The Russians are (rightfully) nervous about U.S. military intervention in their neck of the woods (what took them so long?) and Rouhani is just saying out loud what everyone who understands the situation in Israel-Palestine has been saying quietly for a long time. I doubt the Iranian President has any illusions that Israel will even acknowledge his invitation.
Every politician in the world is still calculating his or her next move based on local advantage; no one has the future of a united humanity in mind. This is one of the unintended consequences of the European tragedy known as the 30 years war: the invention of the nation state (to stop Protestants and Catholics from slaughtering each other) balkanized the mental horizons of people everywhere.
When Obama, Putin, Rouhani and the Egyptian generals form a study group to work their way through Montaigne's Essais, the revolution will be under way. In the meantime:
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