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Israel Looks Ahead after Iran Deal
(Wall Street Journal) Charles Levinson - Israeli leaders are looking ahead to ensure that the next rounds of diplomacy with Iran yield the best possible result for their country. "Israel has to make its case very clearly looking forward to that next set of understandings, six months from now," said Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN who now heads the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Israel's best ally in the fight to undermine the nuclear deal may be Iran itself. "We're going to see Iran do what it's always done in the past: fudge its commitments and attempt to violate the deal," Gold said. "And there will be an understanding that Israel was not crying wolf and had serious concerns that should have been more seriously considered by Western powers." Yoel Guzansky, head of Iranian policy on Israel's National Security Council from 2005-2010, added: "In many ways, this deal actually makes the Israeli strike more close, because, now, if they are caught cheating, you have a legitimacy to do other things that you didn't have before."