An Israeli October Surprise for
Obama?
An attack on Iran before a U.S. election with the goal of
dooming the incumbent president?
by Robert Parry
Global Research,
August 18, 2012
A pressing foreign policy
question of the U.S. presidential race is whether Israel might exploit this
politically delicate time to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites and force President
Obama to join the attack or face defeat at the polls, a predicament with similarities
to one President Carter faced in 1980.
There is doubt in some quarters that Israel’s Likud government of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu would time an attack on Iran
in the weeks before a U.S.
election with the goal of dooming the incumbent Democratic president, Barack
Obama, or forcing his hand to commit American military might in support of
Israel.
But there was a precedent 32 years ago when another Likud
government had grown alienated from the Democratic president and found itself
in a position where it could help drive him from office by covertly
assisting his Republican rivals in another crisis involving Iran.
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