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Leland Vittert reports from Jerusalem
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- Date Nov 8, 2012
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All right to have back to larger farm policy issues now because Iran is starting to -- even more military muscle.
State TV has announced a massive air drills that we'll start this weekend.
The war games -- such cover nearly all of eastern Rhonda we'll -- off the country's arsenal jet fighters to Rollins and air defense systems.
And -- -- live in.
And what does this mean for the region.
-- -- is hard to tell whether the Iranians are doing this to drum up support within their own country or try to scare a lot of the folks here around the regions about the possibility of an Israeli strike Enron typically from these war games.
We don't see any kind of new military hardware.
Being shown off -- this one doesn't involve at least 8000.
A rainy and troops here in the other thing that this does.
Not only does it raise fears it also raises the price at the negotiating table the Iranians feel they can show off more and more military might.
They have a better chance that they sit down with the Americans or other western allies around the negotiating table.
They may get more for giving up their nuclear program that appears harder.
To take out militarily because it drills like this.
Martha and -- doing so this was an -- just hours after.
The election here at home the reelection for President Obama wasn't feeling -- all of that it is really -- No there was a lot of vocal downright hostile reaction from Israeli politicians to the reelection here.
There's a lot of fear that a second term President Obama is gonna be much tougher with Israel on the Palestinians and also of course on the Iranian issue it's no secret there's an icy relationship.
Between President Obama.
And the prime minister here the prime minister did all but endorsed governor Romney in the election there's a lot of anger among a number of Israeli got the prime minister for making Israel a partisan issue in fact.
People are downright scared about what might happen next someone -- an intimate knowledge of the US Israeli relationship described it to me.
As that come January when President Obama is re inaugurated he is going to eat grilled DB.
Referring to the prime minister's nickname for lunch at the inauguration.
A lot of people thinking this relationship here with the Israelis in the United States is gonna change drastically back to you.
-- us and thank you very much right so you want.