John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has forged an agreement on nuclear development with his Iranian counterpart. President Obama is seeking congressional approval for a treaty with our longtime nemesis, however Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has announced his opposition to an agreement by lending his support to a law designed to block the nuclear accord.
“This is a very serious issue that deserves careful consideration, and I expect to have a classified briefing in the near future. I strongly believe Congress should have the right to disapprove any agreement and I support the Corker bill which would allow that to occur,” wrote Schumer in an emailed statement to POLITICO, which came as no surprise since the New York senator is one of Israel’s staunch backers.
Other Democratic senators have also wavered on backing the President’s plan.
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Israeli special interest groups are pressing politicians to reject ‘peace at any cost’ with Iran.
Bibi Netanyahu has condemned the treaty as a death threat to the Israeli nation and members of his cabinet have suggested that the IDF will conduct air raids against the nuclear facilities in western Iran with or without US backing.
This declaration sounded very bellicose under taking into consideration that the IDF’s F-16 have a operational range of 2000 kilometers and the Iranian border is 1500 kilometers from Israel, meaning that any attack on Iran will be a suicide mission, unless the US provided refueling tankers for the raid across the air apace of Jordan, Iraq, and Iran. The first two countries would probably allow the overflights, but Iran has extensive Surface to air missile defenses as well as a large, but aging air force. Any offensive incursion would be risky, if not deadly for the attacker, so Schumer’s hawkish position is strictly words in an attempt to brainwash the American public into supporting any and all attacks on Iran, as shown by this part of a speech before rightwing Jews, “The Palestinian people still don’t believe in the Jewish state, in a two-state solution. More do than before, but a majority still do not. Their fundamental view is, the Europeans treated the Jews badly and gave them our land — this is Palestinian thinking […] They don’t believe in the Torah, in David […] You have to force them to say Israel is here to stay. The boycott of Gaza to me has another purpose — obviously the first purpose is to prevent Hamas from getting weapons by which they will use to hurt Israel — but the second is actually to show the Palestinians that when there’s some moderation and cooperation, they can have an economic advancement. When there’s total war against Israel, which Hamas wages, they’re going to get nowhere. And to me, since the Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas, while certainly there should be humanitarian aid and people not starving to death, to strangle them economically until they see that’s not the way to go, makes sense.”
Sorry, the rattling of sabers has nothing to do with Palestine.
That conflict is a sideshow this spring.
But I will never vote for Schumer again.
He has always been a warmonger only interested in preserving Israel’s right to oppress the Palestinians.
Shame.