This week in power: Iran sanctions debate and Banksy’s latest message

A roundup of the most talked about political and global stories in the Jewish world this week:

A big meeting
White House national security advisor Susan Rice and others met with four American Jewish organizations on Tuesday to discuss how the U.S. government can keep them “from lobbying the Senate towards passing harsh new sanctions against Iran, just as bilateral negotiations have resumed between the two nations,” ” target=”_blank”>wrote The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin. “Nothing can be done unless the U.S. settles accounts with Iran,” ” target=”_blank”>noted that many Americans “choose the easier path of believing that the grave Iran issue can be solved by diplomacy and that other issues should not be of great concern to the administration.”

Banksy's truck graffiti
One Jewish businessman in Brooklyn got lucky… when the elusive street artist Banksy ” target=”_blank”>added that since he “can't appreciate art,” he doesn't fully understand the value in the work. “Although I don’t care much about Banksy, I run into moments like this where I see the genius in his work,”