{"id":11357,"date":"2015-09-14T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11357"},"modified":"2015-09-14T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:52:57","slug":"the-iran-peace-deal-and-the-fall-of-aipac-bradcast-9142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11357","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Peace Deal and the Fall of AIPAC: ‘BradCast’ 9\/14\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the politicization of the Iran peace<\/i> deal by Israel and the Right in the U.S. is having serious consequences for both.<\/p>\n

Military analyst, adviser, author<\/a>\"\" and former naval commander Harlan Ullman<\/b><\/a> — credited with creating the ‘Shock and Awe’ doctrine<\/a>\"\" (no Leftie peacenick, he!) — joins me to explain why he believes the Iran deal is “potentially a strategic game-changer for the positive,” and how Republicans and Israel are both wrong to oppose it.<\/p>\n

“This agreement, if it is enforced and if it works, gives all sorts of strategic opportunities that will make the entire world<\/i> safer,” he tells me. “For whatever reason, Republicans and [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu don’t want to accept that, in large part because of their hatred and disagreement with the Obama Administration.”<\/p>\n

He believes “a more objective view needs to prevail,” but warns that the Obama needs to take special measures to ensure the deal remains enforced. (While I agree with Ullman on the issue, in general, you’ll see that there is much<\/i> we do not<\/i> agree about when it comes to just about everything else! So, I’m happy to find common ground with him on these points!)<\/p>\n

Then, former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC<\/a>) staffer, turned senior Congressional staffer, turned columnist M.J. Rosenberg<\/b>, joins me to discuss his recent column<\/a> on the fall of the nation’s once-most powerful Jewish lobby which, after spending millions to try and defeat the Iran deal, may have succeeded only in destroying itself. He explains why he believes that AIPAC made a fatal miscalculation in turning the fight against the agreement into a partisan issue. In the process, Rosenberg says, they have severely weakened the bi-partisan power they once wielded in both Congress and at the White House.<\/p>\n

Until now, he tells me, both Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate would “just roll over and play dead when Israel, the Israeli government or AIPAC wanted anything. If AIPAC says ‘vote no’, you vote no.” But those days, he believes, are now over and that’s good news, as he describes it, for both Palestine and<\/i> Israel. He goes on to note that the group no longer represents “the way most American Jews think” and now serves the interests of only “right wing Jews in Israel and right wingers here. Peace is not something that they believe in.”<\/p>\n

Two fascinating conversations on today’s show!<\/p>\n

Also on today’s BradCast<\/i>: Bernie Sanders seeks ‘common ground’ as he speaks to 12,000 students at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University<\/a>; Climate change consequences continue to hit home, from massive rainfall<\/a> in Japan to massive wildfires<\/a> now devastating huge swathes of Northern California…<\/p>\n

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