Bret Baier:
What about this quote by David Axelrod, Charles, that I am a closest thing to a Jew that has ever
sat in this office?
Krauthammer:
Well, I’m not sure I even understand what that
means. But perhaps the judgment of Israelis, who 6 million of them are Jews,
have a pretty good idea what a Jew is and more importantly have a pretty good
ideal of what a friend is – I think the approval rating for Obama is about 15
percent among Isarelis. The administration pretends this is about Netanyahu and
Likud and the hawks and extremists. And 15 percent of Israelis have a favorable
view of Obama. The overwhelming majority of Israelis know that this president
has probably been the least favorable to Israel of any in Israel’s history and
at a moment where Israel’s existence is actually in question.
For Obama, this is a matter of personal hurt. I
mean, who cares what he feels? The issue is will Iran go nuclear? We know
Iran’s objective is the eradication of Israel – something it repeats over and
over again. They will acquire the means to do so. The issue here is that after
40 years of non-proliferation based on the principle that nobody enriches
uranium, we are now going to be signing a deal proudly with Iran, which is a
rogue state and as Steve [Hayes] indicated, broken every promise it has made –
a rogue state, which is now going to be able to enrich legally and
legitimately. That’s the end of the non-proliferation regime in the world.
We’re now going to enter a period of hyper-proliferation starting now.
Bret Baier:
I have two soundbites here,
but one is President Obama talking and addressing Israel directly. I want to play
that one. To the Israeli people:
Clip with president Obama:
“To the Israeli people. I
understand your concerns and I understand your fears, but what is the worst
scenario is the path that we are currently on in which there is no nuclear
resolution and ultimately we have no way to verify whether Iran has a weapon or
not. Sanctions won’t do it, a military solution is temporary, the deal we are negotiating
potentially takes a nuclear weapon off the table for twenty years”
Bret Baier:
“Potentially takes it off
the table for 20 years”
Krauthammer:
Look. That is ridiculous. Assuming there is no cheating we
will legitimize a bomb in lot shorter time than that. But the assumption of no
cheating is so naïve is to be incomprehensible .We have already heard of Iran
cheating on the enrichment and increasing at 20 percent when it is supposed to
freeze. On export of oil it has exceeded its caps every month for the last 18
months. All of this has been happening with sanctions and under restrictions.
Imagine how Iran is going to act after sanctions are lifted, after the
agreement is signed, when it has zero incentive to refrain from cheating. We
know it will, and even if it cheats and we found out about it I guarantee you
that this idea that we are gonna have snapback sanctions by the UN that will absolutely never happen.
I must say I was utterly surprised when I found out that Ha’aretz
posted the same clip two days later
