Foreign Policy

Netanyahu's silly response to Iran deal.

"Secondly, since the Iran deal isn’t a treaty but rather an executive agreement, the President doesn’t even need the consent of Congress: what our solons will be voting on is a Republican-sponsored measure of disapproval. That measure will have new sanctions attached to it, and yet even if it does garner a super-majority, Israel’s amen corner will have scored a hollow victory, since no other countries will honor those sanctions, including especially the other signatories (Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China). This will merely underscore our weakness in the face of international opinion."

That gives Obama the power to veto.

"The real locus of Israel’s assault on the Vienna accord will take place over the coming months – and years – during which time they’ll be improving their intelligence capabilities in an effort to ferret out violations (or, rather, trumped up charges of violations) on Iran’s part. Accusations that Iran has violated the agreement won’t come directly from Israeli sources: Bibi’s bag men in the US and British media will be the preferred conduit, and we can expect the first fusillades shortly."

They've already started.

Republicans are cornered by Iran deal.

"They agreed to cut their centrifuges by two-thirds, to eliminate 98 percent of their uranium, to halt production of 20 percent uranium at Fordow, to convert the heavy-water reactor at Arak that produces plutonium to a light water reactor that produces one kilogram a year, and to let cameras in and give U.N. inspectors the run of their nuclear facilities.
And how is Israel, with hundreds of atom bombs, mortally imperiled by a deal that leaves Iran with not a single ounce of bomb-grade uranium?" 

It doesn't, but there's money to be made by attacking Iran.