2020 plan brings back Obama
strategy of making friends with America’s enemies.
By Carol S. Greenwald
The Jewish Voice
Democrats’ crowing that their 2020 platform on
Israel is a victory for the moderates is disingenuous. The Democrat party’s
2020 platform is not pro-Israel. It is pro-Iran.
The Democrat
party’s platform promises to return to the Iran nuclear deal and rejects regime
change “as the goal of U.S. policy toward Iran.” The opening statement of the
platform stresses:
“Democrats will
call off the Trump Administration’s race to war with Iran and prioritize
nuclear diplomacy, de-escalation and regional dialogue. Democrats believe the
United States should not impose regime change on other countries and reject
that as the goal of U.S policy towards Iran.”
Translation:
Obama’s appeasement of Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions is back.
A nuclear Iran is
an existential threat to Israel. The Obama/Biden administration handed $150
billion to the Iranian mullahs, which financed both Iran’s nuclear program and
its financing of global terrorism. This money propped up a regime that had been
facing strong internal opposition. Biden’s campaign promise to return to the
Iran nuclear deal on Day One is memorialized in the Democrats’ platform. They
will undo President Trump’s stringent sanctions which are destroying the
economic base of the Iranian regime. This one action alone undermines all the
Democrats’ assurances about support for a “strong, secure, democratic Israel.”
A nuclear Iran by
definition makes Israel insecure.
The platform does not guarantee that Israel will
remain a Jewish state. The language in the platform before 2012 made clear that
there was no Palestinian right of return to Israel. Removing the explicit
language that Palestinians have a right to resettle is creating another existential
threat to Israel.
The Democrats’
platform promises to oppose any effort “to unfairly single out and delegitimize
Israel.” Who is going to define “unfairly?” According to Democrats, BDS is not
unfairly singling out Israel; it is protected free speech.
The Democrat platform’s opposition to settlement
expansion will lead to the same endless criticism of Israel that marked the
Obama/Biden administration. What is settlement expansion? Is it adding
bathrooms to existing structures, as Obama/ Biden insisted? Memorably, Biden
threw a temper tantrum when Israeli authorities had the temerity to announce an
advance in a stage towards building permits for homes in a Jerusalem
neighborhood while Biden was in town. With that outburst, Biden has signaled
just how shaky his pledge is to keep Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The
platform never reveals its definition of Jerusalem’s boundaries.
And while the
document affirms Biden’s statements that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and
that he would not move the embassy back to Tel Aviv, Biden has also said that
he would open a consulate in eastern Jerusalem for the Arab Palestinians. So
are the Democrats creating a new entity of East Jerusalem? So much for the
denunciation in the Democrats’ platform of unilateral steps, which apparently
only refer to ones taken by Israel.
The Democrats’
party platform, with its firm opposition to Israel extending sovereignty to
Jewish communities, also leaves the Palestinian Authority with no incentive to
negotiate with Israel. No, with this platform, everything reverts back to the
PA simply waiting for the inevitable appeasement by a Democrat administration
and pressuring of Israel to make still more concessions just to bring the PA
“back to the table.”
While the Democrats’ platform does not tie U.S.
military aid to Israel renouncing its sovereignty in areas beyond the 1949
Armistice Lines, Senator Van Hollen (D-MD) led an effort joined by 19 Democrat
senators to block U.S. military aid if Israel uses it to “annex territory.”
Well, that sure sounds like the Democrats are gearing up to tie military aid to
controlling Israel’s internal decisions.
The Democrats’ 2020
platform is a return to the Obama policy of appeasement to Iran’s nuclear
ambitions and to Iran’s plans for regional hegemony. According to former
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, “The Biden/Obama administration
deliberately damaged the relationship between the United States and Israel.”
So the Democrats’
claim that the 2020 Platform reveals that the Progressive wing of the
Democratic party was shut down was greatly exaggerated. (AmericanThinker.com)
Carol S. Greenwald is Chairman of Jews Choose Trump
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