The US and Israel will meet on Thursday through a working group headed by each country’s national security advisor. The talks are expected to be focused on Iran.
“On March 11, the United States and Israel will hold the first virtual US-Israel Strategic Consultative Group meeting, led by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat,” the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.
The White House said that the discussions will cover “regional issues” and did not mention Iran by name, but a source told The Times of Israel that the talks will be focused on collaborating on Iran policy. A similar working group was established during the Obama administration, although the meetings were not made public, and the group was disbanded over Israel’s opposition to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to avoid a confrontational relationship with President Biden. To do this, Netanyahu’s and Israel’s opposition to the new administration rejoining the JCPOA is expected to be conveyed through this working group.
Robert Malley, Biden’s Iran envoy, said on Wednesday that the US does not want a repeat of the contentious relationship with Israel when the JCPOA was first negotiated and signed. “We don’t always agree, but the talks are extremely open and positive. While we may have different interpretations and views as to what happened in 2015–2016, neither of us wishes to repeat it,” he said.
So far, the Biden administration has yet to make a sincere effort to revive the JCPOA. Biden officials are saying they want to restore the deal, but Iran remains under crippling economic sanctions. Besides the pressure from Israel, President Biden is also under intense domestic pressure not to return to the original agreement.
Isreal and netanyahoo to the hague, and the I.C.C…. Now
However – “The Hague Invasion Act”. No person from either of those countries will ever set foot in the ICC – whilst other countries lack the courage to stand up to them.
NeoNazis to the Hague.
That’s like inviting the head of the KKK to discuss whether black people should be treated as equals.
Nothing will come out of this meeting except threat to use force….! And that is only Threat…! US or Israel or both cannot attack Iran because they know counterattack will be monumental…!
If an emergency department doctor had to choose between helping someone having a heart attack versus someone with a broken arm, we would consider it malpractice if the doctor ignored the person having a heart attack & gave all his attention to the person with a broken arm. The 32 countries with the worst Human Rights records are:
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uganda, Belarus, Qatar, Nigeria, Gabon, DR Congo, Republic Congo, Cameroon, Togo, Chad, Central African Republic, Palestine, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Albania, Kyrgystan, Venezuela, Pakistan, Malawi, Niger, Equatorial Guinea, Myanmar, Mauritania, Libya, Cuba, Russia, Kuwait, South Sudan, Syria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Somalia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea. To ignore the suffering of the people in these countries while focusing all attention on Israel, a liberal democracy, is the equivalent of malpractice.
“The 32 countries with the worst Human Rights records are”
Source?
“To ignore the suffering of the people in these countries while focusing all attention on Israel, a liberal democracy”
What makes you assume that people ignore the suffering of people in those other countries?
And what kind of “liberal democracy” denies the vote and Knesset representation to 29% of the people it rules, bans political parties, censors the press, and imprisons whistleblowers?
Johnson’s point is right.I rarely see any criticism of the totalititarean countries listed above on this site.. Israel can be rightly criticized, but most of your guests see the US and Israel as the source of all the worlds evil, and spit venom and bilge.
#1: We should focus on our country, as it’s our country, we pay its taxes and its actions are in our name.
#2: the only reason we care especially for Israel is because we pay $3-$5 billion to it every year, carry its water at the UN, and otherwise guarantee its local safety, which drags us into all manner of conflicts.
That’s a start.
I’m glad it annoys you.
What annoys me is empire. Israel is just one more reason for entangling alliances abroad, which any patriotic American should be against.
You have not called for withdrawa lof our forces from NATO or the far East.Somehow-that OK with you.I wonder why.
I have literally called for NATO to be disbanded as an anachronism and for all our overseas bases to be repatriated to the local populations.
“Peace and free trade with all, entangling alliances with none” … You follow?
I wish it were so.However, human nature includes the thirst for power, and China, and Russia will expand to fill the gaps.
If it did “annoy” him why would that make you “glad”? All he said was that we should focus on our own problems, mind our damned business and not give away our tax dollars. Seems like something we should all want. Unless you put the needs of another country before your own.
Your snotty foolish comments bore me. You have called me an”Israel Firster”, and now imply that I am disloyal. These things are no more true than saying that you are a skinhead. I try to provide a balanced approach, which frightens you. Yes,our tax dollars should be spent on our own people, but reducing foreign aid will not be even a drop in the bucket in terms of our deficit.Why do we commit our lives and money to maintain bases to protect Germany,Japan, and Taiwan-same story.
“I’m glad it annoys you.”
Your words. And they were in response to Caliman’s comment about Israel. So I guess my “Israeli Firster” description was accurate. And to say you “try to provide a balanced approach” has got to be a joke or you don’t have a clue what “balanced” means. Your take on foreign aid is accurate, it is a drop in the bucket as regards to our national deficit but it’s hardly a drop in the bucket to any state, or states, that would be on the receiving end of that money. And when I talk foreign aid I’m including ALL of it and not just the parasite that sucks the most from our treasury.
Yes, many of our commenters are particularly obsessed with Israel and Palestine, in some cases more so than is justified.
You are among those commenters. So is Johnson11b. The only time HE brings up those other countries is to bellyache about how mean people are to his preferred authoritarian garrison ethno-state.
I see some of the things that Israel does as wrong-no Arab villages should be destroyed at this point, for example, or should have been destroyed after 1967.I comment to offset the undo animus and closet bigotry that underlies some of your guests.
By the way,maintaining a garrison state as you call it,is better than being abused, tormented,expelled, and exterminated.
It’s “Antiwar.com”, not “do-gooder.com” … this site is about war and opposing it and US and Israel are the biggest abusers of force and users of tools of war in the world the past 70 years.
The countries you list do not come close to us or Israel is warmaking or warthreatening.
Excrement. 600,000 dead in Uganda. 150,000 killed in Chechnya, 300,000 in the Sudan, Two million killed by organized genocide in Cambodia.
I suggest you leave the Ugandans, Chechens, and Sudanese deal with their own affairs and we concentrate on ours, which should not include anything to do with the ME. Us not causing famine, death, and destruction abroad should be what we care about.
You stated that the US and Israel are the biggest abusers of force-I proved to you otherwise.
Alright, last reply, because it’s pointless to argue with someone being paid to not understand.
Listen chap, our soldiers have, over the past 75 years, been responsible for millions of dead and tens of millions of disrupted lives in places ranging from Korea and Vietnam, Chile and Guatemala, Iraq and Syria and Libya and countless others. NO ONE COMES CLOSE.
So, when you loose an argument,you point your infantile finger and accuse others of being some sort of paid agent, while you cannot see your own biases.
No, he didn’t “loose” an argument. We’ve killed an estimated 20 million people since WW2 and created one failed state after another. But I don’t think you were trying to defend the US as much as you were Israel. Another example of you being an “Israeli firster”.
Fine-Nazi-Nazi-Nazi.A man who denies Iran’s warlike status.
That would fit if I ever once said anything that could be construed as me being a Nazi. You, on the other hand make comment after comment proving you are an Israeli firster. And I don’t defend Iran. If we were applying a “maximum pressure campaign” against Israel, I’d be bitching about that equally.
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The US and Israel have the resources and the brain power to make peace in the Middle East but refuse to do so, why? According to Netanyahu ” Israel can never fully integrate with Arabs and others “because they are not like us, all they understand is brute force” and if we integrate “we will be absorbed by the indigenous population. Because of this bigotry, peaceful coexistence has been sacrificed and the US is a full partner in these crimes against humanity.
Not to defend Netanyahu, but in the Arab countries as well as Europe, most often Jews were despised and poorly treated, and ultimately expelled. This is a tiny reservation.
Judging by how the israelies act today, is no wonder the citizens of Europe and the middle east, and much of the world despise their acts of evil intent.
Meanwhile,Europe still persecutes Gypsies, and hides behind a US nuclear umbrella. During the cold war,Europe had a fantasy that in the event of Soviet invasion, the US and USSR would nuke each other, so Europe would remain safe. both Europe and the Mideast conflate Israel with Jews, and subject Jewish people peacefully walking about to bashing Most Mideastern countries are Judenrein..During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Europe was lax in facing terrorist attacks against others-now they face it themselves.
“both Europe and the Mideast conflate Israel with Jews”
As do you and other Zionists, when you’re playing for sympathy for Israel.
“Who is the Super Power here???” Who’s agenda drives this propossed meeting….???? Perhaps we could discus welfare clients who go rogue and try to muzzle their donor about their human rights violations on an outrageous scale, shooting and murdering unarmed peaceful demonstrators who are women and children to enforce a system of apartheid that is repugnant to virtually all but them. Who’s agenda drives this proposed “meeting”????
I would imagine they talked about how they can force Iran back to the table without giving anything in return , they know they can`t attack Iran that would be the end of the jews and the Saudis .
I doubt that it would be the end of the Jews, seeing as how 70% of Jews don’t live in Israel.
If nukes fly, NYC and DC likely will die too. That has always been an assumption behind deterrence.
Nuclear war would change the world, not just assumptions but populations and inhabited places.
I am reminded of the rush of US and Russian nuclear war experts to India and Pakistan when they came to the brink, taking to them details of just exactly what they would really do to each other and themselves. They did not have the awful data assembled by the US and USSR nuclear weapons effects testing, so they were told.
It is too easy to think like the US Navy did before the Bikini bomb tests, when it thought it could wash off the test fleet and sail it back home for closer study after the tests. It is not obvious, and not what is too easily assumed by some raving war mongers.