World Press on American-Israeli relations over Iran (August 31-September 3, 2012)

"Israel accuses Obama administration of sending 'mixed messages' to
Iran" is an article published by the Telegraph on September 2. "Moshe
Yaalon made explicit the growing gulf between Israel and its closest
ally, the United States, saying that Iran did not take seriously the
military threat it was under over its nuclear programme," the
beginning of the article reads. The Telegraph calls Yaalon's criticism
"striking because he has been among those in the Israeli cabinet
believed to have been urging time for sanctions against Iran to be
allowed to work."

The newspaper believes that "the rate of progress in the Iranian
nuclear programme, even if there is no firm evidence that it intends
to push ahead with building a nuclear weapon, is being used by
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, and Ehud Barak, defence
minister, to back their case that a military strike is needed sooner
rather than later."
The same day the New York Times published an article entitled "To Calm
Israel, U.S. Offers Ways to Restrain Iran."  "With Israel openly
debating whether to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming
months, the Obama administration is moving ahead with a range of steps
short of war that it hopes will forestall an Israeli attack, while
forcing the Iranians to take more seriously negotiations that are all
but stalemated," the article reads. The author of the article believes
that "None of the steps being taken by the Obama administration
addresses the most immediate goal of the United States and its allies:
Slowing Iran’s nuclear development." He adds that all the measures
scheduled by the Obama administration "are designed to buy time — to
offer Israeli officials a credible alternative to a military strike
that would almost certainly trigger an Iranian reaction and, the White
House and Pentagon fear, could unleash a new conflict in the Middle
East."