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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/bidens-build-back-better-message-to-iran-israel-and-the-arabs/
The Self-Defeating Claim that Efforts to Stop Iran's Nuclear Threat Are Counterproductive
(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - An article in the New York Times on Sunday claimed that everyone would be better off if Israel stopped its highly successful efforts at sabotaging Tehran's nuclear program and threatening to take military action if they feel the Islamist regime is getting close to a bomb. According to a "senior American official," Israel has been wasting its time trying to hobble the Iranians' efforts to develop the capacity to make good on their genocidal threats about eliminating the Jewish state. The idea that the West has no chance of halting the nuclear threat through covert actions or the use of military force is self-defeating. It's true that Iran has built back after suffering setbacks; however, think about how much closer it would be to a bomb if the Israelis hadn't been playing havoc with Tehran's facilities and putting the fear of God into scientists working on programs designed to facilitate the mass murder of Israeli Jews. The ayatollahs should take great comfort in the Biden team's latest article planted in the Times aimed at assuring them that the U.S. doesn't mean business when it comes to stopping their nuclear ambition. But Biden shouldn't think that even an Israeli government that would love to stay on good terms with him would acquiesce to an existential threat like that of a nuclear Iran. The chances that the Jewish state can be prevented from defending itself by American pressure are zero.