As more WikiLeaks documents are leaked to the media, the feeling grows that the American administration has abandoned its friends around the Middle East.

Documents show clearly that most leaders of Arab countries have pleaded with the administration to attack Iran and said that an Iranian nuclear weapon would be a disaster for the world.

Despite all this, Barak Obama has “tried to talk” to the Iranians.

In doing so, he has caused grave danger to the entire Middle East.

From this perspective, the leaked documents show the US president’s spirit of appeasement and defeatism.

This approach stems, among other things, from the accepting, liberal spirit that Obama was raised on and leaves Arab states, and Israel, to deal with Iran’s growing influence in the region.

In light of all this… Israel must push for quiet agreements with most of its Arab neighbors in all that pertains to dealing with the Iranian threat to the region, including Hamas and Hizbullah, and also how to deal with the nuclearlization of the state of the Ayatollahs.

In this context it would appear that Prime Minister Netanyahu should develop secret channels of communication with the Gulf states and with Saudi Arabia in which all sides put aside their traditional enmity and join forces against Iran.

It is clear that the Arab dictatorships will continue to voice harsh criticisms of Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians and will continue to demand an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria.

But in a reality in which beneath the surface the sides are cooperating, Jerusalem will be able to bite the political bullet in exchange for an Arab guarantee not to turn their anti-Israel statements into official UN declarations.

In this context it should be mentioned that such a process with the Arab world, with all its inherent dangers, would allow Israel for the first time to act more freely in the Semitic region that we live in. In addition, the quiet support by a large Sunni bloc to continue the status quo with the State of Israel could also arrest some of the anti-Semitic winds currently blowing in Turkey.

If Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s combative statements get a cold shoulder from most of the Arab League, he will moderate his remarks-not because he loves Israel, but because he wants to continue the process of drawing his country close not only to Iran, but also to the Arab states.

Independent diplomatic moves like the one mentioned above require clarity of thought and deep knowledge and understanding of the domestic political culture of our neighbors.

The time has come for Israel to stop dreaming of being the fifty-first star in the American flag and to come to terms with its existence in the rough neighborhood known as the Middle East.

Only internal reconciliation with the physical neighborhood in which we live will allow us better to understand the Arab leaders, and will allow us to prevent the next war without foregoing Israel’s vital national interests like Judea and Samaria.

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