Pick a year .. any year between 1992 and 2020.
Funny, for decades Israel bought all their oil from Iran.. and Iran used to be home to 250,000 Jews ...
For Rabin, Iran Was a Reason to Solve Israel's Other Problems. For Netanyahu, It's Been an Excuse to Ignore Them.
www.haaretz.com
In the summer of 1995, I heard Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speak to a group of peace activists. If the audience expected warm idealism, they didn't get it. In his smoke-scarred voice, Rabin gave a rationale for peacemaking that was all strategic realism. The only "new Middle East" he described was one in which the dangers had shifted. Israel had to resolve the conflicts close at hand, I recall him saying, so that it could focus on greater threats further off – such as Iran.