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Team Bibi: "They are grimly accepting the reality Mitt won’t win.”
Benjamin Netanyahu vs. Barack Obama...Even if he had intended to remain mum, U.S. politics have outpaced Netanyahu, who is now convinced that Obama will prevail in November, according to a former top ranking U.S. intelligence official who recently visited Israel to huddle with top Likud security officials in Netanyahu’s orbit.
“They are grimly accepting the reality Mitt won’t win,” the former official said.
...Bradley Burston, a columnist with the liberal Haaretz newspaper, thinks Netanyahu is growing increasingly nervous, in part because Obama seems more likely to win reelection now than before the conventions.
“[T]here’s been a certain air of desperation in the ways Netanyahu has continued to pursue this policy,” he wrote. “The desperation has grown in the face of the opposition of growing and already large numbers of respected current and former Israeli security, nuclear, diplomatic and intelligence experts to any attack on Iran at this time, and more pointedly, against a unilateral Israeli offensive. … And, in particular, when Barack Obama’s campaign appears to be surging.”
...Netanyahu, they say, sees war with a nuclear-armed Iran as a 21st century holocaust likely to kill as many Jews as the 6 million exterminated by the Nazis — a view shared by many in the West Wing and Foggy Bottom. But that doesn’t mean they like the way Netnayahu presses his case.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81150.html
“They are grimly accepting the reality Mitt won’t win,” the former official said.
...Bradley Burston, a columnist with the liberal Haaretz newspaper, thinks Netanyahu is growing increasingly nervous, in part because Obama seems more likely to win reelection now than before the conventions.
“[T]here’s been a certain air of desperation in the ways Netanyahu has continued to pursue this policy,” he wrote. “The desperation has grown in the face of the opposition of growing and already large numbers of respected current and former Israeli security, nuclear, diplomatic and intelligence experts to any attack on Iran at this time, and more pointedly, against a unilateral Israeli offensive. … And, in particular, when Barack Obama’s campaign appears to be surging.”
...Netanyahu, they say, sees war with a nuclear-armed Iran as a 21st century holocaust likely to kill as many Jews as the 6 million exterminated by the Nazis — a view shared by many in the West Wing and Foggy Bottom. But that doesn’t mean they like the way Netnayahu presses his case.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81150.html
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