By the summer of 2013, President Obama had convinced several key Israelis that he wasn't bluffing about using force against the Iranian nuclear program. Then he failed to enforce his red line against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad—and the Israelis realized they'd been snookered. Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, recalls the shock inside his government. "Everyone went quiet," he said in a recent interview. "An eerie quiet. Everyone understood that that was not an option, that we're on our own."
Source: Washington Free Beacon