Tag: Iran nuclear deal

Don’t Trash the Nuclear Deal!

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

Don’t Trash the Nuclear Deal!

This next week may determine whether President Trump extricates us from that cauldron of conflict that is the Middle East, as he promised, or plunges us even deeper into these forever wars.

Friday will see the sixth in a row of weekly protests at the Gaza border fence in clashes that have left 40 Palestinians dead and 1,500 wounded by live fire from Israeli troops.

Monday, the U.S. moves its embassy to Jerusalem. Tuesday will see the triumphal celebration of the 70th birthday of the state of Israel.

Palestinians will commemorate May 15 as Nakba, “The catastrophe,” where hundred of thousands of their people fled their homes in terror to live in stateless exile for seven decades.

Violence could begin Friday and stretch into next week.

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Obama v. Bibi — Fight to the Finish

Looks like Bibi is winning as Schumer just fell into line with the his Zionest brotherhood.

 

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

In his desperation to sink the Iran nuclear deal, Bibi Netanyahu is taking a hellish gamble.

Israel depends upon the United States for $3 billion a year in military aid and diplomatic cover in forums where she is often treated like a pariah state. Israel has also been the beneficiary of almost all the U.S. vetoes in the Security Council.

America is indispensable to Israel. The reverse is not true.

Yet, without telling the White House, Bibi had his U.S. ambassador arrange for him to address a joint session of Congress in March — to rip up the president’s Iran nuclear deal before it was even completed.

The day the deal was signed, using what The Washington Post calls “stark apocalyptic language,” Bibi accused John Kerry of giving the mullahs a “sure path to a nuclear weapon” and a “cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars … to pursue its aggression and terror.”

Bibi has since inspired and led the campaign to get Congress to kill the deal, the altarpiece of the Obama presidency.

Israel Ambassador Ron Dermer, a former Republican operative now cast in the role of “Citizen Genet,” has intensively lobbied the Hill to get Congress to pass a resolution of rejection.

If that resolution passes, as it appears it will, Obama will veto it.

Then Israel, the Israeli lobby AIPAC, and all its allies and auxiliaries in the think tanks and on op-ed pages will conduct a full-court press to have Congress override the Obama veto and kill his nuclear deal.

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THE PRICE OF PEACE

Extortion from Israel, I’m shocked.  I wonder how much booty they can extract this time…  I would like to give them some time bombs, as sort of a practical joke.

US Eager to Placate, But Israeli Govt Split on Terms

Israeli Military, Foreign Ministry Split on Deal

by Jason Ditz, May 24, 2015

Last week’s reports of a deal in the making in which the US would give Israel a massive bump in military aid in return for their acquiescence on the Iran nuclear deal isconfirmed this weekend by Ynet, who quotes State Department officials as saying the US is prepared to pay “a hefty price to get some quiet from the Israelis.”

While the reports are that Israeli officials are resigned to this happening at some point, the indication is there is a major split among top officials as to how and when to proceed.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry is said to oppose any direct dealings with the Obama Administration at this point, believing that this would amount to an admission of their willingness to back off on the Iran deal, and that it would “only be a question of price” at that point.

The Foreign Ministry are also concerned, having been the ministry heavily campaigning internationally about the “threat” of the deal, that they will appear to have surrendered to the US.

By contrast, Israel’s Military Intelligence division believes that Iran is already a “done deal” and that the longer they wait, the less pressure there will be for the US to pay up. The military will be the primary recipients of this US funding, and believes they can get the most out of it by making the deal now, not later.

US State Department officials have expressed puzzlement about Israel’s hesitance in naming a price, but it likely that this split will continue for awhile until Israel issues actual demands.