"Obama is moving quickly to create a new axis consisting of Turkey (72 million), Iran (69 million), Syria (20 million) and Pakistan ( 172 million) that will dominate the ME in cooperation with the US. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel don’t like it one bit. Can they come together to protect their necks and neck of the woods?" - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

"DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that their host is fired up to be the first US president in decades of close friendship and cooperation to clash openly with Israel and the bulk of US Jewry. Oblivious to Israel’s claim of US support for its security in a hostile regional environment, Barack Obama is expected to squeeze the Netanyahu government hard for immediate engagement on the Middle East conflict without further delay. According to our sources, the White House staff is working at top speed on options for imposing its will. Peres and Netanyahu will be informed that Washington is setting up two trilateral peace commissions to hammer out peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians and Israel with the Syrians." - Sean McBride

"US officials in both chairs will intercede with their own ideas to prevent them running into deadlock on disputed issues. DEBKAfile’s sources confirm that the Obama administration will not spare the whip to force the parties into line. The US president and his top advisers are convinced that the Palestinian problem is the main obstacle to accommodations for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. Defense secretary Robert Gates and national security adviser Gen. James Jones are the leading advocates of this proposition, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton more skeptical but ready to back the president’s Middle East determination to place Israel in the first line of fire." - Sean McBride

Sounds like political suicide. - Aaron deMello

The Israeli government has Obama hemmed in on all sides from within the White House, so I doubt that is has anything to worry about. Both major political parties are more loyal to AIPAC than to any American presidential administration. - Sean McBride

Interesting premise, if only for the acknowledgment of Turkey in the mix. Given the well known intelligence of Turkish involvement in Pakistan's acquisition of nuclear capabilities from North Korea and the west - go back and reread all the Sibel Edmonds interviews - it hints tantalizingly of a shared common interest between the neocons and the Turks. Ottoman 2.0? - Cole Jolley

Cole -- good to see that you are up to speed on the Sibel Edmonds materials. - Sean McBride