by Ariel Kahana
The Biden administration's future policymakers are known for their soft stance on Iran, which does not bode well.
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| US President-elect Joe Biden | File photo: AFP |
Many may consider Israel the 51st state, but the truth is, domestic American policy is none of our concern. Americans have voted and we, as Israelis, have no business opining on whether they are right or wrong. Israeli officials, however, are duty-bound to consider the ramifications to future US policies.
The reality is that Senator-elect Jon Ossoff of Georgia, routinely shares anti-Israeli articles from websites that promote the boycott of Israel. Senator-elect Raphael Warnock, for his part, has in the past compares the security fence to the Berlin Wall, and Israeli policy in Judea and Samaria to apartheid and Nazism.
US President-elect Joe Biden's series of White House nominations are equally troubling.
Choosing Antony Blinken as secretary of state may portray Biden as opting for a moderate line, but many future administration officials have a history of making troubling statements.
Take for example, National Security Adviser-designate Jack Sullivan, who thinks Iran should be appeased and is as critical of Tehran's human rights violations as he is of Saudi Arabia's.
Sullivan played a key role in the unfortunate nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, as did Wendy Sherman, who headed the US team for talks five years ago and was recently appointed undersecretary of state.
Germany, Britain, and France condemned the Iranian provocation of raising uranium enrichment levels to 20% and the use of advanced centuries, but no future Biden administration official did that, including Blinken and Sherman, who are both Jewish.
This type of silence before Biden takes office on Jan. 20 does not necessarily imply tacit consent in the future, but it is clear that the Iranians see Biden's team as soft. This is also why it is already trying to intimidate them – so that Biden goes easy on the ayatollahs when he takes office.
The overall trend does not bode well. It is not for nothing that the Institute for National Security Studies recommended Wednesday that Israel "maintain a viable offensive option vis-à-vis Iran and reach understandings with the United States on the criteria for military action seeing to thwart Iran's road to a nuclear weapon."
With such dark clouds on the horizon, it is unclear why the Left is so giddy about the Democrats' victory in the Georgia runoff for the US Senate. Israel, after all, is not the 51st state.
Ariel Kahana
Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/01/07/troubling-signs-from-us-require-firm-stand-on-iran/
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