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Israel prefers clarity in Tehran

WORLD NEWS: "Some Israelis Prize Ahmadinejad's Role," by Yaroslav Trofimov, Wall Street Journal, 18 June 2009.

He does simplify things for an Israel sounding the alarm.

Mossad, according to this article, says Iran has the bomb by 2014--all things being equal.

So the careful, soft-spoken Iranian president would complicate things, just as our own similarly gifted president does.

The thing is, if you're Israel and you think Obama, gifted politician that he is, will likely win re-election--all things being equal, you get awfully tempted to make certain things decidedly unequal.

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