Comments on: Iran, Israel and an Obama miscalculation in the works?

By: Abu Ammar Mangorangca

Abu Ammar Mangorangca — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:45:09 +0000

So far Obama has not shown enough political will to do justice in the Middle East, despite the rhetoric. The long-standing hold of AIPAC and the neocon in the direction of American policy seems too formidable for him to shake.

I hope he can show more mettle and decisiveness to seek what is truly for the interest of the United States and the world at large.

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By: Mikael B.

Mikael B. — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:42:10 +0000

Just two thoughts:

1) What about the often-to-be-read assertion that a nuclear-armed Iran would make many people and a lot of investments leave Israel? Is this belief not something that many on the right and on the left agree upon? What it effectively says is that Israel’s own irrational exuberance would put it at a disadvantage, preventing it from seeking a stable relationship based on mutual deterrence.

2) This thought is based on assessments that have appeared on the Stratfor website (which is usually friendly towards Israel). They have recently written that the US currently do not have any good options regarding Iran. Militarily, as already noted, Iran has too many ways of hitting US and Western interests; santions-wise, Russia and China do not seem to be prepared to go along. So, is it not all the more important for Obama to build a coalition of Arab states which, in its turn, requires putting pressure on Israel to gain legitimacy? That’s all based on the assumption that the Western powers do have a genuine imperialist interest in preventing Iran from going nuclear.

Mikael

By: Fakhri

Fakhri — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:38:40 +0000

Dear Alan,
You got this head on. Obama appears to be a big gambler,
albeit one who exxagerates his chances of a win.He
is better off realizing that neither he nor the other three
hypocrites France,Germany and Britain have any legitimate
claim on Iran, and that the latter will not likely
toe their line.Israel, I feel, is more vulnerable now
than she has been in sixty odd years,and there is the
risk that Obama may have been set up.That risk could
precisely be what any lunatic decision-maker/s in the
current Israeli government may manage to stage. And isn’t
there plenty of them around?

By: Tom Mysiewicz

Tom Mysiewicz — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:31:38 +0000

After the pathetic attempts of Saddam to “comply” (like destroying intermediate-range missile tubes) and the subsequent “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq–the Iranians would have to be a bit touched if they thought anything they did would affect ther outcome. The traditional burden of proof in the West has been: “Prove it”. The burden of proof was on an accuser. This has been turned on its head into: “Prove you did NOT do it”. You cannot prove to the satisfaction of the Neocons and Israel that “you didn’t do it” if you are Iran. Alan, I remember hearing the same things said about Iraq–once we get Saddam out of the way and neutralize Iraq the Israelis will be able to make a better deal with the Palestinians because they won’t “feel threatened”. It’s all wishful thinking. And Israel may not want to talk about WMDs Iran probably does have, possibly because some of its people might not be crazy enough to want to be killed. So we might be starting out with a dishonest premise, i.e., that the Israelis are solely concerned with “nukes”. Which is why Obama may be miscalculating.