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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 12:34 PM Jul 2015

John Kerry: Iran Nuclear Deal Is Good For Israel's Security

Last edited Fri Jul 24, 2015, 01:36 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Huffington Post

"Let me ask you a very simple question: Is Israel safer with a one-year breakout time or a two-month breakout time?"

Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday continued his aggressive defense of the nuclear agreement recently reached with Iran. Pushing back against mounting criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several pro-Israel lobbying groups in the U.S., Kerry framed the nuclear accord as a boon for Israeli national security.

"For Israel, for the region, we started with a two-month breakout time," Kerry said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to the estimated amount of time it would take Iran to create enough fissile material to fuel a bomb.

"With this agreement, for ten years, the breakout time will be one year or more," he continued. "Let me ask you a very simple question: Is Israel safer with a one-year breakout time or a two-month breakout time?"

(snip)
"We've seen the Prime Minister draw a cartoon of a bomb at the U.N. and so on and so forth," he said. "But what's happened? What has anyone done about it? Anybody got a plan to roll it back?"



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kerry-iran-israel_55b22b45e4b0224d8831d360?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592




video: John Kerry talks to Matt Lauer about the Iran Deal
http://www.today.com/video/john-kerry-on-iran-nuclear-deal-this-is-not-based-on-trust-490675779711
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blm

(113,101 posts)
1. Thanks for keying on this battle. Hopefully, more here at DU will recognize its import
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 12:58 PM
Jul 2015

and join the battle the warmongers and war profiteers plan on winning in the corporate media.

 
2. Why is OUR Sec of State reassuring OUR Congress about a foreign country's security?
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 01:21 PM
Jul 2015

Israel can take care of itself! (It's not exactly a 90-pound weakling.)

lark

(23,160 posts)
4. Because of Sheldon Adelson and his ilk.
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 01:37 PM
Jul 2015

He cares way more for Israel than he does this country and funds well those who are Bibi sycophants. I think he only lives in the USA to generate more US $$ for the country he truly loves, Israel.

karynnj

(59,506 posts)
5. Because THAT country is behind the lobbying against this
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 01:58 PM
Jul 2015

and their case is that it harms them - though I have to agree with Kerry (yeah, not an unusual event) that a one year break out for 10 years is better than a 2 month break out now.

To give an idea of how intense the lobbying is, a friend of mine from synagogue was furious that Haddasah, which until yesterday she belonged to, called her three times yesterday to lobby her representatives. This is actually more divisive from what I have seen than the war in Gaza was.

For many genuinely concerned that BiBi could be telling the truth (it could happen, couldn't it?), Kerry's clear cut words on this are important. In the long run, for Israel, the region, and the world - that comparison says the deal is better than the status quo. It is so obvious, that Hadassah, AIPAC and others are arguing not for the status quo, but for a nonexistent, not obtainable unicorn - "a better deal". (As if, the 6 nations really would reject the carefully designed deal, return to the table, leave in the interim agreement and spend time working on a plan that BiBi would like. )

At the end, it comes down to:
1) This deal or no deal
2) If no deal, there will almost certainly be pressure to bomb Iran - especially because there will be no monitors and some will argue they are even closer than 2 months and we have to stop them now.

More than the IWR even, a vote against this is a vote for war over giving diplomacy a chance.

MBS

(9,688 posts)
10. "More than . . IWR. . .a vote against this is a vote for war over giving diplomacy a chance."
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 03:00 PM
Jul 2015

Nicely explained, thanks!

blm

(113,101 posts)
6. Because that GOP-run Congress is carrying water for that foreign country's extremists
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 02:04 PM
Jul 2015

and are deliberately doing so while their campaigns are being bankrolled by Israel's RW extremists and war-profiteers.

blm

(113,101 posts)
8. Kicking for REALLY important issue that most of DU is ignoring.
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 02:40 PM
Jul 2015

The GOP and war-profiteers want to thank DU for your lack of interest.

Sorry, cal. These threads on Iran nuclear deal are falling on deaf 'primary navel-gazing' ears.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
9. I don't see how any congressperson or senator with a brain votes against this.
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 02:52 PM
Jul 2015

What's the alternative?

On the other hand, unlike, apparently, most of the Congress, I am not beholden to Israel.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
12. It's All About Campaign Money from a Right Wing Lobby Group
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 07:03 PM
Jul 2015

The alternative is the threat of another war in the Middle East and a more of a threat to Israel, the loss of Iran as a potential trading partner to Russia and China. We need the deal with Iran and we need to stand up to the Right Wing in this country. We cannot let them win this, the stakes are too high.

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