Obama might go along with this to get re-elected.
Agree 100%. The most plausible scenario is that Obama trades passive assent for an Israeli strike on Iran for Israel agreeing to what would have been previously considered “unacceptable” Palestinian agreement. Arab states in the region are scared sh**less by the Mullahs now, let alone with nukes. Outside of public wailing, there won’t be any private remorse for a denuked and maybe even a dethroned mullahcracy. Obama then cashes in on the “historic” (isn’t that his favorite term?) peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. It’s a win-win for Barry: the Iranian problem is settled on his watch, but at no direct expense/threat to the US, and he is hailed as the “great peacemaker”.
I’ll agree that this is totally against his nature, but the political folks surrounding him are running out of options. They stand to have their domestic agenda stalled, if not reversed/defunded, after the midterms. And, there’s no other way he can turn the economic tide around. Seems crazy, I’ll admit, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see this roll out in some similar fashion. We certainly seem to be stocking up assets in the region. And previous administrations (eg, Bush 41) have manipulated existential threats against the Israelis to extract behaviors that seemingly were not in their best interest.
...or because he works for the King of Saudi Arabia.