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By David M. Weinberg
Obama’s reelection means that Olmert is going to run against Netanyahu with Obama’s backing, that Palestinian statehood is bearing down on us, and that an American “grand bargain” with Iran at Israel’s expense is possible.
Published in Israel Hayom [1], November 7, 2012.
I’d like to believe that the reelection of Barack Obama means nothing significant for US-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” – as Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom argued on Israel Radio this morning. But Shalom is putting a pretty face on a forbidding situation.
Obama’s reelection means that Ehud Olmert is going to run against Netanyahu in the upcoming January 2013 Israeli election. It means that Obama is going to intervene aggressively in our election to boost Olmert. It means that a push for immediate Palestinian statehood is back on the international agenda. And it most worryingly of all, it means that an American “grand bargain” with the Iranians, possibly at Israel’s expense, is on the table.
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