Great post Stark. 100% True. Even through we pay child support to Israel, Obama's administration has not been as much of push overs as other presidents have been for Israel in the past.
This next four years will be very interesting (assuming December 21st, nothing happens).
Hahaha...If Netenyahu "ignored" the president, he would sign his country's political death warrant.
I honest to god believe Israel could be dumb enough to attack Iran fooled into believing they can quick bomb the country into submission, this will NOT work and I can only shudder at the outcome - something is going to happen soon, nothing todo with 21th December tho
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Netanyahu has to act at some stage, Israel can not afford an atomic Iran and a lot of people don't understand why. The reasons are not that 1 nuke can wipe out Israel they have nothing to fear from Iran since they know that Iran is not suicidal, Iran knows that if they ever nuke Israel they get wipped of this planet - even the remote chance that Iran is giving terrorists an abomb its very unlikely they do that since the makeup of the actual bomb plus the uranium etc can all be traced back to Iran.
No the reasons for Israel not being able to afford an atomic Iran is much simpler and can be described in 2 simple words.
Power balance.Philip Zimbargo once made a great explanation: Its the same thing as if you are going for lunch with your rich uncle and you are student, its polite for you to suggest that you pay the bill even if both know that the bill will be paid by the uncle, now lets assume that the uncle all of a sudden says - Yes okay you can pay the bill - the balance is off right there.
Same happened when the russians invaded Georgia, Europe US and Russia had an unspoken agreement, Russia can pretend to be a military world power but is not allowed to act, all of a sudden they do act and all the cards are off the table and anything can happen, its makes people very nervous, are they going to move further, will they attack Nato troops next? A lot of uncertainty.
Same with an nuclear iran, it changes the power balance in the region, Israel is not the only country that has atomic weapons, were do you go next? How to you handle that, how do you negotiate?