Opinion  Sever Plocker
Israel should be grateful to Obama
Sever Plocker
Published: 05.04.15, 23:41
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1. So latest spin now is Iran is looking for a way to cease
Alan ,   SA   (04.06.15)
Atomic Bomb Manufacture Honestly who believes this? Like the waterfront property in Arizona story
2. Future hard to predict
zechariah   (04.06.15)
As of now deal maybe stabilizing but a decade on threats to the Jews and Humanity remain.Post Shoah Survivalism is paramount and underground cities cannected by tunnels ought be built now .That is Static Defence and has to be combined with Deterrant Capacity.
3. Obama's Help?
David Gershon ,   Haifa, Israel   (04.06.15)
Mr Plocker, You must be joking or you do not understand the situation at all. The Iranians outsmarted a US president who does not grasp what the world outside the US is like. He failed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lybia and ISIS for a starter. He is repeating Clinton's debacle in North Korea who also misunderstood the cleverness of his adversaries. And the Iranians are more sophisticated than the North Koreans. You should stick to commenting about economic issues and leave commentaries on world affairs to people who understand the international scene.
4. This analysis is flawed
Alan ,   Canada   (04.06.15)
There was no deliberate confusion & camouflage at Lausanne to surprise us with a good outcome, as the writer claims. As Obama absolutely needed a decisive outcome of the talks, the two parties concocted two versions of the clauses of the so called agreement, one for each country's internal political needs. The hasty final sprint to finish Lausanne on deadline (almost)helped Obama avoid one of three most distasteful options: ---set the humiliating umpteen new deadline. ---loose foreign policy decision making to the Republican Senate which has been itching to impose new sanctions on Iran. ---be compelled to exercise the military option he definitively wants to avoid. The Lausanne deal was botched in haste to ease political pressure on the Democratic White House. Failure to reach a real deal has been temporarily camouflaged into a proclaimed success while the Iranians immediately contest that they have agreed to the most important clauses. Regarding the assumed decision of the Iranians of having dropped the plan to become a nuclear power: how can anyone come up on this with any certainty? If that was so, why have they been so insistent on keeping all those useless extra centrifuges. Why are they still refusing to let the UN inspectors to talk to the nuclear scientists (it is not even a clause in the deal). To sustain their hegemonic ambitions, the Ayatollahs understand that only power can possibly overcome the historical & religious hostility of the Sunni Arab countries. Conventional weapons are not sufficient to impress these countries. The writer notes that the US succeeded to remove the chemical weapon threat carried by Syria. This has not budged Bashir Assad & he is now using an other chemical (chlorine based) to fight his opponents.
5. 6000 centrifuges for peacful resarch???
Beary White ,   Norway   (04.06.15)
... ....What happen after 10 years, when Sotero sit on the other side of the table?? I think the author has missed some important elements
6. Agreed
Ed McElhaney ,   Overland Park, KS   (04.06.15)
I agree to an extent. I am enough of a cynic not to trust any side of this not to bend the agreement as far as possible to their own (overt or covert) advantage, especially the Iranians, but truthfully, the GOP majority in the US is no more trustworthy. I hope that the other parties in the five negotiating countries will take an active role in the ongoing verification process. We can always walk back to the edge of war, we have proved that on numerous occasions. It takes real nerve to back away from it with ones national dignity intact.
7. Iran: "Israel's destruction is non negotiable"
C   (04.06.15)
obama refuses to demand of iran that final negotiations include iran's recognition of israel's sovereignty.
8. we are not grateful to the flim flam artist
C   (04.06.15)
israel's national security is much more precarious today than it was before obama arrived on the scene. anyone who believes that iran has given up its nuclear weapons program lives in lala land.
9. I agree
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (04.06.15)
About time someone agrees with Obama. He got rid of a significant amount of Chemical weapons in Syria without firing a shot and brought the Iranians to the negotiating table. I agree it might not be the best deal, however war would of been horrible with guaranteed unintended consequences. Just look at the situation in Iraq, in less than 30 days the US rolled into Baghdad like a freight train destroying the Iraqi Army and government with less than 200 fatalities considering 150,000 soldiers invaded the country, however after the country collapsed the soldiers trained to defeat armies became an untrained police force trying to control a population and an insurgency with disastrous results that are still being felt today. Iraq is officially a broken country that will take decades to recover. Thank the neo-cons for the middle east mess that it is not Obama
10. Incumbant PM's folly and rants...
N ,   N   (04.06.15)
are a grave danger for Israel. Israel's founders were brave and reasonable. He's neither.
11. Unsupported speculation
Shalom Freedman ,   Jerusalem Israel   (04.06.15)
This article is unsupported speculation. It does not explain why the Iranians have fought so hard to hide inspection from Fordo and Arak. It does not explain why they have insisted on attaining an enrichment capacity, and on keeping enriched material with Iran. It does not explain their advanced missile program. It seems to me a clever speculation that is most probably wrong.
12. Obama pushed Israel to be aware...
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (04.06.15)
that her survival depends on G-D's help on being united and strong. Many thanks Obama,you did Israel a big favour..
13. "he removed the threat"?
jack bauer   (04.06.15)
im not sure what sever is toking, but it must be strong stuff.... when the iranians say death to israel, death to america, a curse on the jews.... what do you think they mean? let me point out that it is not goodwill.
14. This author also talked about "disappearance of the Likud"
Jake   (04.06.15)
before the last election, and how Netanyahu would prove to be a burden to the Likud and would harm the Likud's performance in the election, and that even the Likud voters would vote for other parties because of him. Trust this author's analyses and believe his predictions at your own peril.
15. Plocker,why the superfast centrifuges
EZEKIAL HAIM ,   LONDON UK   (04.06.15)
Svever Plocker should research his article properly before writing it.It would be so nice if he was right.All his article is based on wishful thinking and speculation.However two issues deserves serious thought and that is for what purpose did the Iranians develop super-fast centrifuges and the second is why do they want to manufacture plutonium.Both of these facts contradict a peaceful aim and they happened recently.I think that Iran wants to be a force to be reckoned with .They want Shiasim to be a prominent Islamic power as traditionally it has been the underdog of Islam and they want to do it by matching the Pakistani Sunni atom bomb and take it further to become leaders of Shia Muslims worldwide and threaten their enemies with the bomb.
16. Israel should be grateful to Obama
Danny   (04.06.15)
Thanks to Obama that Israel got Netanyahu back.
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