AIPAC is certainly correct that U.S. sanctions can be maintained as a matter of law should Congress reject the JCPOA.  But, it is there that AIPAC’s analysis parts company with several important realities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed the Likud Party’s Danny Danon, currently the Minister of Science, to the position of United Nations envoy. Danon, a man who Netanyahu fired only last year because of his “loose cannon” actions, seems an odd choice for a diplomatic position of any kind.

“It is the prerogative of Netanyahu and sympathetic U.S. Jewish groups to lobby against the Iran deal – but they must take responsibility for their actions,” writes Lara Friedman. “Trying to deflect attention away from these actions by raising scurrilous charges of anti-Semitism is outrageous and cheapens genuine concerns about resurgent anti-Semitism.”

A two-month hunger strike by a Palestinian detainee now in a coma may test a controversial new Israeli law on force-feeding, with Israeli doctors vowing to refuse to carry it out.

“I used to be one of those people who took issue with the label of apartheid as applied to Israel,” writes Bradley Burston. “Not anymore.”

“A new bill that paves the way for putting Israeli citizens in administrative detention could one day affect activists, human rights workers, and Palestinian citizens of Israel,” writes Sawsan Khalifa.

Night raids, a common tactic in the occupied West Bank, are used to intimidate the Palestinian community, residents say.

“If your basic assumption – one backed by years of evidence – is that the United Nations is stacked against you, then does it really matter who the ambassador is?” asks Herb Keinon.

Likud MK Avi Dichter says solution to uptick in vehicular attacks on Israelis is to keep Palestinian cars away from settlements.