The talks in Vienna offer the prospect of a better deal with binding, enduring restrictions on Iran’s production, stockpile, and use of enriched uranium, with unhindered international monitoring, as well as on its ballistic missile development and destabilizing regional behavior.
For decades, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has worked with governments across the Arab world to increase cooperation with Israel and the Jewish people. AJC was the first American Jewish organization to open an office in Israel, and is the only Jewish organization with an office in an Arab state, having opened AJC Abu Dhabi: The Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding, in 2021.
Both the State of Israel and post-colonial Africa were culminations of long-held messianic dreams, the first held by a two-thousand-year Jewish diaspora, the second by nations or tribes that chafed for centuries under colonial oppression in their own lands.