Posted on 07/14/2015 4:36:01 PM PDT by xzins
You can pick the Islamic Republic or the Jewish State. You can't pick both.
Isn’t it odd how every pundit and politician who’s been antagonistic towards Israel is also super excited about an Iranian deal that’s allegedly going to help protect the Jewish State from the threat of nuclear Iran?
All the peacemongers love it.
“We are satisfied that the solution found is based on the principle of phasing and mutuality which our country has been consistently supporting at every stage of these complicated negotiations,” says Vlad Putin, the leader of the country that made Iranian nuclear power a possibility. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he’s confident his ally in Iran will now step up its efforts to back his “just causes” after the nuclear deal is wrapped up. And really, why wouldn’t it?
The backing of a war criminal doesn’t necessarily mean we have a bad deal. The “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” is a bad deal because it’s the first time the United States has offered extensive concessions to a nation that openly seeks to destabilize our interests. It’s the first time we will be offering an oppressive theocracy (one that still holds American hostages) hundreds of billions of dollars to menace our (former) allies via its proxies throughout the Middle East. For the first time in history a president has legitimatized an openly anti-American state with expansionist aims to help him expand political legacy at home.
We just handed Iran everything it wanted in exchange for a promise to keep the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation it already signed back in 1968. Good work.
The above tweet from the Iranian president was sent out after the deal was reached, by the way. Yet, many in the media have already framed Obama’s Iranian deal like so: Are you with the United States or are you with Israel? (When a confused chief foreign correspondent for NBC News asks whether it is even legal for Israel to lobby Congress on the deal, you’re getting a taste of the underlying antagonism the press often has towards Israel.)
The real question, as Rouhani understand well, is this one: Is the United States going to stand with the Jewish State or with Iran? We know where Obama stands.
Obama is now locked in no matter how poorly implementation goes and no matter how uncooperative Iran will be. Otherwise, it is another political failure. And most Democrats are probably locked in to supporting the deal for a number of partisan and ideological reasons. Signing it, they will argue, proves that diplomacy, not war, can work. Liberals have been offering this false choice for so many years, so it’s doubtful they can back away from it now.
Others will claim that conservatives have an ideological predisposition to opposing any foreign-policy agreements, as Jonathan Chait and others have already done, so this hostility can only be vacuous, as well. That sure makes debate easy.
Or maybe, it’ll be Netanyahu’s fault for opposing an Iranian deal that pushed the president to allow Iran to become a nuclear power.
Even if you have an unfettered belief in diplomacy, what’s the point of being a superpower if you’re going to negotiate with enervated regimes as if they were equals—or worse? What’s the point of creating leverage through years of sanctions, if we don’t demand Iranians stop, at the very least, using technology that can be quickly re-engineered to enrich uranium? There are a number of possibilities, among them: 1) The administration doesn’t really care if Iran becomes a nuclear power one day. As long as it’s not today. 2) The administration does care if Iran becomes a regional nuclear power, but it doesn’t really mind at all.
Turns out everything those conspiracy theorists were claiming about the president’s policy of generating conflict with Israel was probably right. One point of the deal—or, at the very least, the unintended outcome—is to dramatically alter the balance of power in Middle East. Who do you think Obama believes is a bigger threat to peace in the region? Likud or the Supreme Leader? Put it this way. The Obama administration has called Javad Zarif a patriot and Netanyahu a chickenshit.
There’s little doubt Obama desires to see Iran as a counterbalance to Israeli power in the region. There’s little doubt this deal would accomplish that goal. Yes, there is a relationship in place with the Jewish State that can’t be discarded by the administration for legal, practical, and political reasons. But the same administration that has no compunction demanding Israel stop building neighborhoods was unable to extract anything but the most rudimentary concessions from Iran. Not even snap inspections. And though Netanyahu has already claimed that Israel is not bound by this deal, attacking the Iranian program itself becomes far more perilous—if it’s even possible without our help—as Iran is essentially under the protection of the United States and six other nations.
If the new Iranian deal doesn’t significantly change the Jewish vote in the United States, then Israel really isn’t as an important issue as we think. Very soon, it will be entirely partisan.
At least, we have a better idea when the Iranians will possess the nuclear weapons that will allow them to function with impunity in the region: Around ten years from now. By that time, Tehran will be securely situated on the threshold (if they uphold their end of the deal) of spurring a nuclear-arms race in Middle East. Although a ban on trading ballistic missiles will expire after only eight years, unless the IAEA says Iran can have them earlier. “All the sanctions, even arms embargoes and missile-related sanctions… would all be lifted,” President Hassan Rouhani correctly notes.
Why? Did you think Iranians were spilling into the streets to celebrate access to a new source of energy?
Treason!
That is what Obama wanted all along. He has never hidden his Muslim hatred of Israel.
Even without the religious reasons for supporting Israel, if one had to choose between a sponsor of world terror that has killed thousands of Americans and a nation that has been a steadfast ally, it would seem a simple, honorable choice.
Unfortunately, not even rationality rules in the Obama Administration. (But we already knew that.)
I agree. I’ve always considered him pro-Islam. Given his background, it’s not irrational at all for us to think that, but it’s considered tin foil by the blind leaders of the blind.
Israel isn’t my enemy. And, I am not afraid for Israel. GOD Himself is in control and HE will protect Israel. That is not saying bad things will happen in Israel. However, Israel WILL NOT be defeated by any izzie muzzie thugs. Israel will be defended by GOD Almighty! Period! End of statement!
We must tank God that Mitt didn’t win!!!
The author is mistaken when he says that Iran will have the bomb in 10 years.
In all probability they have all the pieces already and will go live once BHO is out of office.
Mitt was the frying pan and Obama the fire.
I agree that the fire is pretty bad.
But the frying pan is no picnic.
As you recall, Romney supported gay boy scouts. He probably rejoiced today with the announcement that ‘republican’ Bob Gates has done for the boy scouts what he did for the US military.
If the government of Israel comes to the conclusion that America is no longer it’s Ally and is an active enemy then Israel will seek other alliances with powerful countries. Russia and China would love to get a hold of Israeli technology. The amount of damage done to America’s defense posture in relation to the rest of the world’s militaries will be immense. Obamas made America a shit sandwich and now we’re having to eat
FUBO!
FWIW, the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is on average 20 points higher than the rest of the world.
The world is totally upside down. The past month has been awful.
An Idiot on BBC said Iran will now replace Saudi Arabia as the US’s Best ally in the middle east ,LOL
Obummer is our enemy!
How does it feel to see your country stolen away from you in broad daylight and without even a whimper of meaningful opposition from the congress?
I wonder what the Sunni nations in the ME think of this deal?
Israel has one strong and eternal ally - his name is JHWH. He is about to rise up.
The Corker vote says they are complicit.
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