{"id":38302,"date":"2021-11-03T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38302"},"modified":"2021-11-03T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:17:05","slug":"the-arms-sales-and-apartheid-accords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/03\/the-arms-sales-and-apartheid-accords\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arms Sales and Apartheid Accords"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal <\/em>ran<\/a> a propaganda hit piece against critics of normalization agreements with Israel that was ridiculous even by their extremely low standards:<\/p>\n

The question is why the regime is getting an intellectual assist from advocacy groups on the American left.<\/i><\/p>\n

The hit piece is written by Bryan Leib, executive director of \u201cIranian Americans for Liberty.\u201d This is an organization supported by monarchists and others in the diaspora bent on regime change, and they routinely smear<\/a> advocates of diplomatic engagement in their pursuit of that destructive goal. Bryan Metzger reported<\/a> on them earlier this year:<\/p>\n

In addition to NIAC, Iranian Americans for Liberty has also attacked other Iranian Americans who publicly support the JCPOA and diplomacy with Iran \u2013 including journalist Negar Mortazavi and State Department official Ariane Tabatabai \u2013 by accusing them, again without evidence, of being apologists for the regime. <\/i><\/p>\n

In typical fashion, Leib\u2019s targets in the latest hit piece are Iranian Americans that rightly object to these agreements because of their detrimental and potentially destabilizing effects. The normalization agreements between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco should be criticized because they are effectively endorsements of unjust policies of occupation in exchange for favors from the U.S. given to abusive authoritarian governments. The Israeli government gets a few Arab governments to ignore their oppressive treatment of the Palestinian people and establish closer ties, and in return those governments get rewarded with more advanced US weapons and diplomatic support for their own outrageous policies. In the case of Morocco, Trump recognized their illegitimate claim on Western Sahara in one of the more gross transactional deals that he made as president. To his discredit, Biden has not reversed that recognition. <\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at Eunomia<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Larison is a weekly columnist for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia<\/a>. He is former senior editor at<\/i> The American Conservative. He has been published in the<\/i> New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and<\/i> Culture11, and was a columnist for<\/i> The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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