Israel still hopes it can square its position with the Biden administration
Negotiations were at a peak then between Iran and the P5+1 nations — which included the United States — on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known in the vernacular as the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran had threatened to wipe Israel off the map. The US promised to never sign a deal enabling Iran to build nuclear weapons. Wiesel dispensed some sage advice to Danon: “He told me I should listen more carefully to the threats of our enemies than to the promises of our allies.”
Danon retold this story to members of the foreign press in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day last week. He was trying to convey Israel’s growing concern over the Biden administration’s waltz in Vienna last week to entice Iran with unilateral concessions to return to the JCPOA. Danon also expressed Israel’s frustration with the US decisions to restore funding to the Palestinian Authority and to UNRWA — the agency responsible for perpetuating and overstating the Palestinian refugee issue.
When I asked Danon whether members of Biden’s foreign policy team were hostile to Israel, Danon drew back.
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