Guardian: Reports that the Israeli lobby is on course to challenge the Obama Administration when it comes to its on policy on the Middle East. In pure political terms Obama will not win this debate, he is not Nixon and he cant go Iran before his re-election run in 2012. The Israeli Lobby is very powerful in American Politics and in Democratic Politics it is very powerful. Lets recall that there are a lot of older Americans who live in Florida, they also happen to be Jewish. If Obama is seen as selling Israel out he will have major problems in 2012 in Florida, also his willingness to talk to Cuba could cost him Cuban - American votes. There are only so many pressure groups and lobby groups you can lose before you become a loser in Presidential Politics. Also Obama might need Israel to do the dirty deed when it comes to Iran, in other words Obama might find he trapped by his own words, just look at his roll back of the torture memos. Obama is no political fool, the Liberal left wing might want to go over the cliff, but Obama I think still wants a second term, no second term all his agenda could be thrown out of the window by the next Administration.
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