Netanyahu says Israel may have to confront Iran

[JDPriestly]

28. Netanyahu is not helping Israel.

Obama knows what he is doing in the Middle East.

The death of our Ambassador to Libya was a terrible thing, but in the overall chess game that Obama is playing in the region, it was a momentary, if galling, setback.

The days of the belligerency of the current government in Iran are numbered in my opinion.

Netanyahu will really harm Israel if he doesn't end his practice of throwing temper tantrums. He does not know better than Obama. Israel by itself certainly does not have the military power to fight Iran. And the US is not ready to confront Iran. (Though I think we will be before all that long.)

No matter what Netanyahu thinks, Iran has to wait.

Iran needs to understand that it is not the only country in the Middle East that is being asked to cooperate with the rest of the world on ending nuclear proliferation.

And I want to repeat as I have so often on DU that I support Israel. I just don't support Netanyahu's childish temper tantrums.

The US has military power all over the Middle East. If Iran tried to attack, Israel, Iran would be finished and the Iranian military surely knows that.