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Get up yesterday morning: Israel and the Biden administration on their way to a renewed confrontation on the Iranian issue
The president-elect intends to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and only later try to reach an improved agreement.
Netanyahu has already begun a public campaign against the move, which may intensify ahead of the election.
Use the US Chief of Staff's visit to convey the message to Biden: Do not run for agreement with Iran
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Thursday, 24 December 2020, 19:31
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Israel and the incoming Biden administration are in what appears to be a conflicting path around the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. There is a growing gap between President-elect Joe Biden and his men's stated intention to re-enter into the nuclear deal and Israeli government expectations and demands not to do so.
Biden and his advisers have repeatedly stressed after their election victory that they intend to reach a preliminary agreement with Iran, under which the United States will lift sanctions and return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and Iran will stop violating the agreement and roll back its nuclear program in the past two years.
According to Biden and his people, after returning to the original agreement they want to enter into negotiations with Iran on a new and improved agreement.
At this stage there are still no contacts between the Israeli government and the incoming Biden administration, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close adviser Weeks of public messages to the new administration against a return to the nuclear deal, Netanyahu announced that the new administration was "forbidden" to make such a move, and Drummer claimed that this would be a "serious mistake."
The most extreme line in government.
Netanyahu (Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90)
Last week, Drummer went even further, when in an interview with right-wing commentator Mark Levin's radio program he stated that a return to the nuclear deal would be "terrible and dangerous for the Middle East", arguing that backing the agreement among some in Washington is "like religious belief".
Drummer called on Biden not to enter into a new deal with Iran, but to continue pressuring it.
He also hinted that the Biden administration should work to change the regime in Iran, saying that it should "address the Iranian people based on the pressure exerted by Trump and support the Iranian aspiration for freedom."
Biden's advisers, most of whom have also served in senior positions in the Obama administration, hear the voices coming from Netanyahu and Drummer.
Some of them feel as if they entered the movie "Get Up Yesterday Morning," and are reliving in 2020 the campaign that Netanyahu ran against them in 2015.
They are dissatisfied with this public campaign, which began even before Biden entered the Oval Office, but at this point they remain silent and do not respond.
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Is not happy with the public campaign.
Biden (Photo: AP)
The Israeli government does not have a uniform line on the Iranian issue.
Netanyahu and Drummer have the most extreme line, which denies any return to the nuclear agreement.
Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi have a slightly different line. They do not outright reject an agreement with Iran, but emphasize that the agreement should be new and improved from the one signed in 2015.
The bridge to the new administration
Senior Israeli officials said that in light of the lack of contacts with the Biden administration, senior members of the political echelon and the defense establishment decided to take advantage of the visit of United States Army Chief of Staff General Mark Millie to Israel last week to convey messages to the incoming Iranian administration.
General Millie is expected to remain in office even after Biden enters the White House on January 20, and may serve as a bridge to the new administration for Israel.
"We wanted to convey our messages to the new administration on the Iranian issue through a person who is going to be in the room when Biden enters the White House, and who will most likely play a significant role in formulating the new policy," a senior Israeli official said.
Tried to get the message across.
Milli in Israel (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
Millie met in Israel with Netanyahu, Ganz, Kochavi and other senior members of the defense establishment.
Senior Israeli officials said the key message was that Biden should not rush back to the 2015 nuclear deal, but take advantage of Iran's pressure following sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump to reach an improved agreement.
Israeli officials made it clear to Millie that if Biden returned to the previous nuclear deal, he would lose all of his leverage, and would find it very difficult to reach an improved deal afterwards.
"We stressed that Biden needs to be very tough with the Iranians now to reach a better agreement," a senior Israeli official said.
He went so far as to interview in a radio interview.
Drummer (Photo: Gettyimages)
Another message that Israel conveyed to the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the hope that it would pass it on to the new administration concerned relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Biden has repeatedly been highly critical of the two countries, amid the war in Yemen and human rights abuses.
Israeli officials told Millie that Biden should be more flexible in his dealings with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and that he should take advantage of the normalization agreements and the new atmosphere in the region and not burn the bridges with these two countries.
The political situation in Israel is also expected to have an impact on the debate with the Biden administration on the Iranian issue.
The new president will take office when Israel is in the midst of another election campaign.
Netanyahu is expected to exaggerate his messages on the Iranian issue, which could create greater tension with Washington.
He will certainly want to fly to Washington and meet with Biden before the election, and it is unclear whether the new president will want to be seen as interfering in the Israeli election as his predecessor did in all three recent election campaigns.
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