The Obama administration's off-the-record malevolence to Israel
You will recall that on Monday, I blogged an article by Arab affairs expert Ehud Yaari, in which he discounted the information exposed by former Arafat aide Mark Perry in a Foreign Policy article over the weekend. Jonathan Tobin believes that Yaari was too quick to dismiss Perry's piece, and that in any event, it tells us a lot about how an Obama administration might treat Israel in a second term. Yaari seems to infer that because Perry has no love for Israel, his effort to publicize the Israel-Azeri alliance is to undermine it. Yaari also appears to believe that any story whose premise is based on the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran is similarly ill-intentioned. But that brings us back to what I have always thought was just as important as the idea of the air bases themselves: why the Obama administration leaked it in the first place.Good point.
Rather than breaking our heads on the question of just how far the Azeris are prepared to go in defying Iran for the sake of their friendship with Israel (the answer to which is as much a mystery to Yaari as it is to me), we would all do better to consider why it was so important for the State Department and the White House that this friendship be placed in jeopardy. Those pondering what a second term for President Obama would mean to Israel need to think more about the leakers’ motives than those of Perry or the editors at Foreign Policy.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, Iranian nuclear threat, Mark Perry
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:14 AM
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