Obama and Ahmadinejad: Increasing the chances of the 12th Imam
The truly horrifying consequence of Obama's proposal to push Israel back to the 1967 borders would be to greatly increase the chances of Ahmadinejad's dream coming true; a huge conflict that would bring about the return of the 12th Imam. Well, the Imam won't come but the war will be bad enough.
With the 1967 borders Israel would have to be ready to fight an all out war with little or no warning. That will lead to a hair trigger response by the Israelis to any perceived threat. That's what happened in 1967 when Israel launched a preemptive strike against the Arabs.
By trying to coerce Israel to accept borders that provide no strategic buffer while the Palestinians and their allies, like Ahmadinejad, are calling for the destruction of Israel Obama is (presumably unintentionally) dramatically increasing the risk of a major war in the Middle East. A war that Ahmadinejad would like because in his mind it might trigger the return of the 12th Imam and a Muslim resurgence.
Any such war would be a bloodbath for the Palestinians that Obama seems so eager to help. Even worse, however, should the Arab attackers manage to attain even a little success it would bring about the very real chance that much of the Middle East would be reduced to radioactive rubble.
Israel has the bomb, many of them in fact, and the ability to deliver them to every major Arab city. If faced with an Arab army racing toward any major Israeli city do we really want to see what might happen? Dropping the nukes on the Arab army would kill a lot of Israelis too, those pesky 1967 borders being so close to Israeli cities.
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