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Ivan Eland  Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Netanyahu Needs Some Tough Love

Posted: 03/02/2015

With all of the public sniping back-and-forth between American President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Netanyahu's circumvention of standard protocol for a visiting head of state to speak before Congress, watching or listening to the American media, one would think that the U.S.-Israeli relationship was about to break apart. Of course, at the end of the day, all of this sturm and drang about a speech probably isn't going to result in much U.S. policy change toward Israel. What may cause such a split is an agreement between the United States and Iran, Israel's arch-nemesis, to control its civilian atomic program so that it will be constrained from getting a nuclear bomb.

Although Netanyahu's speech is mainly intended to bolster his standing for what may be a close upcoming election in Israel, it has ostensibly been presented as a plea to convince the Congress and the American public that any agreement with Iran is weak-kneed and that a harder U.S. line toward that country is needed.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/netanyahu-needs-some-toug_b_6783290.html