Racism surely played a role in western misconceptions of Iran’s plans. Iran is somehow deemed inferior to Western powers, which are thought to be rational and responsible in spite of their record of two world wars and innumerable colonial wars, including recent unwarranted attacks on Iraq, Libya and other Arab countries.
Israel always told us that Iranian nukes were a threat to its very existence. Now that Obama has removed that problem, Israel says it’s not the real problem. No, it’s Iran’s pressure on Israel’s occupation.
“Netanyahu hates it so it must be good” — a typical letter to the New York Times, from readers overwhelmingly celebrating the Iran deal
Bernard Marcus, Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer are among the billionaires trying to defeat a deal with Iran through lobby groups. Some of the pressure is aimed at NY Senator Chuck Schumer. But the American people want a deal
Netanyahu says that the Iran deal is a “jackpot” for Iran, which is an existential threat. But Iran says the real existential threat are the “hooded” men ravaging “the cradle of civilization”
Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft brought a group of former NFL stars, including Thurman Thomas, Curtis Martin, Mel Blount and Raymond Berry, to meet Netanyahu in Israel, and the PM railed against Obama’s Iran deal
If Hillary Clinton is elected, Israel will have to limit settlements to the major settlement blocs in the West Bank, Michael Oren offered last night, so as to restore the special relationship between the countries that Obama has broken.
“I have to do what’s right for the United States first of all, and Eretz Yisrael [the land of Israel] second,” NY Senator Chuck Schumer tells a Jewish group in a speech suggesting that he is going to back the Iran deal. He said he has made Obama “mad” by opposing the deal.