It took a while, but Israeli security experts are now out on the subject of the Iranian nuclear agreement-- and Bibi don' like it.
Ben-Yisrael, who has twice won the Israel Prize for contributions to Israel’s weapons technology, told Walla! News that the Vienna agreement is “not bad at all, perhaps even good for Israel.” True, Iran still calls for Israel’s destruction. But, he said, from the nuclear perspective — which is what the negotiations were about — “it prevents a nuclear bomb for 15 years, which is not bad at all.”
Halevy, the former Mossad director, elaborated on Ben-Yisrael’s point in a scathing Ynet op-ed . From the start, Israel “maintained that the Iranian threat is a unique, existential threat.” It wanted the international community to address the threat, and it did. “That was the only goal of the biting sanctions against Iran,” he wrote.
Now, he stated, the government tries “to change the rules of the game and include additional demands from Iran in the agreement, like recognizing Israel and halting support for terror.” By threatening to block an agreement that addresses Israel’s “existential-cardinal” goal because it doesn’t address other, nonexistential issues, Halevy wrote, Netanyahu raises the suspicion that he doesn’t want a deal at all.
http://forward.com/...
No pay wall.
Many other names are mentioned in the article, which I don't want to copy too much of. Also stressed is that many civilian politicians are remaining silent rather than have their patriotism questioned by Netanyahu's Likudnik thugs. What's more, the story claims that Netanyahu has squelched all discussion of the topic within the government.
Hard to really know how close the balance on this deal is in the US Congress, but the clear statements of informed people who have spent their lives studying these matters ought to (and will with those whose mind remains open) count for more than the braying of Israeli and American politicians focused on the existential horror of not getting their way yet again the Middle East.
Israel has never feared an Iranian nuclear attack, but has cynically run its Iranian nuke scam to keep the sanctions in place and preserve her regional hegemony. She has become addicted to their geopolitical payoff; now she faces a brutal withdrawal. Of course Israel doesn't want a deal.