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December 2, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=197477

Exposed by WikiLeaks

(Jerusalem Post) David Horovitz - The Obama administration, it is now clear for all to see, was not pressing a reluctant Netanyahu to make settlement-freeze and other concessions to the Palestinians because it truly believed this would be helpful in generating wider support for tackling Iran. The U.S., we now know courtesy of WikiLeaks, was being repeatedly urged by a succession of Arab leaders to smash an Iranian nuclear program they feared would destabilize the entire region and put their regimes at risk. Their priority was, and is, battering Ahmadinejad, not bolstering Abbas. Obama, that is, was not the prisoner of a misconception, convinced in absolute good faith that if he could deliver Israeli concessions at the negotiating table he might stand a greater chance of getting the Arabs on board for the battle with the mullahs. No, he had the diplomatic cables to prove that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was no obstacle to wide Arab backing, indeed wide Arab entreaties, for the toughest possible measures against Iran, emphatically including military action. What's not fair is to indicate to the Israeli prime minister, when it's patently untrue, that he ought to put aside some of his skepticism and take risks for peace because otherwise Israel might impede the U.S.'s capacity to thwart the genocidal enemy, Iran.

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