Original Post) azurnoir Feb 2012 OP

umm sure, everything is Obama's fault DUIC Feb 2012 #1

My impression is that short of cutting off money to Israel or militarily DEFENDING *Iran* no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #2

If you don't beat up my enemy then I will abelenkpe Feb 2012 #3

And the "blame Obama" crowd is off and running.... oberliner Feb 2012 #4

If "all options are on the table," then Obama has the following option to stop an Israeli attack: leveymg Feb 2012 #5

DUIC

(167 posts)

1. umm sure, everything is Obama's fault

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:01 AM

Feb 2012

This reads like a Limbaugh editorial: "Why didn't that secret Muslim Barack Hussein Obama stop those evil joos?"

Not only is everything wrong in the US Obama's fault, but every decision made by any foreign dignitary anywhere in the world is the responsibility of BHO. Maybe Obama's mind-control ray is on the fritz. Did you ever think of that?

no_hypocrisy

(46,151 posts)

2. My impression is that short of cutting off money to Israel or militarily DEFENDING *Iran*

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:07 AM

Feb 2012

against Israel, there is nothing any American president can say to dissuade Netanyahu. He wants what he wants. Look at this Administration's wishes about curtailing the construction of settlements. Netanyahu just let them keep being built.

Israel and its Prime Minister are loose cannons at this point. The only way to redirect their attention from a military attack on Iran is to remind them of the likely consequences on their country.

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)

3. If you don't beat up my enemy then I will

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:17 AM

Feb 2012

Yeah I'm sorry. That's some seriously twisted bs.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

4. And the "blame Obama" crowd is off and running....

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:54 AM

Feb 2012

Not surprising. Unfair, unfortunate, but not surprising.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)

5. If "all options are on the table," then Obama has the following option to stop an Israeli attack:

Reply to azurnoir (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:02 AM

Feb 2012

Take Netanyahu aside and tell him that an attack on Iran is contrary to U.S. national interest, and will be dealt with as such.

There would be no attack. Period. If there is, Iran can reasonably conclude that those words weren't spoken, and they may treat military action by Israel as an attack by the U.S.

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