Kerry Denies 'Unequivocally False' Claims of Betraying Israel by Tipping Off Iran By Reagan McCarthy
Kevin Sorbo, best known for his role in ‘Hercules: The Legendary Journeys’, boldly shared his conservative values during his prolific acting career. Hollywood’s response was to ostracize him. This is his story. Click here to watch.
GRAYSVILLE, Pennsylvania — When coal mine employee John Morecraft heard last Monday that United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts approved of President Joe Biden’s plan to move the nation’s energy industry away from fossil fuels, Morecraft said he anticipated the news would be misconstrued.
“I knew the story would come across as though all coal miners approved of this deal, with no mention of how [un]representative the UMWA is of the coal miner population,” said Morecraft, just before going down for his shift at the Bailey Mine here in Greene County.
”The UMWA in actuality represents a small portion of the people who work in the mines," Morecraft said. "What that means is, that deal was not made with the support of most of the people who do the work in the industry.”
He is not wrong.
According to the latest energy statistics for the U.S. government, there are 6,758 coal miners working underground in this country today who are members of the UMWA, compared to the 24,820 miners, such as Morecraft, who are not members of the union.
The same goes for the surface-mine workforce, where just over 3,000 are members of the UMWA, compared to the nearly 17,000 who are not.
Once a dominant force that represented virtually everyone working in the entire industry, the UMWA membership today is the smallest portion of the mining workforce.
Had you not really followed the decline of the UMWA membership over the decades and were sitting at home watching the news reports and thought, "Oh, wow, the coal miners are now backing Biden’s 'climate-justice' infrastructure package, maybe it is not that bad," you were misled.
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Israeli Cabinet Authorizes Major Military Op in Gaza
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Israel has no choice
but to act on its own to stop Iran
Israeli officials are pleading against more appeasement of
Tehran. But revelations about John Kerry’s past betrayal help explain the
administration’s refusal to listen.
Finally:
The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and the government’s national security adviser is in Washington this week on an important mission that has failed even before it began.
White House
spokesperson Jen Psaki made it clear last week that the Israelis are wasting
their time. When asked if Israeli pleas about the danger to the region if the
United States rejoins the 2015 nuclear deal would have any impact on President
Joe Biden’s plans, Psaki
answered “no.” She went on to say that the Israelis are free to
keep “challenging” the administration’s goal of returning to a weak pact that
gives Tehran a legal path to a nuclear weapon by the end of the decade, but the
best they could hope for is to be “kept abreast” of America’s plans.
That contemptuous
attitude was of particular significance because the day before the Israeli
security officials arrived, news broke about how former Secretary of State John
Kerry had shared intelligence with Iran about Israeli covert operations seeking
to stop their nuclear program. According to an audiotape of comments made by
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif that were obtained by The New York Times, he said, “It was former U.S. Foreign
Secretary [sic] John Kerry who told me Israel had launched more than 200
attacks on Iranian forces in Syria.”
There is a lot to
unwrap in that one sentence and not just because the Times buried this revelation at the bottom of
its story.
Kerry, for whom Psaki
served as spokesperson during the nuclear negotiations from 2013 to 2015,
currently acts as President Joe Biden’s special presidential envoy of climate.
We already knew that in 2018, Kerry consulted with Zarif advising
his former negotiating partner not to work with the Trump administration, which
withdrew from the nuclear deal as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign to
force the Iranians to agree to a new tougher agreement that would eliminate
sunset clauses, as well as include bans on Tehran’s role as the world’s leading
state sponsor of international terrorism and its illegal missile-building.
Kerry told
Zarif to simply wait out Trump and then deal with a more pliant
Democrat that he hoped would be elected in 2020.
That’s exactly what
happened, and now the Iranians are reaping the benefits. Biden’s foreign-policy
team, composed almost entirely of veterans of the administration of former
President Barack Obama, are again resuming their past practice of appeasing the
Iranians with concessions in the works in order to entice Tehran to return to a
deal with little hope of improving upon it.
Kerry’s collusion with
Iran is important because it comes in the context of the growing tension with
Israel over its efforts to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program. Unlike in the
past, when it was clear that the United States and Israel were cooperating in a
joint effort to derail the Islamist regime’s nuclear ambitions, the
administration went out of its way to disavow any
role in Israel’s recent successful
attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility.
The implication of
these off-the-record comments from “senior administration officials” is that
the administration regarded Israel’s efforts as seeking to forestall an
American push to re-engage with Iran. A news
analysis published in The Washington Post filled with quotes from anonymous
American and European sources, as well as some on-the-record potshots from
former Obama administration figures, said the Jewish state was trying to play
“the spoiler” in order to undermine Biden’s diplomacy. The liberal
magazine Slate labeled
the attack as an act of a “sneaky saboteur,” as if there was
something inherently illegitimate about actions that sought to prevent a
terrorist theocracy from acquiring a nuclear weapon that could fulfill the
ayatollah’s genocidal threats against Israel.
Sen. Chris Murphy
(D-Conn.) fulminated about
the attack, saying he would demand a full security briefing on it while sending
a message to the Israelis that he—and other members of his party—take it as a
matter of faith that diplomacy is the “only” acceptable path for relations with
Iran and that Israel’s efforts were bound to fail.
As Martin Peretz pointed
out in Tablet, while Secretary of
State Antony Blinken’s messaging on Iran has sounded a moderate tone, he has
essentially outsourced the nuclear issue to Robert
Malley, Biden’s special envoy on Iran. Malley was not only one of
the chief architects of the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran; he is a veteran
appeaser and critic of Israel.
In essence, right now
the United States is asking Israel to back off on its efforts to stop Iran and
to trust Biden’s team to deliver a diplomatic solution to the problem. But
given that Malley has demonstrated no interest in strengthening the nuclear
pact so as to forestall an Iranian bomb or stop the regime’s terrorism, that’s
a leap of faith that no responsible Israeli government can make.
More to the point,
Zarif’s revelation about Kerry’s sharing of intel about their anti-Iran
operations makes it clear to the Israelis that the administration isn’t merely
wrongheaded in its approach but may actively be seeking to undermine their
country’s security and that of its regional allies.
Not only did Psaki
refuse to answer a question about Kerry’s astonishing betrayal during her
regular press conference on Monday, she didn’t even make an attempt to say
something that might reassure the Israelis that the administration regarded
this as an issue of concern, let alone something about which an apology should
be forthcoming. An investigation into this scandal is imperative. So is Kerry’s
resignation from his current post.
The implication here
is something that advocates for Obama’s signature foreign-policy accomplishment
have always been at pains to contradict. Democratic apologists for the deal
have spent the last six years trying to claim that the agreement was the best
way to safeguard Israel against an Iranian nuclear weapon. However, critics
pointed to the way the deal empowered and enriched a rogue
regime, and asked whether the goal was very different from the one Obama had
discussed.
Obama said it was a
chance to give Iran the opportunity to “get right with the world” by giving up
its nuclear ambitions. Instead, the deal may have been part of an effort to
shift American policy in the region from one of an alliance with Israel and the
Gulf states to one in which Iran would supplant them as America’s best friend
in the region. Few would have believed this claim in 2015. And yet, the impact
of the agreement on the region, coupled with Kerry’s actions and the efforts of
Obama alumni to return to the deal on Biden’s watch, lend some credibility to
this theory.
Whatever Obama
intended or what Biden may want now, the inescapable conclusion from these events
is that the Israelis should be in no doubt about the fact that they are being
abandoned by the United States with respect to Iran. This leaves Israel with no
good options. Nevertheless, the Jewish state has no choice but to proceed as if
its future safety lies solely in its own hands. If the Biden administration or
the Democratic Party don’t like that, they can reverse course and start acting
as if they take the Iranian nuclear threat seriously. Otherwise, they should
pipe down and let the Israelis do what they must to stop an existential threat
to their existence.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News
Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/04/26/commander-of-irans-revolutionary-guard-warns-of-expanded-attacks-on-israel-amid-rocket-fire-from-gaza/
Commander of Iran’s
Revolutionary Guard Warns of ‘Expanded’ Attacks on Israel Amid Rocket Fire From
Gaza
The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami warned that recent attacks on Israel are poised to happen again and could be “expanded.”
In an interview with Al-Mayadeen,
the chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said that
the “evil deeds” committed by Israel in the region in recent days could
backfire and expose the country to “real dangers.”
Salami threatened that if Israel continued with its actions, the Islamic Republic is ready to respond in the same level or with stronger force as all “conditions for the collapse of Israel’s existence” existed.
Salami referenced to
the Syrian missile that
exploded in southern Israel last week and triggered warning sirens near the
secretive Dimona nuclear reactor. According to Israeli military, the missile
overflew its target to reach the Dimona area, 125 miles south of the Syrian
border. The missile exploded about 19 miles away from the Dimona reactor.
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