A group of Democratic congressmen held a press conference to express strong reservations about the nuclear deal with Iran that the Biden administration is acting like a madman to close at any cost.
Legislators oppose the details of the agreement that have been leaked so far, which promise that Iran will become a nuclear threshold state, and transfer $ 90-130 billion to the ayatollahs' fund when the sanctions are lifted.
Since its inception, the Bennett-Lapidz-Gantz government has been working on the assumption that the agreement is complete, that the Biden government's pro-Iranian policy cannot be influenced, and that it is better for Israel to sit quietly hoping to gain points in the Biden team.
For some reason, Israel's foreign and security policy leaders have forgotten a simple fact;
Like Israel, the United States is a democracy. And in the end, public opinion cannot be ignored.
Last week, the esteemed pollster John McLaughlin published the results of a poll on the US public's attitude toward Iran, and the right policy to address its nuclear program. Significance: A very large majority of Americans strongly oppose government policy. 45% of Americans believe that the US should attack Iran's nuclear facilities if the sanctions do not work.
27% believe that the US should reduce sanctions in this case.
76% of Americans support the strengthening of economic sanctions against Iran.
Only 14% want to weaken them, and 69% oppose the reduction of sanctions.
As for the nuclear deal specifically, 63% of the American public think the deal poses a greater threat to US national security than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
About Marxists and Fascists
All the polls in recent months show that Biden's political situation is very bad, and continues to deteriorate week by week.
Most observers expect Democrats to lose their majority in both houses of Congress in the November election.
The Republican majority, which is expected to take over the legislature, will effectively repeal the administration's progressive policy on domestic issues, and reduce the administration's ability to implement entire strands of its foreign policy.
The Democratic congressional press conference, like the results of McLaughlin's poll on Iran and other polls on Biden's condition and his policies, highlight the status of the progressives.
While they are the dominant camp in the Democratic Party, and control Biden's policies, this radical wing is a minority among the American public, and it has opponents within the Democratic Party as well.
How is this reflected in Israel and the attitude of the Americans towards it?
The progressive camp (like the fascist right) has been very hostile to Israel since 1967, and remains so to this day.
It is guided by an anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Marxist ideology.
Just as Israel has never been able to influence the fascist right, which was and remains a marginal wing of the Republican Party, so it has never been able to influence the progressive-radical wing, which unlike the fascist right has grown stronger in the last generation.
Along with the progressives (and the fascist right), since the establishment of the state, large sections of the political-security establishment in Washington have identified with the Arab school.
According to this view, Israel harms US relations with the Arab world, and therefore constitutes a burden on national security and harms US economic interests.
This camp has weakened greatly in the last decade because the Saudis and the Emirates have removed hostility to Israel from their agenda.
Hostility to Israel has been replaced by terror from Iran, which is accompanied by appreciation for Israel.
Israel, aircraft carrier
At least since the Six Day War, the anti-Israel camp has been a minority in the American public.
The pro-Israel majority camp consists mainly of two groups.
The first group consists of security hawks.
As Vice President Dick Cheney said at the time, Israel is seen by its friends as the "most powerful aircraft carrier" the United States has in the Middle East. Stable and solid US security.
The second camp - and the largest - is the faith camp, which consists mainly of evangelical Christians, who support Israel because they see Jews as a virtue, and in the State of Israel - the beginning of the growth of their redemption.
In the face of this complex but constant political situation in the United States, Israel has been facing for almost 75 years. , Generally supportive, but divided in its attitude toward us.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is today the most prominent representative of the one school.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, as well as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who resigned despite them, are today the leaders of the second school.
The first school (Netanyahu) takes as a permanent fact that Israel has no ability to influence the members of the progressive hostile camp, but is very aware of the fact that this camp is a minority in American public opinion, and that it also does not really control the Democratic Party.
This view says that the way to preserve American support for Israel is to support and strengthen Israel's supporters, among Democrats and Republicans alike.
This, among other things, by presenting Israel's interests without fear and in any situation.
To this camp method, and as we have seen over the years, by presenting clear lines to our friends in the US, Israel strengthens its friends and puts its enemies on the defensive, strengthens Israel's position in Washington, and also attracts the attention of countries and world Connect to her.
Most observers expect Democrats to lose in November.
The Republican majority is expected to take over the legislature, repealing the current internal government's progressive policies, and some foreign policies.
The second school emerges from an opposite point of view.
The premise of its supporters is that the anti-Israel camp, with its progressive and Arabist components, is omnipotent.
The State Department, for that matter, is the determinant of U.S. foreign policy. Israel's role is to improve its ways and try to reconcile the hostile camp, ignoring Israel's friends, who are the majority. Our radical leftist camp supports this approach because its members share American progressive ideology. Hostile to Israel. The Lapid camp advocates this approach for social reasons, mainly. They are part of the progressive and Arabist elite, and they have difficulty functioning among the hawks and evangelicals. "B.
As the example of Democratic lawmakers who oppose the nuclear deal shows, the government's submissive approach is a mistake.
The nuclear deal is not a closed deal.
Israel can and should stand by its friends in a joint struggle against it.
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