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Why Is It Up To Israel
To Stop Iran's Cheating?
I was excited to attend the Jewish Federation's
event on July 30 at Temple Beth El to hear a
discussion on the Iran nuclear deal. [See story
on page 20.] Unfortunately, it was a disap-
pointment.
The only speaker, David Makovsky, was
a former adviser to John Kerry. He said he
would present both sides of the issue, but he
really didn't get into the troubling terms of
the deal.
He did not discuss that the deal delivered
to Iran everything it wanted, while the U.S.
got promises not to cheat. Yet, this agreement
allows Iran to keep everything it gained by
cheating and rewards Iran further by return-
ing frozen assets, letting it acquire ICBMs and
advanced nuclear technologies while having
the U.S. help them protect their nuclear infra-
structure from attack (i.e., from Israel).
A significant point Mr. Makovsky made
was that the International Atomic Energy
Agency was not adequately staffed to monitor
Iran's nuclear program; he also mentioned
that there was no way to really deal with
incremental violations.
The final disappointment came when he
suggested that to assuage Israeli concerns, the
U.S. should provide Israel with special ord-
nance, delivery aircraft and infrastructure so
that it could bomb Iran's facilities if Iran were
caught cheating. In other words, he proposed
that Israel, not the U.S. nor U.N., punish Iran
if it cheated.
I am sure he said that because he knows
the U.S. and U.N. would do nothing. If that
were to happen, Israel would be condemned
for taking unilateral action — does anyone
see the preposterousness of this?
In my opinion, Federation did a disservice
to the community by billing this as a bal-
anced presentation. Furthermore, Federation
should have further supported its opposi-
tion to the deal by asking the audience to
call Congress to tell them to vote against the
agreement and override any veto. The Zionist
Organization of America did exactly that in
the flyer it passed out in front of the syna-
gogue.
Sylvia C. Fleshman
Farmington Hills
Column Was Insulting
To Candidate Trump
Some 250 words would not be enough to
refute the ridiculous and offensive Nightcap
article "Seriously?" (July 30, page 38) that
denigrates and insults Donald Trump.
It's not enough that the writer takes his
quotes completely out of context and dis-
torts Trump's accomplishments; he has to
emphasize his so-called expert opinion by
describing his presidential bid as a "stench"
with Trump suffering from "dementia" and
"ADHD," while being a "classless, 24K jerk',' a
"snob" and "noxious:'
When someone has to resort to insults to
make their point, then they demonstrate their
own inability to understand another's view-
point and their own disrespectful attitude.
Some people have minds that think inde-
pendently and clearly. As soon as someone
resorts to insults to make a point, they have
lost the argument.
Donald Kitain
West Bloomfield
Correction
• "Sharing Traditions" (July 23, page
20) should have stated that the Muslim-
Jewish fasting program was sponsored
by the Greater Detroit Muslim-Jewish
Solidarity Council (not the Michigan Muslim
Coordinating Council) along with the
Downtown Synagogue and the Michigan
Muslim-Jewish Forum.
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