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Netanyahu Emulates Churchill in Trying to Influence U.S. Policy to Protect Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Alan Dershowitz - President Obama accused Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of interfering in American foreign policy in lobbying against the Iran deal. But many foreign leaders have tried to influence U.S. foreign policy when their national interests are involved. Winston Churchill appeared in front of Congress and lobbied heavily to have America change its isolationist policy during the run-up to the Second World War. President Obama himself sent UK Prime Minister Cameron to lobby Congress in favor of the Iran deal. Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Abe lobbied the U.S. with regard to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Prime Minister Netanyahu's nation has a far greater stake in the Iran deal than most of the countries that negotiated it, but Israel was excluded from the negotiations. Recall that former Iranian Prime Minister Rafsanjani described Israel as a "one-bomb state" that could be destroyed instantaneously. The U.S. would surely not accept a deal negotiated by other nations that put its citizens at risk. Israel has every right to express its concern about a deal that has crossed not only its own red lines but the red lines originally proposed by President Obama.