Israelis fear loosing their favourite enemy

With their usual twisted logic, some Israelis analysts now say they prefer Ahmadinejad as president of Iran as he "will be easier to isolate than reformist leader Mr. Mousavi," the Christian Science Monitor reports. (One might add that the Israeli defense and political establishment invested considerable support in building up Ahmadinejad as a boogeyman to keep their own population in a state of constant fear - with Mousavi they would have to start all over again). Maybe that's why Israeli president Shimon Peres came out as a strong supporter of Mousavi on Sunday, calling for regime change in Iran - because he knows such support will do more harm than good for the Iranian opposition...