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Gary C. Gambill

The first step towards making America’s international commitments “once again mean something” is to desist from making international commitments that mean nothing.
Outside of Iran’s patronage networks, even the most radical and violent Arab Islamist groups—notably Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS)—have largely ignored Israel in favor of other fish to fry.
All of these zingers are rooted in the same straw-man argument. Since the JCPOA has a really tight inspections regime, they say, past evidence of cheating and duplicity by the Iranians is all the more reason to keep the deal.
Outside of Israel’s immediate conflict zones in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, even Islamists don’t focus much attention on the Jewish state.