The meeting in Washington earlier this week between U.S. President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel had one very clear result. Obama failed to convince the Israelis that he would protect them if Iran developed and possessed nuclear weapons or that he would do anything meaningful to keep the Iranians from becoming a nuclear power in the first place, and Netanyahu refused to place Israel’s security and survival in his hands and reserved Israel’s right to take whatever action it deemed necessary to protect itself and keep the Iranians from launching a nuclear attack against Israel, which they would most assuredly do as soon as they were able to.
