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Oren: Iran Doesn't Take Obama's Military Option Seriously

(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - The rogue Iranian nuclear program represents a "multiple existential threat to Israel," Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., said in an interview. Were Iran to attain a "military nuclear capability," it would not need to perfect a missile delivery system in order to target Israel, but could do so via a simple container aboard a ship. Moreover, there was "nothing that would indicate" the Iranians believe President Obama would ever resort to force to prevent them from attaining the bomb. Israel "has the most to gain from a diplomatic solution," he emphasized. "But the meaning of Jewish sovereignty is that you don't outsource your fundamental security." Regarding Secretary of State Kerry's proposals for the Israeli-Palestinian talks, "no prime minister would enable our eastern border, the eastern border of a Palestinian state, to be guarded by an international force. With our experience going back to 1967 - to UNEF, and then UNIFIL, and now UNDOF - peacekeeping forces are very effective as long as there's no peace to keep." While there's been talk of an American force, "I don't see the American people sending another major military force to the Middle East....It would not be popular with the American public today to send a sizable force of American troops here."
2014-01-01 00:00:00
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