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Related: About this forumTo Netanyahu, Peace Is an Existential Threat
To Netanyahu, Peace Is an Existential Threatby Trita Parsi at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trita-parsi/netanyahu-congress-iran-speech_b_6782600.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
"SNIP...............
And it's not the specifics of the deal that is the problem, but the very notion of a deal involving the US and Iran. In fact, his Minister of Defense declared that any deal would be a threat.
Netanyahu's hypocrisy is astounding. As I describe in A Single Roll of the Dice -- Obama's Diplomacy with Iran, Netanyahu has always opposed diplomacy with Iran. Not because he feared it would fail, but precisely because he feared it would work. When President Obama took office in 2009 and began his outreach to Tehran, Netanyahu launched a campaign to undermine Obama centered on four key areas.
First, he pressed Congress to impose new sanctions on Iran before talks began, presumably to ensure that the escalatory measure would ensure that diplomacy never took off at all. Second, he pressed Obama to adopt the Bush administration's completely unrealistic goal to eliminate all Iranian uranium enrichment. Again, such a measure would ensure that diplomacy never took place -- the breakthrough in diplomacy took place once the US dropped that demand.
Third, Netanyahu wanted Obama to continue Bush's rhetoric of insisting that the military option remained on the table. Obama had famously stated that the conflict with Iran could not beresolved by issuing threats, and wanted to create an atmosphere conducive to diplomacy. Making war threats would achieve the opposite, which Netanyahu undoubtedly understood.
.............SNIP"
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To Netanyahu, Peace Is an Existential Threat (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2015
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Maniacs: *In fact, AIPAC was instructing its citizen lobbyists to tell US lawmakers that war with
Jefferson23
Mar 2015
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)1. Maniacs: *In fact, AIPAC was instructing its citizen lobbyists to tell US lawmakers that war with
Iran is preferable to the unacceptability of the status quo, i.e. Obama's nuclear deal.
The sad thing is some Americans believed this stunt had nothing to do with Iran but
exclusively with 2016 elections.
The sad thing is some Americans believed this stunt had nothing to do with Iran but
exclusively with 2016 elections.
applegrove
(118,880 posts)2. Yeah the USA should go to war with a country of 75 Million souls.
applegrove
(118,880 posts)3. The whole GOP foreign policy has everything to do with elections in the USA and nothing else.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)4. The opinions I am referring to are those who did not understand how much so
the hawks are willing to begin another war.