The Iran deal is a turning point in US foreign policy, and its approval by Congress will represent a sea change in American politics: it will mark nothing less than a day of liberation which future generations might dub "VI Day" – victory over Israel day.

The post-9/11 era saw the already formidable power of Israel's lobby in the US rise to make it the decisive factor in any foreign policy debate: a heavyweight became a crushing weight, one that leveled any and all opposition to US intervention abroad under the steel toe of the "war on terrorism." The Lobby's role in ginning up the invasion and conquest of Iraq is well-documented in Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer's The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, and there is no need to replicate their detective work here. I would merely add that, even before the Iraq invasion ,then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon issued fresh marching orders to the US military, specifying Iran, Libya, and Syria as the next victims on Tel Aviv's list. As Ha'aretz reported in 2003, before the invasion of Iraq was even launched: