ISRAEL AND BARACK OBAMA

Those who fear that Israel will attack Iran over its nuclear program should be aware that the Israelis do not give a step in that direction without the permission of U.S. President Barack Obama, who is seeking reelection in November.

Obama, however, insisted that the White House will not only Israel to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb when it met on Monday in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And both Obama and Israeli Prime Minister believe that if Iran completes its nuclear program desnivelaría the balance of power that exists in the Middle East, where Saudi Arabia is another major player with its huge oil resources.

The possibility of a new Shoah (Holocaust) terrifies Israelis since late October 2005 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said "Israel must be wiped off the map", although an Islamic Web Wikipendia point out that such statements were poorly translated by the Iranian news agency.

"Israel will not attack Iran without agreeing on this point with the United States," he said in an email sent to Telam the Head of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mario Sznajder.

Obama noted that before using military action against Iran is necessary to try to achieve a diplomatic agreement.

This statement by the U.S. President was welcomed by the Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a time when Tehran agreed to re-negotiate with so-called Group of Six (USA, UK, France, Russia and Germany), which seeks an "impasse" with Tehran nuclear.

"Israel insists that Iran's military nuclearity is not an exclusively Israeli problem, but concerns the entire world, which would place the option of unilateral attack as a direct contradiction to a long-term policy that Netanyahu has been doing since 1996" Sznajder said.

Israeli Prime Minister seems to understand that America is not the time for good policies to engage in another war, when missing eight months to the presidential election Nov. 6.

Analysts agree that an attack on Iran could drive oil prices, which immediately damage the prospects for the U.S. economy.

Since a speech before the U.S. Congress in 1996, Netanyahu has often compared the Iranian regime and its nuclear program with the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazis in Germany in 1933.

Obama, who is considered by some analysts as one of the most pro-Israel president in history, was clear in his response to reporters: "America will always cover their backs on Israel."

However, both leaders had some differences with respect to the ability to detect any breakthrough in Tehran to make a nuclear bomb, because Tel Aviv believed that it might not be detectable.

In an editorial published in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, analyst Hanoch Daum said "do not trust Obama" and said Israel "can not have a president to protect Israeli interests at the expense of their own personnel interests."

For Daum, U.S. President faces two alternatives: "One would be to eliminate the Iranian nuclear program and avoid a future threat that could hit Israel, rising oil prices through the roof and causing a serious blow to the U.S. economy."

"The second would be to adjust the penalties, but in practice Obama returns to blind eyes the progress of Iran's nuclear program has entered a point of no return, while preserving the stability of its management and win reelection, but could jeopardize Israel's future, "he added.

Although Obama was willing to wait to make effects of economic sanctions, U.S. bellicose Republicans, always when talking about the issue of national security, say the president does not defend well to Israel.

According to Israeli daily Haaretz, during his visit to Washington Netanyahu asked the defense secretary, Leon Panetta, to approve the sale of equipment needed to bomb Iran.

The Israeli premier requested the acquisition of advanced air refueling and bunker buster bombs GBU-28, necessary to destroy the main centers of Iranian nuclear program.

These weapons may be used to attack Fordow facility near the city of Qom, which Tehran carried out uranium enrichment, partially built inside a mountain. Also attack the plant at Natanz, south of the capital, which is eight meters below ground level, protected by several layers of cement.

There is no doubt that diplomacy and economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the European Union against Iran, are away for the moment the possibility of an Israeli attack on the Persian country.

However, the situation can change rapidly in the Middle East since Israel destroyed suddenly in 1981 a reactor in Iraq and bombed suspected Syrian nuclear facility in 2007.