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This week marks two years since the United States and the other nations of the P5+1 first agreed to the JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran. On this anniversary, we wanted to answer a few important questions about the impact of the deal, how it’s being viewed, and the prospects for its future.
Hawks said that members of Congress who supported the Iran nuclear deal would pay a political price. They were wrong. Champions of diplomacy fared well in 2016, and the deal continues to gain political support.
Imagine what the American Jewish community could do for Israel’s future and for the future of the US-Israel relationship if we stood together in defense of all of the values we hold dear -- not just religious pluralism, but on other issues as well.
The Chicago Dyke March is supposed to be an especially inclusive gathering of progressives. Shockingly, Jews carrying rainbow flags with the Star of David were asked to leave. One Dyke March collective member told the Windy City Times the women were told to leave because the flags "made people feel unsafe," that the march was "anti-Zionist" and "pro-Palestinian."
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will most likely “consider changing the decision” on placing metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told Army Radio on Thursday morning….On Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel has not backed down from its position on using metal detectors to check those entering the holy site. Netanyahu is expected to make a decision on the matter when he returns to Israel from his visit to France and Hungary on Thursday, after consulting with senior security officials, said Erdan….On Wednesday night the mufti of Jerusalem and the heads of the Waqf called on all imams in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas to not hold Friday prayers in their mosques but to come to Al-Aqsa for prayer instead. This unprecedented appeal could bring tens of thousands of worshippers to the Temple Mount compound. The army and police are preparing for confrontations in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza over the escalating tensions. The police said they are working under the assumption that the metal detectors will not be removed before Friday and are expecting broad disturbances at the site. The Jerusalem police will be reinforced by thousands of special police forces.”
Avi Gabbay, Israel’s Rising New Threat to Benjamin Netanyahu, New Yorker
Bernie Avishai writes, “Last Monday, Labor members narrowly elected Avi Gabbay, who was not even a member of the Party eight months ago, as their new leader. Seasoned pundits did not expect the win by Gabbay, who rose from a working-class Moroccan family to run Israel’s largest telecommunications company. His election could help Labor close its gap with working-class Israelis. ….[H]e has become the story and symbol of a new path to power for Labor. For decades, the Party has suffered from the same time type of disconnect from working-class voters that now seems to plague the Democratic Party in the U.S. Gabbay is trying to bring that dynamic to an end. His crack about Dimona superseding Amona summarizes the heart of his appeal. Before Gabbay, Mizrahim who disapproved of Likud’s support for settlers and the ultra-religious struggled to find common ground with Labor’s Ashkenazi élites, intellectual socialists, and union hacks. Gabbay, the former kid from a transit camp who rose to run an iconic corporation, might bridge the gap. As in all democracies, voters who feel the greatest economic stress are the least likely to read patiently through the policy arguments that more highly educated voters respect; they need to identify with a candidate—and, on rare occasions, even to trust and like him.”