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14 Aug, 2012

Get Ready for a Catastrophic War: Israel Likely to Strike Iran Before November Elections – Alternet

What the Israeli leader worries most about is the possibility that a second-term Obama would feel much freer not to commit U.S. forces on Israel’s side. A second-term Obama also might use U.S. leverage to force Israeli concessions on thorny issues relating to Palestine.

If preventing Obama from getting that second term is also part of Netanyahu’s calculation, then he also surely knows that even a minor dustup with Iran, whether it escalates or not, would drive up the price of gasoline just before the election — an unwelcome prospect for Team Obama.

via Get Ready for a Catastrophic War: Israel Likely to Strike Iran Before November Elections | Alternet.