Members of the right-wing majority coalition in Israel’s Knesset, particularly Knesset members from Likud and the Jewish Home Party, have been filling the legislature’s docket with populist, anti-democratic bills.
Such bills will be front and center on the Knesset’s docket as it opens its Winter Session on Sunday, October 22, 2017.
As we expected, President Trump
decertified the Iran nuclear deal on October 17th but declined to kill it outright by imposing new sanctions.
Instead, he dropped the fate of the deal in the lap of Congress, hoping to make lawmakers complicit in US
violation of the terms of the JCPOA.
This would give Iran the green light to resume its nuclear program and increase the risk of escalation to an armed conflict with Iran. But that’s not all. It would mean that as the US and Israel seek to combat Iran’s nefarious activities in the Middle East we could be up against a nuclear-armed state. Further, the US would rupture relations with our allies and undermine our credibility, such that North Korea would have no reason to negotiate its nuclear disarmament.
We can’t let this happen. Tell Congress to preserve the Iran deal.
Quote of the day:
"Despite the ideological distance, geographic
proximity is more important than all, and creates a shared life. For that, we are here. Moti worked in Kafr Qassem,
he did not talk about coexistence—he lived it."
Produced by the Foundation for Middle East Peace in cooperation with Americans for Peace Now, where the Legislative Round-Up was conceived
Action Alert: Tell Congress to Save the Iran Deal, October,
2017
APN Backgrounder: What You Need to Know as Trump
Decides Iran Deal’s Fate, October 11, 2017
Briefing call with Robert Malley on the Iran Nuclear Deal,
October 10, 2017
The JCPOA at One Year: A
Clear Win for the US and Israel July, 2016
Diplomacy Produces
Good Iran Deal July 2015
Oped in the
Forward - 11 Lies Netanyahu Told Congress on Iran March 3, 2015
APN Analysis & Activism in Support of the P5+1
Negotiations with Iran, 2013-2015
On October 10, 2017, APN hosted a briefing call with Middle East conflict resolution expert Robert Malley on the Iran nuclear deal, days before President Donald Trump is expected to de-certify Iranian compliance with the deal the US, Great Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany reached with Tehran which constrains Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons.
