‘God Help Your Souls’

‘Don’t repeat the terrible mistake of 1938 when the enlightened democracies of Europe decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a temporary solution…’

Caroline Glick warns us, “the Biden administration is on the verge of closing its long-sought for nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Europeans distributed a “final draft” of an agreement to the Americans and the Iranians last week. While the text was billed as a “take it or leave it” offer, neither the Europeans nor the Americans walked away after Iran returned with reservations. Instead, President Joe Biden and his advisers are avidly looking into Iran’s positions and are reportedly trying to incorporate them into the agreement, which will likely be concluded quickly, if only the Iranians will agree.”

“..it is being undertaken after Iran announced it had crossed the nuclear threshold. In other words, Biden can’t plausibly claim that this is a non-proliferation deal. It is a deal that rewards proliferation—by the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Under Biden’s deal, by 2030, Iran will receive $1 trillion in sanctions relief—enough to transform Iran into a regional economic power as Tehran uses its nuclear arsenal to blackmail its neighbors.”

” Whereas legitimizing Iran’s nuclear arsenal and rewarding Iran’s illicit nuclear activities with a trillion dollars in sanctions relief ensures regional chaos and war, another U.S. concession is devastating for the world as a whole. According to media reports of the E.U. final draft, Biden has accepted Iran’s demand that the IAEA end its investigations of Iran’s undeclared nuclear installations. In other words, the United States has agreed to stop all residual efforts to enforce the NPT with regard to Iran. By agreeing to this Iranian demand, Biden and his advisers are destroying the remaining vestiges of the NPT and gutting the IAEA. “

” Not only does it give nuclear license to Iran, Biden’s agreement ushers in an era of nuclear chaos. “

‘God Help Your Souls’

By: Editorial, The NY Sun, Ausgust 24, 202:

‘Don’t repeat the terrible mistake of 1938 when the enlightened democracies of Europe decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a temporary solution,’ Prime Minister Sharon warned America in 2001.

The frantic pursuit of the Biden administration of articles of appeasement with Iran reminds us of a spat that erupted in 2001 between the new prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, and the new president of America, George W. Bush. The issue was Mr. Bush’s pursuit of a deal with the Palestinian Arabs. Mr. Sharon infuriated him by suggesting that Israel would not play the role of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Mr. Sharon refused to back down.

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Sharon was referring to the central feature of Munich. It was a deal that had been struck among four nations — Britain, France, Italy, and Germany — in respect of what to do about a fifth, Czechoslovakia. Yet the fifth was not a party to the talks. “If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world,” the Czech envoy, Jan Masaryk, said, “I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.”

This is the central flaw of the Iran appeasement. It is being pursued by six nations — the P5+1 comprising the five members of the United Nations Security Council plus, weirdly, Germany — about the fate of a seventh nation, Israel. Yet Israel, like Czechoslovakia of yore, is not a party to the talks, and, indeed, objects to them vociferously. Israel has been making that known, forthrightly, since the quest for a pact was begun.

“Don’t repeat the terrible mistake of 1938 when the enlightened democracies of Europe decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a temporary solution,” was how Sharon put it in 2001. “Do not try to placate the Arabs at our expense … Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.” President Bush brusquely chastised Sharon in public, but in his later memoir described him as “a leader who understood what it meant to fight terror.”

Today, our Benny Avni reports, “Washington is abuzz with talk about a pending return to the Iran nuclear deal,” with President Biden’s White House eager for a “public relations boost before the midterm election.” While Mr. Biden’s camarilla boasts of concessions from Tehran, Iran contends it’s the Americans who are bending. “There are technical details to be worked out, but very few,” a Congressional source mumbles.

The hapless Israeli premier, Yair Lapid, thus finds himself in the role of Masaryk. Today, Mr. Avni reports, he disparaged the terms contrived with the ayatollahs as a “bad” deal that “cannot be accepted as it is written right now.” The Israeli defense minister, Benny Gantz, is heading to Washington for meetings at the Pentagon. The mood in the region, Mr. Avni reports, points to “gearing up for military confrontation.”

Israel’s instinct in making its own arrangements for self-defense echoes the heroic Czechs, who, under the leadership in 1938 of Edvard Beneš, stood ready then to defend their nation against Nazi encroachment. It was the conflict-averse Neville Chamberlain, who, desperate for “peace in our time,” dismissed the dispute as “a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing” and betrayed the Czechs. ……