by Boaz Bismuth
On Thursday, after the
Democrats lost the midterm elections, U.S. President Barack Obama said
that he prefers not signing a deal with Iran to signing a "bad deal."
It's possible that he meant what he said, but the question is, to what
extent is a good deal for Washington also a good deal for Jerusalem?
Meanwhile, Tehran
should be happy: A "good deal" is achievable for Iran, and it's just
short of being served on a silver platter. The deadline to sign the deal
between Iran and the powers (Nov. 24) is only drawing nearer, and in
the United States, there are a growing number of reports saying that it
is expected to be the crowning achievement of the Obama administration.
It's good to know that after six years, the White House found the
formula for a legacy -- but why does it have to come at our expense?
The past few years have
proven that Washington does not know how to decipher the Middle East.
That has been the case with Egypt, Libya, Syria, the Palestinians, the
Islamic State group and with Iran, unfortunately. We have to admit that
this a problem with the West in general, which has been infected with
the wishful-thinking bug.
It would be comfortable
to believe that Tehran has changed and that the deal will put an end to
the Iranian nuclear bomb project. Just read last week's headline in The
Economist that explains to us that Iran has changed. The liberals in
the West are buying the story -- but the liberals in Iran are not.
It is important to
understand that today the West is even more interested in a deal than
the Iranians. That's why in the beginning, the West accepted the idea
that the extremist Ayatollah regime could develop a nuclear program.
Now, it has been decided to allow them to keep thousands of centrifuges
(5,000 out of 19,000). What do they need so many for? To develop
medicine? For electricity? The Iranians, with their incredible chutzpah,
are doing this during the negotiations. If they give it to you -- would
you not take it?
The Iranians lied about
their nuclear program three times in a single decade. Three reasons
that mean negotiations should not be between equal partners. The
Iranians are the ones who should be compromising, making concessions,
surrendering, begging for a deal. But that is not the case.
In Washington, they really calmed
us down over the weekend by telling us that the secret letter that
Obama sent to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not make a
connection between the war on terror and the deal. Everyone in this
story is trying to come off as innocent. Iran wants a civilian nuclear
program, and the secret letter was actually Maimonides' letter...
Boaz Bismuth
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10513
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