US pragmatists mobilizing against Zionists' anti-Iran campaign: Analyst
Pragmatist forces in the United States have mobilized against Israel’s campaign of exerting pressure on Washington to maintain a “belligerent stance” towards Iran, a political commentator in Toronto says.
“Israel doesn’t want the [nuclear] deal because Israel wants to maintain its belligerent and militaristic stance towards Iran and it wants the United States to mimic that stance,” Brandon Martinez told Press TV on Wednesday.
“It wants to capitalize on any kind of fissures between these two nations; to exploit any kind of differences, to exacerbate those differences as part of this ‘divide and conquer’ strategy,” he said.
Martinez praised the release of an open letter on Tuesday by three dozen retired US generals and admirals supporting the Iran nuclear agreement and urging Congress to do the same.
The military signers include US Marine Generals James Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Joseph Hoar, former head of the US Central Command, as well as Generals Merrill McPeak and Lloyd Newton of the Air Force.
“These US generals have called on Obama to see this (Israeli efforts) through, to rebut these warmongers in Washington and Tel Aviv who are trying to ruin the deal,” Martinez said.
The letter also shows that “there is a growing rift between the national security establishment in the US and Israel,” he added.
On Saturday, 29 top US scientists, including some of the world’s leading experts in the fields of nuclear science and arms control, wrote to President Barack Obama to praise the nuclear agreement with Iran.
The letter was sent to Obama from highly knowledgeable scientists, including Nobel laureates, original designers of nuclear weapons and former White House science advisers, according to The New York Times.
These letters are “a positive sign that more and more people are backing Obama’s deal and opposing the Zionists on this,” Martinez said.
“These realists have basically mobilized against this Zionist campaign, which has been so intense and brash in its pursuit of this deal," he noted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fiercely opposed to the agreement, and pro-Israel groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have been in the forefront of a campaign to build public opposition to the deal.
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