Political commentator Leon Wieseltier acknowledged that despite his dislike for Benjamin Netanyahu, he believes the Israeli prime minister is right about the Iran nuclear deal.
Among his rationales for opposing the nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said that he did not trust the three European Union partners to punish Iran should it violate the terms of the accord that offers the Islamic Republic sanctions relief in exchange for scaling back its nuclear activities.
When The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles sent out a call to action last month, officials hoped the result would be vocal, community-wide opposition against the Iran deal.
One of the significant elements to this story involves American Jews opposing the president of the United States that they had helped to elect.
The Iran nuclear deal has been likened, ad nauseam, to a game of chess. It is with that model in mind that I favor the deal — though not for the usual reasons.
Time was, you could claim to be a patriotic Iranian, a supporter of Israel and a lover of the United States all at once and be believed by most Iranians.
I don’t know any proponent of President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal who doesn’t believe the deal can be improved.
In his 2006 book, “The Accidental Empire,” Gershom Gorenberg writes of Israel’s breathtakingly subtle, yet relentlessly evolving occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday said he and others in Congress would do \”everything possible\” to stop a new nuclear deal with Iran from moving forward.
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