Faced with the threat of a country that has long pledged to wipe Israel off the face of the map gaining access to the weapon that would enable it to carry out its stated ambition, one might understand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reluctance over the United States’ potential re-entry into the nuclear deal with Iran. But in the eyes of Jackson Diehl, the Washington Post‘s deputy editorial page editor, Netanyahu’s attempts at preventing a devastating war erupting in the Middle East constitute a “militant stand” against one of President-elect Joe Biden’s core policy pledges. In an opinion piece published December 6 entitled,