[ALGEMEINER] The top political and intellectual leaders of the Israeli left are coming out against President B.O.'s capitulation to Iran. This development will impact the political dynamics in Israel, the American Jewish community, and the US-Israel relationship. And it will leave J Street on the fringe, once again.I believe they're discounting Short Attention Span Syndrome. The mantle of "Hope and Change" is shifting from B.O. to The Divine Mrs. C. At some point in the next year she will make the approximate statement "Israel has had no better friend than I!" Purportedly intelligent Jewish donors, their eyes blank, will utter "Hokay" and write the same checks they always write. Money being fungible, those checks will mingle with other checks, drawn on Arab banks, written by people who heard the other speech, about how Hill and Bill stand with the Paleostinian Peopleâ„¢ and always have.
Israel's Labor Party opposition, known during the recent election campaign as the Zionist Union, issued an official blurb on April 2 criticizing Obama's Iran deal. The head of the party's Knesset delegation, MK Eitan Cabel, elaborated on his Facebook page: "I refuse to join those applauding the agreement with Iran, because the truth is it keeps me awake at night. President B.O. promises that if the Iranians cheat, the world will know, but isn't that exactly what the Americans promised after the agreement with North Korea?"
The senior Labor Party official continued: "When a crazy religious regime with a proven track record of terrorism and cheating receives permission to get that close to a nuclear bomb, I am very worried. The fact that the man who is in charge of making sure the deal won't be broken has a proven record of mocking his own redlines, makes me even more worried."
Calling Prime Minister Netanyahu's efforts against the Iran deal "a correct struggle," the Labor Party MK emphasized that he is "standing behind Netanyahu" because "in the face of a nuclear Iran, there is no coalition and there is no opposition--we are all Israelis."
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...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
Haaretz editor Aluf Benn, himself a virulent critic of Netanyahu in the past, wrote on April 5 that Netanyahu's call for the international community to insist that Iran recognize Israel's right to exist was taken directly from the campaign rhetoric of Labor Party chairman Yitzhak Herzog.
There are signs of change among leading Israeli left-wing intellectuals, as well. Israeli author Ari Shavit, who has been the darling of the American Jewish left because of his recent book urging more Israeli concessions to the Arabs, may find himself with fewer speaking engagements on these shores in the near future, now that he too has come out against the Iran capitulation.