The initial leaks from the draft agreement with Iran horrified me and led me to reflect on the 1938 Munich Agreement, which was ostensibly a peace accord but in practice served as the West's surrender agreement to Nazi Germany. Instead of stopping the Nazis, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave Adolf Hitler a license to continue Nazi expansion in exchange for a false peace.
Only one man stood against that surrender: Winston Churchill. Another year and a half would pass, along with the invasions of Poland, Norway and Denmark, before he would be chosen as prime minister of a British unity government and save the world at the last minute.
Once again, the West wants peace at any price, to the point that it is prepared to make sweeping concessions to a new oppressor and give a dangerous state a license to expand and trample its neighbors. Once again, the West is surrendering to a state that does not try to hide its extremist worldview.
Precisely after the courageous leader of the free world, US President Donald Trump, launched a second campaign against the nuclearizing ayatollah state and commanded the largest bombing campaign in history by the tremendous forces of the Israeli and US militaries, we expected his envoys to complete the regime's subjugation at the negotiating table. But it appears that the US is capitulating in the talks.
With mediation by countries close to the ayatollahs' regime, such as Pakistan and Qatar, it appears the Iranians are emerging from the campaign victorious. The nuclear process will continue, and Iran will receive many more billions than Barack Obama gave it. The US will be left with what it already had before the fighting: the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and a drop in fuel prices.
The winner of the deal
When the draft agreement was published, countries in the region quickly grasped its significance and began moving closer to the winner: Iran. Qatar and other oil states have already begun distancing themselves from Israel and returning to the embrace of a regime that has already proven it is not afraid to fire missiles at their capitals. Such a move would prove that Iran can stand up to the US and even receive billions that will save its economy, while further arming its military so it can continue to terrorize the entire region.
At the time of writing, it is not known whether an agreement will be signed. What is clear is that President Trump examined the agreement brought by the mediators and understood that it was Munich 2.0. If Trump succeeds in adding the removal of the nuclear program, as he has declared, it will be a Churchillian step, even if not a real victory.
It seems to me that Israel's citizens are united in their anxiety over the agreement and in their hope that the most beloved president here of all time will act according to his own legacy and succeed in blocking the Iranian danger, about which he has courageously warned from every platform.
We all know and understand President Trump's constraints, but our existential interest obligates us to confront, by ourselves or together with the US, the threat posed by Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
The Israeli interest requires strikes against Iran's proxies wherever they are and stopping the Iranian nuclear program. Even before elections. On this issue, there is not and must not be any political consideration, political debate, political interest or political limitation. This is the existential interest of us, our children and our grandchildren. In the agreement now on the table, world leadership will choose again: a world under Nazi control, yes or no.
