>From talking to people who used to work in the US State Department (Marv probably knows who I'm talking about), I get the idea that the US Administration is really worried that Israel will decide to unilaterally bomb Iran.
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> ==================================
> Netanyahu's election gives the US a better chance to force
> the Israelis to
> bend a bit to reach a "deal" with a Palestinian government
> which includes
> Hamas - the idea being, of course, that you need a de
> Gaulle to withdraw
> from Algeria and a Nixon to go to China because they won't
> draw fire from
> the right for doing so that a liberal politician accused of
> "treason" would.
> The US badly needs a Palestinian state, or at least the
> appearance of one,
> to contain Iran, to shore up the Saudi and Egyptian
> governments, and to
> reduce the influence of radical Islamists elsewhere,
> notably in Afghanistan
> and Pakistan. Obama's talking-to will likely be aimed at
> splitting the
> Netanyahu wing from the Lieberman one on the Israeli
> right.
>
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