From surreptitious efforts to effectively capitulate to Iran, to
contending with a hornet's nest of Palestinian terror, this week's
Action Update, unfortunately, brings challenging news.

**Shhh.... President Biden Has a Secret Plan**

It must be a day ending in "y." The Biden administration has decided
to, yet again, look for a path to thwart the will of Congress, the
American people, and our allies by making what very well seems to be an
unwritten, but spoken, agreement with Tehran concerning its nuclear
program. In a nutshell, the U.S., which has already lessened the
intensity with which it pursues legally mandated sanctions against the
Islamic Republic, is now seeking to make a small, silent, and shaky
agreement with Iran that will leave Tehran richer and enable Iran to
maintain its status as a nuclear threshold state. A far cry from the
"longer and stronger" approach promised by this administration.

This is both strategically unacceptable and legally indefensible.
According to reports, under the small, silent, and shaky deal, Iran
would be able to enrich uranium to a level that makes it fissile but
voluntarily chooses not to do so (with a huge assumption that Iran is
not doing so clandestinely). This would immediately enable Tehran to
engage in a consistent campaign of nuclear blackmail against Israel, the
U.S., Saudi Arabia, and anyone else Tehran doesn't care for. And in
turn, make the Biden administration its lobbyists against any effort to
pressure the regime.

Legally, as House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul
articulated in a letter to President Joe Biden last week, Congress
advanced the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) when it was clear
that then-President Obama would have preferred making a deal with Iran
without sending it to Congress for approval (We know.... Democracy is
just such a hassle!).  According to McCaul, "INARA was enacted with
strong bipartisan support to ensure Congressional oversight of U.S.
policy regarding Iran's nuclear program. It requires the President to
submit to Congress within five days any nuclear agreement reached with
Iran." And most importantly, McCaul writes that the definition of a
deal "makes clear that any arrangement or understanding with Iran,
even informal, requires submission to Congress."

As such, if President Biden proceeds with this small, silent, and shaky
Iran deal, he will be enabling Iran's nuclear ambitions, violating
INARA, and undermining the will of The American people - the
overwhelming majority of whom support Congressional review of the deal.

**Jenin is the Capital of West Bank Palestinian Terror**

In recent days, Israel's military conflicts with Palestinian
terrorists in Jenin have reached a fever pitch. So significant has the
issue become, with seven Israeli soldiers wounded, that Monday, the
Israelis called in close air support for ground troops operating in the
West Bank for the first time in years.

That specific incident took place when, predictably, Palestinian
terrorists fired on an Israeli helicopter evacuating wounded soldiers.
At that point, Israel called in an Apache helicopter gunship to
eliminate the threat to the wounded Israelis and those seeking to save
them.

According to reports, the fighting in Jenin has been highly intense with
one commentator simply saying, "Jenin is out of control." It is
likely Israel will be compelled to engage in a more significant military
operation - as opposed to individual strikes aimed at stopping specific
terror groups and attacks upon which Israel has been focused - in the
coming weeks or months.

It should be noted that the U.S. is far from blameless in the wider
problem of Palestinian terrorism. By supporting entities like UNRWA, the
Biden administration frees up Palestinian Authority (PA) funds that
should be spent on infrastructure and humanitarian work, and in doing
so, enables the PA to continue its pay-to-slay terror program, unabated.
But at the end of the day, the fault here lies with those Palestinians
that support terror, and there are many. 

**What Partner for Peace?**

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As readers of the Update are well aware, from the day of its modern
founding the Jewish state has made numerous offers to the Palestinians
in an effort to bring peace to the Holy Land. All of these offers have,
of course, been rejected. President Bill Clinton famously placed the
blame for the failure to achieve peace during his time in office on
Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat's intransigence. Conversely, foreign
policy elites seek to attribute the failure of peace talks to
differences on specific issues, and then they press Israel to
inappropriately compromise on those issues.

The foreign policy elites are wrong. And while President Clinton was
right, he was describing the symptom, not the disease.

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research - hardly a
pro-Israel bastion - released a poll of Palestinians with some deeply
troubling, but highly illuminating, results. Here are a few key
findings:

* 71% of Palestinians support the existence of terrorist groups.

* 86% of Palestinians reject the idea that the PA has the right to
arrest those planning terror attacks against Israel.

* 66% of Palestinians do not believe Israel will exist in 25 years.

* 84% of Palestinians believe the PA is corrupt.

* Finally, if elections were held today, PA President Abbas would lose
to Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh by a whopping 23
points.

Bottom line, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (of blessed
memory) and current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both
articulated that "If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there
would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons
‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel." The polling above, as
well as the ever-increasing threat of Palestinian terrorism, indicate
that Bibi is as right today as Golda was when she first uttered the
phrase.

In the coming weeks, the Action Fund Team will be putting together our
legislative agenda for the upcoming CUFI Summit. We look forward to
sharing it with you, and for those who will be joining us at the CUFI
Summit, we look forward to seeing you in Washington in just a few weeks.

Sincerely,

The CUFI Action Fund Team

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