AMERICAN THINKER
by Shoula Romano Horing
June 6, 2014

President Obama’s West Point foreign policy speech has given Israel both good and bad news. The good news for Israel is that the president has given up on the idea of achieving a so called “peace” deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians during his presidency, but the bad news is that Obama has no intention of ever attacking the Iranian nuclear program militarily even as a last resort and will never support an Israeli attack. Consequently, ongoing useless and endless negotiations, as well as meaningless diplomatic agreements, will lead to a nuclear Iran unless it is stopped by Israel or the U.S. Congress.

Obama’s commencement speech outlining his foreign policy doctrine confirmed at last what Israel and the Gulf States as well as Iran have all suspected, that the president was bluffing when he repeatedly stated that all options are on the table to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, including the military option. He has used the idea of such an attack as a bargaining chip against the Israeli prime minister who perceives that protecting the Jewish state against a nuclear holocaust initiated by Iran to be his ultimate responsibility. He has been bluffing to woo and pressure Israel to make major concessions to the Palestinians in any peace deal. But when he recently realized that there is no chance for any major breakthrough between Israelis and the Palestinians during his presidency, he showed his hand at last regarding Iran.

The fact that in his West Point speech Obama chose not to even mention the so-called “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians, marks quite a telling departure for this president, who told the UN General Assembly last September as he outlined U.S. foreign policy priorities during the remainder of his presidency that “America’s diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues; Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Arab Israeli conflict”. 

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