A senior Iranian official said Tehran privately told Vance the pair were exploiting the negotiations for financial gain. The Trump administration says it never happened.
Section 219 carries the formal name the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” It threads a single foreign country straight into the apparatus that commandeers over a trillion dollars of American firepower. Americans have grown weary of bankrolling other nations’ wars while their own towns go without, and the honest answer is not a slyly buried merger engineered to outlast every vote. The answer is a clean break.
Hard power is needed to halt Israel’s reckless quest to redraw the borders of the Middle East in pursuit of “Greater Israel”. The power Israel lost to dictate the terms of peace on Iran, it has sought to regain in Lebanon. And Israel is now also focussing on Turkey (this has not gone down well with Trump).
Opposing the steps needed to make negotiations succeed is an argument for returning to the very strategy that produced war.
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Polls show a deterioration of Israel’s standing, even among segments of the American population traditionally considered pro-Israel. The campaigns financed by the Israeli government, aimed at influencing Christian conservatives, are now attempting to justify the deeply unpopular Iran war.
After Netanyahu’s most vocal cheerleader called him a ‘scumbag’ over the Iran deal, JD Vance correctly observed that Israel’s right wing would ‘want this to go on until every Iranian is dead.’ It’s time for the U.S. to reckon with Israel’s recklessness.
Was it worth it? Of course not. But comparing his Iran deal with Obama’s or decrying the terms risks falling into the same traps as previous presidents