TV Report: Netanyahu Holding Elections So He Is Free To Deal With Iran In September-October -- Times Of Israel
Channel 2 commentator says PM is going to polls early so he can handle Iran threat when safely re-elected and with Obama paralyzed in presidential campaign
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling early elections so that he and his government will be free to deal with Iran’s nuclear program this September-October, one of Israel’s best-informed political commentators said on Friday night.
Netanyahu is set on Sunday to announce that he is dissolving parliament and calling elections for September 4 — a year ahead of schedule. In the weeks immediately after that vote, said well-connected commentator Amnon Abramovich on the top-rated Channel 2 news, Netanyahu will head a transition government at home and have no need to worry about voter sentiment, and he knows that President Barack Obama will be paralyzed by the US presidential campaign.
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My Comment: President Obama's Achilles Heel is the economy. An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in October .... a few weeks ahead of the U.S. Presidential elections .... will certainly take the focus away from issues that Mitt Romney would probably want to focus on. But would Israel want to do that .... to create such a crisis .... I certainly hope not.
Update: Israel's move toward early vote may shelve any attack on Iran -- L.A. Times
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