Just as he is putting pressure on India not to react to Paki terrorism Mr. Obama is putting pressure on Israel to accept a two state solution, stop settlement building and allow Palestinians to control half of Jerusalem. Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu offered to accept a Palestinian state provided it is demilitarised, Israel is accepted as a Jewish state and the international community gives ironclad guarantee of Israel's security which would mean real troops on the ground. These are very reasonable requests. A separate state for all Palestinians with its own government to look after its people, increase trade with the world and protected from any attack by Israel by the presence of foreign troops. This could bring untold prosperity for the Palestinians and permanent peace to the region. As expected, the Palestinians have rejected the offers straight away. Hamas, which is an Iranian terrorist arm, will never accept any proposal for real peace because it will have no reason to exist. The farcical theft of the Iranian elections shows that the country is no different from North Korea. It will speed up its efforts to get a nuclear weapons and continue its attacks on Israel. However Israel is not India. Its small size means that any serious attack will mean annihilation and its leaders are patriots. If seriously threatened it will not hesitate to use its own nuclear arsenal. Thus Mr. Obama's overtures to Islamic zealots while pressuring genuine democracies may yield exactly the opposite result to what he really wants.