A headline on the front page of the New York Times on Monday about the explosion of a key Iranian nuclear facility claimed that “the attack could hurt efforts to restart the 2015 deal.” On Tuesday, also on the front page, the newspaper stated that “Israel’s role in Iran blast casts a shadow over US nuclear talks”
Do you get it? Making a new deal with Iran is very good, anything that hurts the opportunity is very bad, including Israel.
Here’s an alternative view: The Times continues to drink the Kool-Aid that the original Iranian nuclear pact was a success and worth saving. For the dead committed, Iranian violations of the conditions and the spread of regional terrorism are irrelevant.
The cult surrounding the Gray Lady agreement includes the newspaper’s editorial board. His Saturday table, written before the weekend’s attack, began by saying “Now is a short time” for President Biden to reach a new agreement. The reason: Iranian moderates could disappear in the summer. Oh yeah, moderate Iranians, the unicorns that only flickering leftists can see. So let’s hurry and make a deal, any deal.
The Times, of course, throws out a lot of nonsense that is safely ignored, but this time they sing in harmony with Biden. The president is so eager to rejoin the pact that Donald Trump cleverly spread that he is willing to help blame Israel for sabotaging the Natanz underground facility. With the first speculations that the US and Israel cooperated in the attack, as they did in a cyber attack in 2010, the White House quickly denied any role in the operation, which destroyed all the power of the centrifuges. . “The United States did not participate in any way,” Secretary of State Jen Psaki said Monday.
So much for the usual diplomatic ambiguity that it would protect an ally and give more flexibility to the U.S. when questioned in the future about classified operations.
But Biden clearly has no interest in protecting Israel’s likely role. On the contrary, he has reported in numerous ways that the full American embrace of the Jewish state he enjoyed during the Trump years is history.
In fact, efforts to secede from Israel and attract Iran illustrate how Biden is determined to bring the Obama-Biden administration’s foreign policies to life, even failures. The main thing is to destroy Israel as more of an obstacle to peace than a single friend and ally.
A clear example is that Biden has already given two Palestinians to the Palestinians: hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers and the veto of US policies on their dispute with Israel. Trump had stopped payments in part because part of the money went to salaries of the terrorists’ families. In addition, Palestinian leaders even refused to talk to the Trump team, why they should be rewarded with American money. They shouldn’t, but incredibly, none of these problems seem to bother Biden. Maximum backward speed.
As for the Abraham Accords, the historic alliance between Israel and four Muslim nations, a new State Department spokesman could not even say the official name of the agreements. If Trump were re-elected, it is likely that the Saudis would have signed and made public with their Israeli secret ties, even accepting full diplomatic recognition. This would be an unprecedented seismic change, but Biden began his administration by insulting the crown prince saying he would only speak to the king.
It also cut our military support for the kingdom’s war in Yemen against the Houthis, a terrorist group that has been attacking Saudi oil fields.
The houthis themselves offer a window into Biden’s strange priorities. While, or perhaps because, the Houthis are funded and armed primarily by Iran, he removed the terror designation Trump imposed on the group in the waning days of his administration. Trump’s action was a slap in the face to Iran and a gift to Saudi Arabia, and Biden has reversed that. Again, why?
Still, the timing of Natanz’s explosion is important, right after Iranian and U.S. negotiators had the first round of meetings. With much of the Israeli press assuming it was a Mossad operation, the Times and Biden seem to have concluded that the goal was to thwart progress that could lead to a new nuclear pact. They might be right, but here’s another more likely possibility. Israel does not trust Biden to make a good deal or Iran to comply with any restrictions. Therefore, Israel acted to delay the mulkah nuke program while it was open and before it was too late. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, “I will never allow Iran to gain nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel.”
It is unclear whether the United States still shares this commitment. This doubt is a formula for problems that has already encouraged Iran and led Israel to act without waiting for American approval or help.
Endless “election day”
Reader Ruth Cohen is baffled by fights over early voting and other rules. She writes: “What happens on election day? People know the date months in advance. They can prepare by registering, making sure there is child care, someone to take them to the polls if they have a disability. “They can set up the alarm clock to wake up early, eat and hydrate. Everyone has a birthday, a birthday; there is a Christmas day. What is the reason for 12 or 17 days, even voting a month before election day? “
The match was left unsaid
Yahoo publishes a detailed Albuquerque Journal story about New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham paying $ 62,500 to a former staff member to settle a sexual abuse lawsuit. It’s a good read, but history doesn’t tell which party the governor belongs to.
This is how she is known to be a Democrat.
Frightened by the subway
The findings are so obvious that you wonder why the MTA bothered to do a survey. Then remember that the City Council needs another reminder that the subway crime lands pilots and keeps other people off the trains. About 72 percent of current passengers feel “very concerned” about safety. Only 26 percent said they were “satisfied” with the criminal and harassment conditions, a 15-point drop from September. 36% of those who stopped riding cited the crime as a motive.
“Our pilots have sent a clear message,” interim traffic president Sarah Feinberg told the post. “If you make the system more secure, [they] The poll of 25,205 people should be a wake-up call for more police officers to be needed. But Blasio’s mayor, whose term ended and the NYPD’s reduction, is less interested than ever in doing anything. Remember the survey the next time officials complain that the number of pilots is well below pre-pandemic levels.There is a good reason.