Don’t Bomb Iran

Does Dennis Ross, pro-Israel lobbyist and US special envoy on Iran, believe Iranian society is demonic?  That is what the organisation whose board he recently chaired is briefing the Israeli cabinet, as Robert Dreyfus at The Nation points out here 

Readers of The Nation may already have seen my thumbnail profile of Dennis Ross, Hillary Clinton’s special envoy for “the Gulf and Southwest Asia,” i.e., Iran

Here’s an addendum to that profile: until his recent appointment, Ross served as chairman of the board for theJewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI), an Israel-based organization that, according to its web site, “makes an annual presentation to the Israeli Cabinet as a whole on main developments in the Jewish world, offering its assessments and policy recommendations.”

The organization adds:

 

JPPPI’s work serves as the basis for assessments, alerts and strategic policy designs provided to Jewish decision makers, and to opinion leaders and publics at large. 

In the latest of those annual presentations, the JPPPI refers to “the international threat posed by nuclear weapons capacity in Iran (and other demonic societies).” Yes, you read that right: demonic.

The JPPPI report adds that Israel has been abandoned to face the threat from Iran alone:

 

The past year has aggravated the Israeli dilemma of how to act vis-à-vis Tehran, and there is a mounting sense that the international community would rather leave Israel to deal with the problem on its own.

Tags: demonic, Dennis Ross, Iran