Jeffrey Goldberg, Columnist

For Help on Iran, Netanyahu Must Look to West Bank

Why areÂ Benjamin Netanyahu'sÂ complaints being ignored? Two reasons.

November 7, 2013 at 10:12 PM UTC

Jeffrey Goldberg is a columnist for Bloomberg View writing about the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy and national affairs. He is a national correspondent for the Atlantic, the author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror" and a winner of the National Magazine Award for reporting. He has also covered the Middle East as a staff writer for the New Yorker. Goldberg began his career at the Washington Post. He later wrote a column for the Jerusalem Post, covered the Mafia for New York magazine, and wrote for several years for the New York Times Magazine. He has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a fellow of the Jerusalem Foundation. He was born in New York, and now lives in Washington with his wife and three children.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is very upset with the P5+1 countries -- the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany -- for agreeing, in principle, to the idea that Iran could be granted temporary sanctions relief in exchange for a temporary halt to its nuclear program.

These provisional concessions, in exchange for a provisional freeze, would theoretically buy time for negotiators to work out a permanent deal. Such a deal would -- if the West negotiates wisely -- prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. And that would make Israel and the Arab states very happy.