March 6, 2012
US-Israel Relations: Obama, Netanyahu Split Over 'Red Line' upon Iran
by Carol E. Lee as well as Jay Solomon
President Barack Obama as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlayed rounded off 3 hours during a White House Monday in a bid to unfreeze their frosty attribute as well as slight their differences over how to thwart Iran's chief ambitions.
U.S. officials pronounced which they believed a visit, which followed tougher talk upon Iran by Mr. Obama in recent days, has eased some of a immediate pressure from Israel for a troops set upon upon Iran. But a dual allies remained during contingency over obviously defining a "red lines" which Tehran contingency not cranky in developing a chief program.
Mr. Netanyahu as well as some of Israel's staunchest supporters in Congress have been dire Mr. Obama to set as a red line Iran's development of a chief "capability," a rsther than loose definition which many Western diplomats believe Tehran has already achieved. Indeed, crafting such policy could severely enlarge a calls for an imminent attack upon Iran.
Pressure for a White House to take this position is likely to enlarge in a coming weeks as U.S. lawmakers, backed by Washington's many successful pro-Israel lobbying group, find to pass a fortitude defining U.S. foreign policy along these lines.
U.S. officials, however, insisted Monday which Mr. Obama will not go beyond his broader policy: which a U.S. is committed to gripping Iran from obtaining a chief weaponthrough diplomacy, sanctions and, as a final r! esort, f orce. Setting a red line of "nuclear capability" would be too ambiguous as well as open to opposite interpretations, these officials said.
They pronounced which a U.S. believed Iran was rounded off a year away from being able to grasp a chief weapon.
At a begin of his meeting with Mr. Obama, Mr. Netanyahu stressed Israel's right to unilaterally set upon Iran, observant a Jewish state contingency "remain master of a fate." Mr. Obama, who has attempted to tamp down talk of war, reiterated his welfare to finalise a issue diplomatically. "We understand a costs of any troops action, as well as I want to assure both a American people as well as a Israeli people which you have been in constant as well as close consultation," Mr. Obama said.
The meeting between a dual leaders was seen as a key impulse in U.S.-Israel relations. Messrs. Obama as well as Netanyahu have had a moving attribute over a final 3 years as well as officials upon both sides hoped a review would repair relations.
But U.S. officials pronounced they made advance in a two-hour sit-down in a Oval Office, followed by lunch.
Mr. Netanyahu was scheduled to speak Monday night before a American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a absolute pro-Israel lobby group. Israeli officials pronounced a budding apportion was to call for aggressive brand new steps to forestall Iran from advancing a chief work.
Carol E. Lee during carol.lee@wsj.com as well as Jay Solomon during jay.solomon@wsj.com
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