Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) purportedly told House Democrats in a private meeting Tuesday that Israel may strike Iran if sanctions on the country fail to prevent development of nuclear technology. Obama told the caucus, according to an attendee, "Nobody said this to me directly but I get the feeling from my talks that if the sanctions don’t work Israel is going to strike Iran." Others in the room recall this as well. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-to-house.html MORE: Now that the Bush administration is engaged in diplomatic efforts with Iran, many Israeli officials are worried the US is getting soft on Iran, prompting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to travel to the US this week to meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Barak's office released a statement saying "a policy that consists of keeping all options on the table must be maintained." Another attendee at the meeting of House Democrats recalls Obama saying that the good news is that Obama got the sense that the Arab states understand just how destabilizing a nuclear Iran would be -- a "game changer," Obama said -- because they know Israel would probably strike and that would be bad for everyone.
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Israel stated that, and regardless of what Obama or McCain says, Israel is an independent country that will act how it wants to without reflecting on our presidential candidates.
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The Iranian president seems like a nice guy-as long as we keep being nice and talking to him everything should turn out fine. Israel is evil and need's to give all the land they have won during Arab aggression back to the Arabs so they can be attacked again. (I'm trying to think like a liberal) Back to thinking like a rational person.---I have two bottles of champagne set aside for the day Israel takes care of the Iranian nuclear problem.
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I still don't understand why Iran is a threat to Israel. Israel wants to be the only power in the middle east, isn't that it?? Obama never stated what ur writing
