ISRAEL HAYOM
by Ret Ambassador Yoram Ettinger
July 19, 2015

….A reasonable alternative to the July 2015 agreement with Iran would reject the Carter state of mind, resurrecting U.S. confidence in its moral and strategic exceptionalism and restore U.S. power-projection and posture of deterrence. A common sense alternative to the agreement with Iran would predicate benefits to Iran upon an end to the current conventional threats to global stability….A common sense alternative would focus on the 36-year lawless, rogue, violent, supremacist, megalomaniac, non-tolerant, repressive and systematically noncompliant track record of the ayatollahs, who consider the U.S. the prime obstacle — and therefore the prime target — on the road of attaining their prime historical goal of regional and global hegemony. A common sense alternative would precondition the $150 billion windfall granted to the ayatollahs (37% of their gross domestic product) — in addition to the mega-billion dollar flow of oil revenues ($60 billion annually), foreign investments and advanced military systems (fortifying their nuclear infrastructure) — upon ending their 36-year anti-U.S. policy. READ MORE