COMMENTARY | Rumors that Israel is poised to attack Iran's nuclear installations, exacerbated by the recent test of a Jericho long range missile capable of hitting that country, have gotten Obama administration officials worried.
They are not worried Iran will develop a nuclear weapon or if the administration is it is not saying. A military official recently stated the Obama administration is worried Israel will strike Iran without consulting it first.
There is a good reason for Israel to attack Iran without asking permission of President Barack Obama. He would try to stop it.
Mind, defense and foreign policy officials suggest there are good reasons for Israel not to attack Iran alone. A strike force would have to hit multiple targets, some hardened inside mountains, and would likely incur heavy losses. Israel would then be faced with a two-front war, with Hezbollah and perhaps Syria in the north and Hamas in the south.
There is, however, an excellent reason why Israel should attack Iran. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon and places it on a missile or even smuggles it close to Israel on a ship, it will use that weapon to commit genocide against the Jewish people.
Obama has placed himself in an unfortunate position by acting hostile and even petty toward Israel while practicing appeasement with Iran. A more sensible American government, say that of President George W. Bush, could talk to Israel, dissuade it from doing something desperate, but also reassure the tiny Jewish state that should an attack be necessary, American forces would participate. Obama has thrown away that capability. Israel has no assurance that if it came down to it, American military forces would attack Iran on the behalf of Israel and the Islamist country's other neighbors. So, as it has many times before, Israel finds itself alone.
But Iran should take warning. Israel is at its most dangerous when pushed to the wall and finding itself without credible friends. The shade of Gamal Abdul Nasser might tell them what happened when he thought he had Israel in a vise of steel, only to have his armed forces all but obliterated inside a week.
Unfortunately this means that a match is going to be set to the Middle East, likely just in time for the 2012 elections. So much for smart diplomacy.
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