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In reply to the discussion: Israelis are understandably not thrilled with the Iran deal [View all]geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)some sympathy.
But, all they do is sit back and throw spitballs at the United States when the US is going above and beyond to scale back Iran's nuclear program. All they do is complain about how the US is betraying them, and that the only acceptable outcome is for Iran to capitulate completely. Not content to try to order the US around, now they're trying it with France, Germany, the UK, Russia and China.
Their latest demand is that Iran recognize Israel. As if that was part of the sanctions regime in the first place.
The US had nuclear missiles pointed at us from a guy who pounded his show on the UN lectern threatening to bury us.
We coped.
And so Israel needs to learn to cope with hostile regimes whom it can't crush militarily as it does to the people of Gaza and Lebanon.
Israel has never engaged in diplomacy on this issue. Only rejectionism and shrill hyperbole.
Time for them to grow up and treat the rest of the world as adults, and to shed their colossal arrogance.