This is virtually certain to fall on deaf ears. The foreign policy establishment will be fully back in the saddle, and that means more empowering of America’s enemies and abandoning of its allies.
“Netanyahu warns against reengaging with Iran, in apparent message to Biden,” Times of Israel, November 22, 2020:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an apparent message to US President-elect Joe Biden and his team, warned on Sunday against reengaging with Iran on the 2015 nuclear deal.
“We will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said at an annual memorial event for Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, in the southern kibbutz Sde Boker where Ben-Gurion lived.
“There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement. We must stick to an uncompromising policy of ensuring that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said.
The world must stop Iran’s “aggressive behavior, including its support for terror,” he said.
Netanyahu said Israel’s stance toward Iran played a part in Jerusalem’s warming ties with the Arab world. Israel in recent months achieved historic normalization agreements with three Arab states — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
“Thanks to our determined stand against the nuclearization of Iran, and to our opposition to the nuclear agreement with Iran,” Netanyahu said, “many Arab countries have fundamentally changed their approach to Israel.”
Netanyahu’s comments Sunday echoed his bitter opposition to the 2015 deal when it was being negotiated by the Obama administration, and contrast starkly with Biden’s pledge to “rejoin” the accord.
In March 2015, Netanyahu warned in a blistering address to the joint houses of Congress that the nuclear deal then taking shape between Iran and Western powers “paves the path for Iran” to a nuclear arsenal, rather than blocking it, and urged American leaders to walk away from what he called “a very bad deal.” The speech publicly underlined the profound differences between Netanyahu and president Barack Obama over how to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, with Netanyahu denouncing the Obama-backed deal when it was finalized later that year as a “historic mistake for the world.”
Hundreds of protesters, including Ben-Gurion’s grandson, gathered at Kibbutz Sde Boker ahead of Sunday’s speech to protest against Netanyahu, calling for his resignation over corruption charges.
Biden has lambasted US President Donald Trump for his 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear deal. During the presidential campaign, Biden pledged to return to a renegotiated version of the agreement if he won the election. Biden was vice president when Obama and the other P5+1 members finalized the deal.
Biden is generally expected to take a more conciliatory approach to Iran than Trump, who has levied punishing sanctions against Tehran and had its top general killed in January. Tehran appears open to discussions with the Biden administration….