Doesn’t take a lot of reading between the lines to figure out what was meant here. And I think it can be applied to both the Iranian nuke issue as well as the Hezbollah/Syria issue . . .
PM quotes Herzl: Don’t rely on help of foreigners
Published: 04.18.10, 11:11 / Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet meeting, “State visionary, Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl, said something that has captured me, ‘Do not rely on the help of foreigners, nor on benefactors. And do not expect stones to become soft because benefactors give humiliating donations.’”
Netanyahu noted that he was not familiar with this quotation, and concluded it: “A nation who wants to stand upright must rely on itself alone.” The cabinet marked 150 years since the birth of Zionist visionary, Theodor Herzl. (Roni Sofer)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3877447,00.html
No, they're speaking clearly, which is a good thing, and it sounds like they're willing to write off Obama's support. Now they have that final step remaining, the step of putting their faith not in themselves, but in God.