Wednesday 16 October 2013

The Duplicity of the British Methodist Church.

The Duplicity of the British Methodist Church   by Barry Shaw.

The British Methodist Church, with the help of the infamous BDS Movement, is distributing a questionnaire calling for the consumer boycott of Israel. This is a significant step against Israel. In April 2010, they declared a partial boycott of “settlement” products. Now they are hitting on the whole of Israel.
Robin Shepherd pointed out in “The banality of Methodist evil,” (Jerusalem Post April 7, 2010), that an institution professing the pursuit of love, truth, and justice is now pursuing hate, lies, and hypocrisy against Israel.

They are doing it at precisely the time when peace talks are being conducted between and the Palestinian leadership. Strange timing, don’t you think?  Maybe, in this context, they are doing it as a friendly gesture to push Israel into ending what they perceive as the injustice of the Palestinians?   I don’t think so.  They deny it’s a campaign against Israel, but it is.

If “occupation” is the issue, why hasn’t the Methodist Church proposed boycotts against other countries practicing occupation?  If its “occupation” and “oppression” they object to, why haven’t they come out against Turkey, who displaced 400,000 Cypriots in a violent invasion and forty year old occupation of Northern Cyprus? China’s occupation of Tibet? Or Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara? Not a peep over these places. No, it’s only Israel they beat up on by making the Palestinians their poster child.

Methodists have no thought as to why Israel needs to take the security steps it does to protect its people as its first and primary consideration. They make no mention of decades of Palestinian terrorism, including suicide bombings, against innocent Israeli civilians. They fail to take into consideration the numerous peace gestures and painful concessions of successive Israeli governments, all totally rejected by the Palestinians. In fact, the Israeli position is conspicuous by its absence in all Methodist deliberations. In short, it lacks even-handedness, fairness,  or in their language, it is devoid of love, truth, and balanced justice.

What is more puzzling is that the Methodist branch of the Christian religion is siding with an entity that hates and abuses Christians, and is acting against a the only place in the Middle East that protects its Christian population, and allows them unfettered freedom of religion. Surely they know that Bethlehem, perhaps the most holy place in Christendom, a place that had a majority Christian population of over eight percent when under Israeli guardianship, is now under twenty percent, and falling, under the occupation of the Palestinian Authority.  Christians have fled the oppressive Palestinian regime, both in the West Bank and in particular Gaza, to the extent that they number less than 1.7% of the population. Methodists! If you are a Palestinian Christian you move to Israel. Just ask the Christian population of east Jerusalem if they prefer to be Israeli or Palestinian.

I ask Methodist readers of this article one question. Who do you really prefer to have as guardians of the Christian holy places in Jerusalem?  Israel? Or Hamas? Put your hand on your heart and give yourself the honest answer. 

But why is the Methodist Church going out of its way to sanction and boycott Israel while ignoring massive crimes against humanity, many of which slaughter fellow Christians? Why, in their eyes, is the Jewish State of Israel more evil than all others?  Quite simply, it is because the Methodist Church is founded on replacement theology. Jews are the chicken bone in their throat that has to be spat out and thrown away. For them, the Christian ideology of anti-Judaism has been replaced with a more modern cloak of anti-Zionism. In its deep malevolent heart it is one and the same thing. They would side with the devil, as they have in the past, to remove this perceived blot on the face of Christianity. As such, they share an agenda with Islamists such as Palestinian Hamas (who they support) whose Charter still carries the call to kill Jews. They failed in their attempts to have Jews recognize Jesus as their savior so they adopt ways, such as this questionnaire, of turning Jews into an unwanted pariah.

The Methodist Church has been waging this war against Israel since before 2007. What is so distasteful about the British faction is that their hierarchy has been hijacked by a radical minority that constantly places anti-Israel resolutions on its agenda that are not supported by rank and file priests. There is a battle going on in the British church between those who bravely support Israel, and their leaders who oppose Israel. Local pastors who speak up for Israel put themselves at risk. If they refuse to toe the official line they could find themselves out of a job. Dismissal by the hierarchy would also mean they would be made homeless as they live in property owned by the church. Such is the threat they endure in their love and support for Israel. 

One outspoken Methodist opponent of his leadership is David Hallam who, in 2011, said, "What I object to is money, which I am putting on the collection plate on a Sunday, being used to fund a political campaign against the Jewish state. This is both discriminatory and a misuse of a charity's funds. I object to the one-sided and bigoted approach.”

On 12 October 2011, he reported on anti-Semitic views expressed by people attending a Methodist at the Rivercourt Methodist Church in West London earlier that month.

A year ago I met in Israel a group of visiting lay leaders of Britain's Methodist Church. They complained to me that their church has been hijacked (their term) by people whose beliefs they do not share. Hesitantly, I asked them if they thought that anti-Antisemitism was not at the core, rather than genuine concern for Palestinian Arabs. Unanimously they chorused, "But, of course it is!"

The official Methodist position has always been completely one-sided and anti-Israel. While constantly questioning Israeli policies, including its security concerns, it makes no profound statements about Palestinian anti-Semitic ideologies and statements used to promote violence and terror against innocent Israelis, and to deny its right to exist. On the contrary, it actively supports this agenda based on their theological denial of land for Jews while actively supporting land for Arabs. It constantly calls “disputed territories” Palestinian land. Their actions and theology firmly indicate that they consider all of Israel as Palestinian land in line with the agenda of the BDS Movement.

The biased leaders of the Methodist Church, in their linking to the BDS Movement, know full well that they are advocating the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel. They are aware of the words of Norman Finkelstein who turned away from the basic dishonesty of the BDS Movement calling them a “No Israel” cult.

Like their BDS partners, the British Methodist Church is dishonest. Instead of coming out publicly and saying that Israel shouldn't exist, as they do in closed door cabals, they are now trying to wrap themselves with a cloak of public opinion support for their consumer questionnaire.

They think they are being clever by implementing such tactics, but they are not talking  about rights, they are talking about destroying Israel. This kind of duplicity of saying they are agnostic about Israel is a lie. They do it because they know they do not have a broad public if they were to come out openly and say, according to their religious beliefs, that Israel has no right to exist.

Israel demands to hear what they have to say about Israel’s legitimacy, and Israel’s rights. It is not an accidental omission that the BDS Movement, and now the Methodist Church, choke on mention of Israel’s rights.

The “No Israel” cult of BDS has fooled the Methodist Church into supporting them, but this is easily done because they share the same “No Israel” ideology.

It is shocking to see how far the Methodist Church has strayed since its founding days under John and Charles Wesley, who were both passionate spiritual advocates of the Jewish return to the Holy Land. Charles Wesley’s hymns were full of biblical calls for the ingathering of the Jewish people to Israel.

“O that the chosen band might now their brethren bring
And gathered out of every land present to Sion’s King.

Of all the ancient race not one be left behind
But each impelled by secret grace his way to Canaan find!

We know it must be done for God hath spoke the word
All Israel shall their Saviour own to their first state restored.

Rebuilt by His command Jerusalem shall rise
Her temple on Moriah stand again, and touch the skies.”

How far they have strayed can be seen in their adoption of the Palestinian Kairos Document that denies Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria by replacing them with the doctrine of Palestinian land. They have not only rejected biblical evidence, their own founding principles and theology, and international resolutions confirming Israel’s rights under international law, they have drifted into the arms, and are united with, those who relentlessly seek the destruction of Israel.

They have abandoned the origins of their faith in favor of a replacement theology the dogma of which ignores the teachings of the Old Testament and of their founding fathers.

The Methodist Church has failed to work for mutual peace and reconciliation in the Middle East. On the contrary, it has always taken a strongly biased position against Israel with a refusal to understand, consider, or sympathize with their genuine concerns born out of violence and terror perpetrated against its people.  

The release of the Methodist Church questionnaire says less about Israel and much more about their fatal drift into the arms of the BDS Movement and, ultimately, into the radical claws of a Palestinian movement bent on eliminating Israel.

Barry Shaw is the Special Consultant on Delegitimization Issues to The Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic College.   He is also the author of ‘Israel Reclaiming the Narrative.” www.israelnarrative.com






Sunday 13 October 2013

The Evil Duplicity of the British Methodist Church.

The Evil Duplicity of the British Methodist Church   by Barry Shaw.

The British Methodist Church, with the help of the infamous BDS Movement, is distributing a questionnaire calling for the consumer boycott of Israel. This is a significant step against Israel. In April 2010, they declared a partial boycott of “settlement” products. Now they are hitting on the whole of Israel.

Robin Shepherd pointed out in “The banality of Methodist evil,” (Jerusalem Post April 7, 2010), that an institution professing the pursuit of love, truth, and justice is now pursuing hate, lies, and hypocrisy against Israel.

They are doing it at precisely the time when peace talks are being conducted between and the Palestinian leadership. Strange timing, don’t you think?  Maybe, in this context, they are doing it as a friendly gesture to push Israel into ending what they perceive as the injustice of the Palestinians?   I don’t think so.  They deny it’s a campaign against Israel, but it is.

If “occupation” is the issue, why hasn't the Methodist Church proposed boycotts against other countries practicing occupation?  If its “occupation” and “oppression” they object to, why haven’t they come out against Turkey, who displaced 400,000 Cypriots in a violent invasion and forty year old occupation of Northern Cyprus? China’s occupation of Tibet? Or Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara? Not a peep over these places. No, it’s only Israel they beat up on by making the Palestinians their poster child.
Methodists have no thought as to why Israel needs to take the security steps it does to protect its people as its first and primary consideration. They make no mention of decades of Palestinian terrorism, including suicide bombings, against innocent Israeli civilians. They fail to take into consideration the numerous peace gestures and painful concessions of successive Israeli governments, all totally rejected by the Palestinians. In fact, the Israeli position is conspicuous by its absence in all Methodist deliberations. In short, it lacks even-handedness, fairness,  or in their language, it is devoid of love, truth, and balanced justice
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What is more puzzling is that the Methodist branch of the Christian religion is siding with an entity that hates and abuses Christians, and is acting against a the only place in the Middle East that protects its Christian population, and allows them unfettered freedom of religion. Surely they know that Bethlehem, perhaps the most holy place in Christendom, a place that had a majority Christian population of over eight percent when under Israeli guardianship, is now under twenty percent, and falling, under the occupation of the Palestinian Authority.  Christians have fled the oppressive Palestinian regime, both in the West Bank and in particular Gaza, to the extent that they number less than 1.7% of the population. Methodists! If you are a Palestinian Christian you move to Israel. Just ask the Christian population of east Jerusalem if they prefer to be Israeli or Palestinian.

I ask Methodist readers of this article one question. Who do you really prefer to have as guardians of the Christian holy places in Jerusalem?  Israel? Or Hamas? Put your hand on your heart and give yourself the honest answer. I rest my case.

But why is the Methodist Church going out of its way to sanction and boycott Israel while ignoring massive crimes against humanity, many of which slaughter fellow Christians? Why, in their eyes, is the Jewish State of Israel more evil than all others?  Quite simply, it is because the Methodist Church is founded on replacement theology. Jews are the chicken bone in their throat that has to be spat out and thrown away. For them, the Christian ideology of anti-Judaism has been replaced with a more modern cloak of anti-Zionism. In its deep malevolent heart it is one and the same thing. They would side with the devil, as they have in the past, to remove this perceived blot on the face of Christianity. As such, they share an agenda with Islamists such as Palestinian Hamas (who they support) whose Charter still carries the call to kill Jews. They failed in their attempts to have Jews recognize Jesus as their savior so they adopt ways, such as this questionnaire,  of turning Jews into an unwanted pariah.

The Methodist Church has been waging this war against Israel since before 2007. What is so distasteful about the British faction is that their hierarchy has been hijacked by a radical minority that constantly places anti-Israel resolutions on its agenda that are not supported by rank and file priests. There is a battle going on in the British church between those who bravely support Israel, and their leaders who oppose Israel. Local pastors who speak up for Israel put themselves at risk. If they refuse to toe the official line they could find themselves out of a job. Dismissal by the hierarchy would also mean they would be made homeless as they live in property owned by the church. Such is the threat they endure in their love and support for Israel. 
One outspoken Methodist opponent of his leadership is David Hallam who, in 2011, said, "What I object to is money, which I am putting on the collection plate on a Sunday, being used to fund a political campaign against the Jewish state. This is both discriminatory and a misuse of a charity's funds. I object to the one-sided and bigoted approach.”

On 12 October 2011, he reported on anti-Semitic views expressed by people attending a Methodist at the Rivercourt Methodist Church in West London earlier that month.

The official Methodist position has always been completely one-sided and anti-Israel. While constantly questioning Israeli policies, including its security concerns, it makes no profound statements about Palestinian anti-Semitic ideologies and statements used to promote violence and terror against innocent Israelis, and to deny its right to exist. On the contrary, it actively supports this agenda based on their theological denial of land for Jews while actively supporting land for Arabs. It constantly calls “disputed territories” Palestinian land. Their actions and theology firmly indicate that they consider all of Israel as Palestinian land in line with the agenda of the BDS Movement.

The biased leaders of the Methodist Church, in their linking to the BDS Movement, know full well that they are advocating the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel. They are aware of the words of Norman Finkelstein who turned away from the basic dishonesty of the BDS Movement calling them a “No Israel” cult.

Like their BDS partners, the British Methodist Church is dishonest. Instead of coming out publicly and saying that Israel shouldn’t exist, as they do in closed door cabals, they are now trying to wrap themselves with a cloak of public opinion support for their consumer questionnaire.

They think they are being clever by implementing such tactics, but they are not talking  about rights, they are talking about destroying Israel. This kind of duplicity of saying they are agnostic about Israel is a lie. They do it because they know they do not have a broad public if they were to come out openly and say, according to their religious beliefs, that Israel has no right to exist.
Israel demands to hear what they have to say about Israel’s legitimacy, and Israel’s rights. It is not an accidental omission that the BDS Movement, and now the Methodist Church, choke on mention of Israel’s rights.
The “No Israel” cult of BDS has fooled the Methodist Church into supporting them, but this is easily done because they share the same “No Israel” ideology.

It is shocking to see how far the Methodist Church has strayed since its founding days under John and Charles Wesley, who were both passionate spiritual advocates of the Jewish return to the Holy Land. Charles Wesley’s hymns were full of biblical calls for the ingathering of the Jewish people to Israel.

“O that the chosen band might now their brethren bring
And gathered out of every land present to Sion’s King.

Of all the ancient race not one be left behind
But each impelled by secret grace his way to Canaan find!

We know it must be done for God hath spoke the word
All Israel shall their Saviour own to their first state restored.

Rebuilt by His command Jerusalem shall rise
Her temple on Moriah stand again, and touch the skies.”

How far they have strayed can be seen in their adoption of the Palestinian Kairos Document that denies Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria by replacing them with the doctrine of Palestinian land. They have not only rejected biblical evidence, their own founding principles and theology, and international resolutions confirming Israel’s rights under international law, they have drifted into the arms, and are united with, those who relentlessly seek the destruction of Israel.

The Methodist Church has failed to work for mutual peace and reconciliation in the Middle East. On the contrary, it has always taken a strongly biased position against Israel. 

The release of the Methodist Church questionnaire says less about Israel and much more about their fatal drift into the arms of the BDS Movement and, ultimately, into the radical claws of a Palestinian movement bent on eliminating Israel.

Barry Shaw is the Special Consultant on Delegitimization Issues to The Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic College.   He is also the author of  "Israel Reclaiming the Narrative.” www.israelnarrative.com






Friday 11 October 2013

The current peace talks are a train wreck about to happen.


    THE CURRENT PEACE TALKS ARE A TRAIN WRECK WAITING TO HAPPEN.

Listen to strong advocacy for Israel from Barry Shaw.
Speaking on an online Christian radio show, Barry talks about the current peace talks that he calls "a train wreck about to happen" and explains why. He also covers other controversial issues. 
The sound quality is poor, but stick with it. You will hear some important and affirmative revelations.

https://soundcloud.com/pastor-jerry/peace-talks-with-palestinians

Monday 7 October 2013

Don't be fooled by Taqiyah.

Original Thinking from Barry Shaw.

Taqiyah is the Islamic ruse that permits lying and deceit for short or long term gain.
Quoted in the Ahmad ibn Nagib al-Misri handbook is an explanation of the use and benefits of taqiyah. It concludes that “when it is possible to achieve an aim by lying, but not telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible.”

Taqiyah is old hat in the Islamic world. It is as old as Mohammed. He signed a peace agreement with the Jews of Medina after he had been unable to defeat them in battle. This truce lasted only as long as he was able to muster sufficient force to inflict defeat on them. He conquered Medina and publicly executed all the Jewish men, eight hundred in number.

So much for Islamic signed contracts and commitments.

We recently saw taqiyah used by Hassan Rouhani, the new Iranian leader, during his visit to the United Nations and his media charm offensive in which he apparently fooled naïve Western ears. One example was highlighted by Israel’s Prime Minister at the annual Bar Ilan Conference when he referred to Rouhani’s comments that Zionists should take advantage of Nazi crimes to inflict suffering on the Palestinians. This insidiously implied link between Nazi crimes and Israeli actions was designed to implant a false narrative into naïve listeners. We, who are involved with Israeli advocacy, experience this type of reference all the time. 
Using historic facts Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted the deeds of Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who met Hitler on November 28, 1941, as an example of Palestinian Arab complicity with Nazi crimes against the Jews. Al-Husseini visited the death camps of Auschwitz, Majdenek, Treblinka, and Mauthausen, in his role as representing Palestinian Pan-Arabism.

One of Adolph Eichmann’s deputies, Dieter Wisliceny, at the Nuremburg trials, stated that al-Husseini had encouraged the extermination of European Jews and that he had had elaborate meeting with Eichmann on the subject during which Eichmann had given him a detailed look at the current state of the “Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe.”

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, in his memoirs, recorded that al-Husseini had been impressed when Heinrich Himmler told him that, by the summer of 1943, over three million Jews had been exterminated. He went on to recall that al-Husseini had publicly declared that Muslims should follow the example Germans set for a "definitive solution to the Jewish problem."

The Mufti complained to Hitler that he was not expending sufficient resources to stop the Jews, especially Jewish children, from freeing from the Balkans. He wanted to see them all annihilated. Here we had a Jerusalem-based Palestinian religious figure working feverishly to destroy European Jewry.

Contrary to what is heard at the United Nations, in the American media, on many Western campuses, and even from Mahmoud Abbas himself, the Zionists did not use the Nazis as a tool. It was the Palestinian Mufti and the Arabs who helped and encouraged Hitler to destroy the Jews.

It is worth noting that the Mufti is still a revered figure in Palestinian society. Despite all the taqiyah to the contrary, this is the real core of the Palestinian narrative. It is not settlements, or occupation. It is the ninety year old ambition to kill Jews and reject the notion of a Jewish state.

Examining Palestinian use of taqiyah, we see it applied by Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn at the signing of the Oslo Accords which was witnessed by President Clinton and the European Quartet. Arafat went on to say, during a visit to Johannesburg, that “I am not considering it more than the agreement signed between Mohammed and Quraish (the Jews of Medina). Mohammed accepted it, and we are accepting it now.” (Emphasis on the word “now.”)

In a Palestinian TV interview on July 22, 2009, Muhammed Dahlan, admitted that Arafat deceived the world when he condemned terror.

“I lived with Arafat for years. Arafat would condemn terror by day while, at night, he would do the ‘honorable thing.’ I don’t want to say more about this.”

In more recent times we continue to see Palestinian leaders practicing taqiyah. One of the most notable was when, in an Israeli television interview, Mahmoud Abbas said that he is willing to give up his right to return to Tsfat in Israel, where his ancestors originated. When met with a storm of criticism in Ramallah at this apparent renouncement of the much vaunted Palestinian “right of return”, one of Abbas’s spokesmen said his statement was “just for Israeli consumption.”

Can anyone trust the words and promises of Palestinian leaders? Not really.  What they tell CNN and BBC in English is not what they say to their own people in Arabic.  What they tell their own people is that all of Israel is Palestine and they have not given up on the plan to liberate all of Palestine.

This form of taqiyah is truly at the heart of the Palestinians and the Islamic world. How is peace possible when this is the basis of Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic belief?



Barry Shaw is the author of ‘Israel Reclaiming the Narrative.’ www.israelnarrative.com  He is also the Special Consultant on Delegitimization Issues to The Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic College.

Tuesday 1 October 2013

The Extinction of Christendom in our lifetime.

The Extinction of Christendom in our lifetime.

Original Thinking from Barry Shaw.

We are witnessing the extinction of Christendom in the Middle East and most of Africa in our lifetime at the hands of Islamists.

One of the main perpetrators of this has been the total failure of Christian leaders in the region to face up to and speak the truth.

Instead of protecting their co-religionists they have perversely sided with their enemy, and helped them in their dirty work, with their lies and deceptions against the Jewish state of Israel.

I leave you to name and shame those responsible for acting in the demonization and delegitimization of Israel, and therefore opening the door to the murderous assaults against their own people by their false and devious allies.

Because these Christian leaders echoed the anti-Israel indoctrination, they failed to notice that their fellow Christians were being abused, threatened, assaulted, murdered, and driven out of the very Islamic societies they were naively supporting.

Now that this violence has risen to horrendous cases of mass murder and ethnic cleansing against their voices are still silent, except to speak out against the Jewish nation.

When will they wake up to the truth that we share the same background and values and should stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel against a common enemy, rather than gleefully share their campaign of anti-Jewish hatred?

As it is written;
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you!”

We are witnessing this Divine warning today in our time.

Barry Shaw is the Special Consultant on Delegitimization Issues to the Strategic Dialogue Center of Netanya Academic College.
He is also the author of the book ‘Israel Reclaiming the Narrative.’ www.israelnarrative.com  Also available on Amazon in Kindle format.



Revealing the real face of Rouhani.

Original Thinking from Barry Shaw.

So, the UN General Assembly warmly applauded the smiling face of Hassan Rouhani. The American liberal media fell over themselves.  They projected him as a charismatic newcomer as they disseminated the Iranian leader’s charm offensive, but he is far from being that false public persona.
According to Israeli intelligence experts and analysts this was, indeed, offensive.

Let’s look at this guy’s bio;

The young Rouhani was engaged in Islamic revolutionary efforts even before Ayatollah Khomeni descended on Tehran from exile in Paris.
One of his first tasks was to organize the Iranian army and its military bases. During the Iran-Iraq War he was a leading member of the Supreme Defense Council. He was elevated to the High council for Supporting War, and later headed its Executive Council. This promotion was a result of his efficient work as the Deputy Commander of the war with Iraq and as the Commander of the Khatam-al-Anbiya Operation Center.
He became Commander of the Iran Air Defense Force and was appointed as Deputy to Iran’s Chiefs of Staff between 1988-89.
This man is far from being a spiritual politician.

In 1986, Rouhani was one of the three top Iranians that met with Robert McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser, during the infamous Iran-Contra affair.
As a member of the Supreme Defense Council he was certainly in the loop in 1983 when the operation was planned and the decision was given for Hezbollah to blow up the US army barracks in Beirut that killed 241 American servicemen.
At the time of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, Rouhani, as First Secretary of the Supreme National Security Adviser and also the national security adviser to Presidents Hashemi and Khatami, must have had his finger on the button and is implicated in the Argentinian investigation that Iran has been swerving for twenty years.

During the 1999 student protests that left many Iranians dead, tortured, and oppressed, Rouhani, as Secretary to the SNSC, said, “At dusk yesterday we received a decisive revolutionary order to crush mercilessly and monumentally any move of these opportunist elements wherever it may occur. From today our people will witness how our law enforcement shall deal with these riotous elements if they simply show their faces..”

In 2000, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy described Rouhani as “power hungry.”

So much for the charming peacemaker and according to his UN General Assembly speech, for being the Iranian champion of human rights.

To those who think that Rouhani is a fresh new face in the nuclear issue, permit me to dissolution you.  Hassan Rouhani has been involved in the Iranian nuclear issue for sixteen years. He took charge of Iran’s nuclear case on October 6, 2003. He has subsequently been part of negotiations with European states starting in Saadabad  in Tehran, and later in Brussels, Geneva, and Paris.

During that time Iran has succeeded in completing its nuclear fuel cycle and, under Rouhani’s leadership, the Iranian nuclear team has taken numerous groundbreaking steps in its pursuit of weapon capability.

Barry Shaw is the Special Consultant on Delegitimization Issues to The Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic College.
He is the author of ‘Israel Reclaiming the Narrative.’ www.israelnarrative.com