Israel in the nuclear dispute with Iran scaremongering with red felt

The United Nations General Assembly has seen some bizarre appearance. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev once waved with his right shoe at the lectern, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tried to look at George W. Bush in an exorcism, and now Benjamin Netanyahu has world politics in comic format operated. Was armed with a red felt pen, he is drawn to the UN in the fight against the Iranian bomb, and at the end you have to be happy that he's proud of the bulbous presented Cartoon bomb not grow as once at the Muhammad cartoons in a Turban left. The show-liner has brought him to the front pages of newspapers. But in fact the situation is too serious for such antics. The risk of nuclear weapons by Iran is in fact so great that it requires a global effort to curb. What can the world do not need it, is a präpotenter Premier of Israel, who alone draws red lines behind which lurks a war unchangeable. This Netanyahu have long-since the closest ally of U.S. President Barack Obama know to Chancellor Angela Merkel. With his appearance before the UN, he has now demonstrated that it is at least externally accessible neither arguments nor warnings. It puts the other hand, with an almost childlike defiance that has its equivalent in the bomb thumbs together paint pen.

Sanctions against Iran are effective

Accompanied by such antics, but even the most drastic threats seem unconvincing.Although Netanyahu has now for next spring, at the latest for the summer, set the time at which must act militarily if Iran still recoils. Considered the other way around that is, however, that the war has been canceled. The dreaded above all Obama option of an Israeli unilateralism before the U.S. presidential election in November, is off the table.Thus time was obtained for diplomatic solutions. This time should be used for two things: First, to increase the pressure on Iran. Even Israel's foreign ministry has now - unlike the head of government in New York - conceded that show the effect of sanctions and not only weaken the Iranian economy, but also the position of the regime. New sanctions, combined with positive incentives to rejoin the world community, the Tehran leadership but could still move to a face-saving withdrawal. Second, it would be important to include Israel in the diplomatic front against Iran. This however must recognize the government in Jerusalem that with the constant threat of military action alone less disturbed the enemy in Tehran as the friends around the world.It is time that Netanyahu takes his pen and draws a line under his policy of scaremongering.