Discussion for article #240275
We have seen many times how public opinion gets out in front of the politicians (e.g. gay marriage). Never underestimate the power of people throughout the world demanding and acting upon a boycott of Israel in their financial and political choices in the future. The politicians who all seem to love swimming in pro-Israeli fund raising may wake up one day to find out that the voters are simply sick and tired of supporting an apartheid state. It would not be the first time the pols learned that the populace was really pissed off. Just ask the GOP how pissed off a portion of their supporters are these days.
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I understand why the writer thinks about the nuclear agreement in terms of Israel, and it’s obviously a plus that Israel won’t be hit by an Iranian atomic bomb, plus this is about American security and about avoiding war in the region. Bad enough we have to be concerned that a fundamentalist Sunni regime in Pakistan could get into a nuclear war with India or let terrorists get a hold of a bomb, but add in a potential war between fundamentalist Sunnis in Pakistan and fundamentalist Shias in Iran. Think about other nations near Iran deciding they need their own bomb. Saudi Arabia would almost surely want its own nukes if Iran has them.
So somehow I just can’t get concerned with whether the Israeli government likes it.
A soberly optimistic article; We have scotched the snake, not killed it.