MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Barak Ravid, Ha'aretz, August 26, 2012
Israel believes the report backs up claims that Tehran has sped up its nuclear project, while the White House insists that findings don’t change the working assumption that there is still time to resolve the crisis diplomatically.
Israel and the United States are split over the significance of a new International Atomic Energy Agency report expected to accuse Iran of installing hundreds of new centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility near Qom [.....]
Also see:
Seeking to cool war fever over Iran
By David Ignatius, Washington Post, August 21, 2012
[.....] many leaders of Israel’s national-security establishment, past and present, appear to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s consideration of a military strike. Despite this internal Israeli split, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has strongly endorsed Netanyahu and chided President Obama for taking an independent U.S. position, saying at a campaign rally Monday: “The president throwing Bibi Netanyahu under the bus was totally unacceptable. Him negotiating for Israel, our friend, totally unacceptable, in my view."
”Here’s the situation in the negotiations Romney evidently dislikes: [.....]
Note: Ignatius' first link is a good Walter Pincus piece from August 20 on Netanyahu's recent banging of the Iran drum and some of the possible reasons behind it..