What Iran Seeks to Get from Cease-Fire Negotiations
A stalling tactic.
June 20, 2025
Good vs. evil, and an ally in constant danger.
The recent coverage of the Iran-Israel war, and the possibility that the U.S. might intervene to destroy Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, has raised the broader question of why the American alliance with Israel is so important—and even the question, sometimes raised in good faith as well as bad, of why the tiny Jewish state generates so much attention. Jonah Goldberg considers many good reasons Americans should care about Israel, among them:
A stalling tactic.
Good vs. evil, and an ally in constant danger.
Palestine rather than platitudes.
From the YIVO collections.
Aramaean migration and Babylonian scribes.
The recent coverage of the Iran-Israel war, and the possibility that the U.S. might intervene to destroy Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, has raised the broader question of why the American alliance with Israel is so important—and even the question, sometimes raised in good faith as well as bad, of why the tiny Jewish state generates so much attention. Jonah Goldberg considers many good reasons Americans should care about Israel, among them:
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