Yediot Ahronot's Friday Headline: "The Confrontation"
Israeli Paper Details Alleged Tense Confrontation Between Netanyahu And U.S. Ambassador Over Obama’s Iran Policy: ‘Lightning and Sparks Flew’ -- The Blaze
Two new signs point to the deepening rift between the Obama administration and the Israeli government over how to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons efforts: a reported confrontation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a statement by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey that he doesn’t want to be “complicit” in an Israeli strike on Iran.
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Update: PM tells US 'time has run out' on Iran diplomacy -- Jerusalem Post
My Comment: The Israelis may now launch a strike (which I doubt) .... or wait and hope that there will be a change in the White House after November's elections. My money is on them waiting and praying that President Obama will be defeated in November, and a new foreign policy team takes over in the new year that will be more amicable to Israeli opinion. But even with a "new team", I doubt that a "Romney" administration will change America's Iran policy of relying on diplomacy and sanctions that quickly .... and time is something that Israel believes they no longer have.
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