President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are about to meet. Obama will
be pressuring Israel to make major concessions to the Palestinians for a two state agreement. The assumptions are that such an agreement, which will significantly reduce the survivability of Israel, will turn Iran from its expressed intention to eradicate Israel, relieve Iran of its concerns about an Israeli preventive strike, and persuade it to abandon its creation of a nuclear arsenal.
I have searched the annals of history to find an example where appeasement as a foreign policy has succeeded in averting armed conflict. History supports the opposite view.
Does anyone believe that if Israel were to disappear the Iranians would give up their drive for nuclear status? Israel is merely a tool the Iranian government
uses to persuade their citizens to accept the huge investment required for nuclear
developement and the economic hardship that imposes. Iran wants to be the dominant
Muslim power and defender of the faith in world affairs. To realize that goal it
must possess "the bomb".
Reducing Israel to impotency will remove a powerful counterweight to Iran's drive
for hegemony.
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