According to the New York Times, some former Obama advisers are warning him not to cut that deal with Iran: “Ex-Advisers Warn Obama That Iran Nuclear Deal ‘May Fall Short’ of Standards.” It’s a long story on page A6, and has real political consequences.
For the White House, the letter may raise the level of political risk in seeking approval of any final agreement. A judgment from Mr. Obama’s own former advisers that the final accord falls short would provide ammunition for Republican critics
Among the signatories: Dennis Ross, Gary Samore of United Against Nuclear Iran, and David Petraeus. And this information is in the 26th paragraph of the story:
The letter emerged from a study group on nuclear issues organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a policy institute.
The NYT doesn’t tell you this, but WINEP is a pro-Israel thinktank, spun off 30 years ago by AIPAC the pro-Israel lobby group. MJ Rosenberg said:
WINEP was to be AIPAC’s cutout. It was funded by AIPAC donors, staffed by AIPAC employees, and located one door away, down the hall, from AIPAC Headquarters (No more. It has its own digs).
It would also hire all kinds of people not identified with Israel as cover and would encourage them to write whatever they liked on matters not related to Israel.
Look at its board of advisers: Mort Zuckerman, Richard Perle, Joseph Lieberman, and Marty Peretz.
A more stringent U.S. “red line” on Iran’s nuclear program has also been a rallying cry for several WINEP scholars.
Ross is chairman of the Jewish People Policy Institute (which opposes intermarriage) and was said to be Israel’s lawyer during the failed Camp David negotiations of 2000-2001. Einhorn is at Brookings, and did outreach (in favor of the Iran deal) to Zionist groups in the past.
So the Times is covering up for the Israel lobby.
And why isn’t the Times reporting on all the folks who support a deal. Like Trita Parsi, who writes:
If the two sides manage to reach a deal by their June 30 deadline, their achievement will go beyond just preventing a war or blocking Iran’s paths to a bomb. The real achievement may be that a major international conflict — a conflict that has brought the United States and Iran to the brink of war in recent years — has been resolved through a compromise achieved by diplomacy.
Thanks to Annie Robbins.
The folks that brought shock & awe to the world. The same folks that never really sought peace/justice/ human rights in the Peace Industry. They’re no better than Netanyahu trying to scrub any deal with Iran~ only these jamokes have ‘waited’ until the last minute. It’s lovely that the NYT is all over it.
I hope that Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry tell them ‘thanks, but no thanks.’
There’s a good reason that they are “Ex-Advisers”, isn’t there?
Some of those named would have been part of the “Six Jews in the room”on many occasions.Part of the reason why the so called peace talks never went anywhere.If you want to control a fire , you have to get to the source.
Fox News did a segment pushing these former Obama advisors & their POV. I doubt the usual Fox audience knows the background of the likes of Dennis Ross or WINEP.
%@-#&ing infiltration by a foreign power!
I’d like to ask the NYTimes editorial board and writers if they enjoy being a propaganda organ for the Neocons, and accept responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq and the Middle East due to wars pushed by the Neocons, whose viewpoints get such uncritical amplification by their newspaper.
Why not report that Netanyahu told his cabinet that his biggest fear about the Iran deal is that Iran will get it and then comply with every detail of it. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.651350