We at EMET want to wish you a joyous Chanukah. Chanukah is a holiday celebrating an ancient miracle, bt our history has taught us that we cannot depend on miracles alone.
 
Now is one of those points in Jewish history.
 
On Saturday, Iranian Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazi Shekarchi said,  “We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimeter. We want to destroy Zionism in the world.”
 
This morning, the United States and other world powers are convening with the Islamic Republic of Iran to negotiate a nuclear deal. Iran has already taught us—over and over again—that they cheat.

This was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, but most impressively by the Mossad’s daring raid in a warehouse in the missile of Tehran, when they came back with reams of papers showing how Iran cheated on the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the 2015 Nuclear deal.
 
At a conference in the Reichman Institute in Herzliya, Israel, former Israeli National Security Advisor Gen. Yaakov Amidror said, “Without a military threat and pressure on Iran, nothing will result from a deal.” 

He ominously added, “The world will not lift a finger. The Americans won’t carry out a single mission.” 

EMET does not wait for miracles. Every day, we are meeting with policymakers or their staff on Capitol Hill to explain how dangerous an Iranian nuclear bomb is, not only for Israel, but for the region and the world. We try to move the needle a little bit to have members empathize with the Jewish state, amd what Israel is up against.  

Please see what it is that EMET does every single day here.

John Hannah is a Senior Fellow at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.

Hannah served in senior foreign policy positions for both Democratic and Republican administrations, including as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s National Security Advisor from 2005-2009 and as Vice President Cheney’s Deputy National Security Advisor for the Middle East from 2001-2005. Previously, he also served as a senior advisor to Secretary of State Warren Christopher during the Bill Clinton administration, and as a senior member of Secretary of State James A. Baker’s Policy Planning Staff during the presidency of George H.W. Bush.

Outside of government, Hannah was Senior Counselor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a lawyer practicing in the area of international dispute resolution. Hannah received his BA from Duke University, his JD from the Yale Law School, and did graduate work in international relations at Stanford University.