{"id":1122623,"date":"2021-12-15T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122623"},"modified":"2021-12-15T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:14:12","slug":"report-obsessed-joe-biden-puts-israeli-settlements-on-equal-footing-with-iran-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-obsessed-joe-biden-puts-israeli-settlements-on-equal-footing-with-iran-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; \u2018Obsessed\u2019 Joe Biden Puts Israeli Settlements on Equal Footing with Iran Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-obsessed-joe-biden-puts-israeli-settlements-on-equal-footing-with-iran-nukes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Biden administration has deemed the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be as severe as the nuclear threat from Iran, the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/obsessed-biden-administration-put-settlements-on-par-with-iran-nukes-688721\">cited<\/a> multiple Israeli diplomatic sources as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Americans bring up \u2018settler violence\u2019 all the time, obsessively,\u201d the report quoted a senior diplomatic source as saying.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz\u2019s visit to Washington last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted on devoting an equal amount of time to discussing both Iran and the settlements \u2013 a fact Israeli diplomats found \u201cbaffling,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken told Gantz that Israel\u2019s decision to build apartments for Jews in the settlements was \u201cdestroying the chance of a two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the paper quoted a different source who said the Palestinian issue, though discussed, was \u201cnot the focus of the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_3568281\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/west.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3568281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/west.jpg\" alt=\"settlements\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>An Israeli flag flies near a sign indicating the way to the Palestinian village of Susya, south-east of Hebron, in the West Bank (Getty).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting with the secretary of state was friendly and mostly dealt with the Iranian matter,\u201d the unnamed source added.<\/p>\n<p>News of the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cobsession\u201d comes after a meeting between Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and Israel\u2019s&nbsp;Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev.<\/p>\n<p>Bar Lev tweeted a photo of the meeting and explained that Nuland was \u201cinterested, among other things, in settler violence and a way to reduce regional tensions and strengthen the Palestinian Authority,\u201d prompting Israeli&nbsp;Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to lash out at him for not mentioning ongoing terror by Palestinians on Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Mossad spy chief David Barnea also traveled to Washington last week to discuss Iran with top U.S. officials. Meanwhile, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is due to visit Israel next Wednesday to discuss Tehran.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In Vienna, world power delegates have said the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal is no longer relevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of this moment, we still have not been able to get down to real negotiations,\u201d&nbsp;senior European diplomats told reporters of the talks to return to the deal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3242301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3242301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/wine.jpg\" alt=\"BDS\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Amichai Luria presents a bottle of his wine, used mainly for export, at the Shilo winery in the Jewish settlement of Shilo in the West Bank (Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are wasting precious time dealing with new Iranian positions inconsistent with the JCPOA or that go beyond it,\u201d the diplomats said. \u201cTime is running out. Without swift progress, in light of Iran\u2019s fast-forwarding of its nuclear program, the JCPOA will very soon become an empty shell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, responded on Twitter: \u201cSome actors persist in their blame game habit, instead of real diplomacy. We proposed our ideas early, and worked constructively and flexibly to narrow gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiplomacy is a two-way street. If there\u2019s a real will to remedy the culprit\u2019s wrongdoing, the way for a quick, good deal will be paved,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has deemed the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be as severe as the nuclear threat from Iran, the Jerusalem Post cited multiple Israeli &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}