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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s speech to the June 5, 2023 AIPAC Policy Summit shamefully reiterated and promoted Biden administration policies that are extraordinarily hostile to our greatest and most reliable human rights-loving ally, the Jewish country of Israel.
Sadly, we are not surprised. Blinken promoted similar policies in his more detailed speech to the extremist, Soros-funded anti-Israel group J Street in December 2022; and President Biden promoted these policies in statements during his Middle East trip last July.
Blinken’s policies contradicted the empty “lip service” that Blinken gave to the need for a strong Israel, when Biden (correctly) asserted during his AIPAC speech “America is more secure when Israel is strong.” Blinken’s use of such lip service, combined with his use of euphemisms for his hostile policies, meant that some AIPAC attendees may not have been aware of how terrible Blinken’s and Biden’s policies are. For instance, Blinken’s reiteration of Biden’s call for supporting a Palestinian Arab State (which is now a terrorist dictatorship) based on the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed swaps” is in reality a call for creating a Hamas-Fatah-Hezbollah-Iranian-Palestinian-Arab terror state on lawful Jewish/Israeli land that divides Israel; divides the Jewish people’s holiest city, Jerusalem; and renders Israel indefensible by making her nine miles wide.
It’s also concerning that during his J Street speech, Blinken vowed to “stand with” J Street; and stated that J Street is “now more needed than ever.” By contrast, Blinken made no such vows to AIPAC. Blinken thus again revealed that the Biden/Blinken administration’s policies are those of the extremist anti-Israel J Street.
Blinken’s dangerous policy statements included:
(1) Blinken Still Calls for “Diplomacy” with Iran: Blinken told AIPAC: “We continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way (despite a decade of diplomatic failure) to verifiably, effectively, and sustainably prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. In parallel, economic pressure and deterrence reinforce our diplomacy. If Iran rejects the path of diplomacy, then – as President Biden has repeatedly made clear – all options are on the table.”
It's important to note that, as usual, Blinken refused to use the phrase “military option.”
If Iran rejects diplomacy? Iran has been rejecting the path of diplomacy throughout the last two-and-a-half years of failed Biden administration appeasement and Biden/Blinken ignoring some sanctions.
Meanwhile, as the recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) May 31, 2023 report notes, Iran has increased its enrichment and other nuclear activities; stopped providing the IAEA with access to data in February 2021 (one month after Biden took office); and removed IAEA monitoring equipment a year ago, in June 2022. (Yet, in Blinken’s J Street speech, Blinken falsely blamed the Trump administration’s successful “maximum pressure” sanctions for Iran’s violations.) It is deeply concerning and dangerous that Blinken still refuses to acknowledge that Iran rejected diplomacy from the outset of the Biden administration; and that the Biden administration is still failing to take the necessary action to counter Iran.
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