Far from undoing the damage done by Trump’s violation of the Iran Nuclear Deal, Biden is making a bad situation worse by continuing to support a hardline and belligerent Israeli government without knowing its strategy towards Iran.
Joe Biden helped Bush and Cheney build the case for the Iraq war by allowing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be a doormat. Scott Horton’s book “Enough Already” reminds us that lies and conspiracy theories by Israel supporters fed the runup to the Iraq war. That record is required reading now that our supposed client state is escalating its attacks on Iran just as the U.S. is trying to reenter the Iran deal.
The New York Times buries the report that Defense Department officials worry that Trump might order American troops to fire weapons at Iran. While Elliott Abrams is in the Mideast, pushing for a “flood” of new sanctions on Iran.
Some Trump officials are already attempting to stop an incoming Biden administration from returning to the nuclear deal.
Friedman has written 19 opinion pieces in the New York Times since June, but only two about the Mideast, where he made his reputation, and then ruined it by enthusiastically supporting Iraq war. So he has avoided the pressing issues of Israel’s annexation and Trump/Pompeo’s threats to goad Iran into a conflict in the middle of the presidential race.
News reports Mike Pompeo’s latest bellicosity toward Iran leave out the fact that Donald Trump is depending on as much as $50 million in contributions from Sheldon Adelson, who has called for the U.S. to nuke Iran.
The danger that Benjamin Netanyahu will provoke Donald Trump into attacking Iran is not over. In fact, the risk of conflict just increased.
On May 15, Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL reported a Jewish site in Iran was “set afire overnight.” The report was widely picked up, but looks very doubtful. Iranian media say an attack on the site was unsuccessful. Greenblatt has revealed himself as another ideologue in the campaign for regime change in Iran.
The New York Times editorializes against the inhumane sanctions program against Iran during the coronavirus pandemic, but in all its reports it leaves out the chief proponent of this policy, Israel advocates, including the disingenuously-titled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
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