"Un cadeau providentiel" à Netanyahou, par Jean Daniel NOUVELOBS.COM | 16.06.2009 | 11:12

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" A providential present " to Netanyahou, by Jean Daniel

NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 16.06.2009 ¦ 11:12
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By WAITING The speech was announced by Benjamin Netanyahou of this Sunday, June 14th, we can already say that it will have received as a providential present, the result of the Iranian elections.
We know for a long time that there are " objective alliances " between the enemies. Extremes have the virtue to join before claiming to exterminate. But the case of the Iranian and Israeli governments becomes exemplary.
Because what there is of private individual in the victory of Amadinedjab, it is that she was taken away at the conclusion of an election campaign where all the provocative subjects of the Iranian president were radically run.
Doubtless, his inspired talent and the lack of charisma of his main opponent they are for something there. Doubtless also, is advisable it not to forget that the Shiite heat, the nationalism, the Persian president, the nuclear patriotism and the antiZionist hatred are a part of fundamental principles of the revolution inaugurated and impulsed by the ayatollah Khomeiny from the previous history. But each of the interpreters had adapted the initial message under the circumstances. This time, there is indeed an adaptation but in the sense of the radicalism. In the Barak Obama's tense hand, Amadinejab answers chief of state - democratically elected - by requirements which can look like threats.
Exactly what we called " the Iranian threat " inspires a holy terror, not only to the Israelis but to Emirates, to Saudi Arabia and to Egypt - without speaking about Sunni populations of Iraq. Contrary to what we can read almost everywhere, this threat was by no means under estimated by Barak Obama or by his European allies, notably by France.
But the question was to know if the " Iranian priority " had to darken all the others. It is on this point that the differences which separated both camps are going to deteriorate today. For the Israelis, it is advisable, especially after the victory of Amadinejab, to dedicate itself to the defence against the Iranian threat and to make stop the pressures in favour of both Palestinian and Israeli states. For Barak Obama, as for his Sunni Arabic allies and his British, Russian allies, and UN, it is only with one Palestinian the beginning of regulation of the problem that a Moslem assembling can come true against a leader of state who claims to embody the Islam.
We are going henceforth and again to envisage in Washington, at the same moment the fear of seeing the Israelis bombarding some Iranian nuclear sites and the study of a spectacular intensification of the penalties against Iran.
Barak Obama has never excluded the eventuality of this hypothesis. But it is in this test that he at need to count on all his allies and on all his partisans.
Jean Daniel