Netanyahu has embraced an extreme view that obliges the
U.S., in particular, to restrain him, and prevent him from initiating
hostilities that have far-reaching tragic consequences, not least for
Israel. To the extent that Netanyahu is truly caught up in his own
apocalyptic fevers, he is a dangerous man — after all, if you believe
you’re a Jew facing Nazi Germany, then any diplomacy amounts to
appeasement, and you feel obliged to act militarily. The fact that Iran
has not actually initiated a program to build nuclear weapons is
irrelevant; they always could, and that in itself is intolerable.
Israel, right now, has no meaningful role to play in resolving the Iran
nuclear standoff. Obama appears to have recognized that…
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