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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Senior members of his administration have also advised Israel that it would be unwise to take action against Iran by itself with Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, saying that Israeli strikes would only set back Iran’s “nuclear programme” by a couple of years.
John Chipman, the head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British think-tank, said yesterday that he concurred with Gen Dempsey’s assessment, adding that the assurances Mr Obama has given in recent days meant that Israeli military action was now unlikely this year.
Mr Netanyahu, however, made no commitment to his host except to say that he had not yet decided whether to order air strikes.
The prime minister’s national security adviser, the only other Israeli official to attend the meeting with Mr Obama, has suggested that this moment of reckoning is now close at hand.
“Now we will have to sit down with ourselves, digest what was said by the Americans and decide,” Yaakov Amidror told reporters.
Mr Netanyahu’s intelligence chiefs have reportedly concluded that Israel has a window of just six to nine months before unilateral military action against Iran ceases to be effective, an analysis some observers say is deliberately overstated.
During his trip to Washington, Mr Netanyahu repeatedly stated that the Holocaust had taught him not to entrust the fate of the Jewish people to others, an argument that appears to favour the prospect of Israeli action.
Israel has given only a lukewarm welcome to a decision by Iran’s six negotiating partners – Britain, the United States, France, Germany, China and Russia – to accept an offer from Tehran to resume talks. The Israeli government is concerned that Iran’s gesture is a ruse to give it diplomatic cover to press ahead with its nuclear programme while making the case for military action harder to make because negotiations are under way.
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, echoed Israel’s scepticism, while insisting that sanctions remained the best form of international pressure on Tehran. “I think Iran is continuing to use double speak,” he said.
“That’s the reason why we must remain extremely firm on the sanctions we have decided upon, which are from my point of view the best way to avoid a military option that could have immeasurable consequences.”
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