Why Does Netanyahu Want To Sabotage The Iran Nuclear Deal?

[Purveyor]

After a decade of deadlock, the historic interim deal signed in Geneva represents the first significant victory for Iran and the six world powers. Reaching a final deal would also be a victory for the Israel because it will guarantee that Iran would never have the means to develop nuclear weapons. So, why does Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently oppose this win-win agreement and call it "a historic mistake"?

Focus on Israel

Creating a Palestinian state living side-by-side with Israel in "peace and security" has always been US President Barack Obama's priority along with the Iranian crisis. If world powers find a way out of the Iranian nuclear crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be back at the top of the international community's agenda.

Israeli settlement expansion represents a violation of international law and the deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process gives Netanyahu's coalition government space to keep "authorising" more construction in the Occupied Territories. As a reminder, Netanyahu's Likud (centre-right) party formed a pro-settlement coalition - from centrist to far-right political parties - to win the election. The Minister of Housing and Construction, Uri Ariel, stated that "there can only be one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea - Israel".

Netanyahu's coalition government logically finds an interest in maintaining the status quo with the Palestinians. Moreover, the failure of the Geneva agreement would keep the international community's focus on Iran rather than the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Additionally, ending the Iranian nuclear crisis will put the UN conference on a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons back on the world powers agenda with greater credibility. The issue of Israel's nuclear arsenal will then become almost impossible to dodge, which could eventually jeopardise Israel's regional arms hegemony.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/why-netanyahu-wants-sabotage-iran-nuclear-deal-201312277257799690.html

[Warpy]

1. He wants Iran gone as a threat

and he wants us to do his dirty work for him, something the neocons have been eager to do for a couple of decades.

We did his dirty work for him in Iraq. Look how that worked out.

[jsr]

2. Recommend

[bigdarryl]

3. Because he's a TOTAL!!! Dick

[Gman]

4. Nobody gets rich off of peace

Whereas war has lots of profit potential.

[Niceguy1]

5. maybe he is bored since

Netflix dropped King of the hill ?