Being as Obama is not even president yet, I somehow doubt he is in treaty negotiations with the Israelis. That said, if this were to be true, I can take a guess at what he is thinking.

Up until now, whenever the nuclear issue has come up in regional negotiations, the Arab states have always been more than willing to agree to a "nuclear free Middle East". Iran has also said as much. But there lies the problem -- Israel has nuclear weapons. In fact, Israel is one of only 4 countries that is not a signature to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. That makes it difficult for any negotiations to go anywhere. The old "we can do it, and so can they, but you're not allowed to" strategy -- it's not very convincing and certainly not a good tool for negotiations.

Perhaps Obama feels that he can convince Israel to give up their nuclear weapons in exchange for such a treaty by the US. If he can convince them of such a thing, then he has a good chance at working out such a treaty with Iran.

Beyond that thought, I cannot imagine any such treaty as it would not make any sense nor serve any purpose. If the Iranians are not affraid of an Israeli nuclear response, then they would not be afraid of an American nuclear response. Last time I checked, nuclear weapons do a ton of damage regardless of which country they are launched from.

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