In President Obama’s all-out press to push through his risky and likely disastrous deal with Iran, his acolytes are desperately trying to round up the public support of national “elites” to convince the unwashed masses who, with good common sense, generally oppose the deal. The potential loopholes in these constraints contribute to our unease. It puts in place a more stringent and intrusive verification regime that gives the worldwide Atomic Energy Agency the tools necessary to monitor compliance and detect covert nuclear activity for decades to come.
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For years, they conduct a rogue nuclear weapons program in defiance of multiple Security Council declarations of its illegality backed by sanctions and embargoes. Rejecting this deal in the hope of a better one is risky and reckless.
Principal deputy press secretary Eric Schultz, another Schumer alumnus, has played an aggressive role defending the Iran deal, which involves rebutting his former boss in notes to reporters and posts on Twitter. Most importantly, it debunks the notion that Iran is moderating and won’t take advantage of the pact to undermine the interests of the U.S. and its allies. “This agreement is, in my opinion, the most effective, realistic way to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon anytime in the next 15 years”.
If I were an Israeli grocer, just following this deal on the radio, I’d hate it for enshrining Iran’s right to enrich uranium, since Iran regularly cheated its way to expanding that capability, even though it had signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
While our survey technique explicitly included JNRs, other recent surveys on the views of American Jews – such as a July poll commissioned by the Israel Project, which opposes the nuclear deal – rely exclusively on the religion question to qualify respondents and fail to ask the follow-up: “Aside from religion, do you consider yourself Jewish or partially Jewish?”
Indeed, there are policies and actions relating to Iran’s aggression that Republicans, Democrats and the White House might actually agree upon. Until the administration acts to address these concerns, and whether or not it is approved by Congress, we urge a new path forward that convinces Iran to eschew its agenda of bigotry and violence. The one-time Shin Bet director claimed that Israel should have stood beside the United States all along to ensure that any agreement reached would be the best one possible. But since a Jewish-identified organization is openly leading the campaign against the deal, the argument is that the president’s defense of his position could unfortunately be misinterpreted as anti-Semitic.
Unfortunately, political bickering and misinformation from critics has muddled the debate over the Iran nuclear deal.
Iran would go from maybe a few months from a bomb to a year away. And a Special Operations forces attack, as I have learned better than most, is chancy, especially given the dispersed Iranian facilities. Bolling found this unconvincing, offering that those senators are simply voting their “Democratic ideology” instead of their Jewish conscience.
But he has said he would not lobby his colleagues, and other Democrats have announced support for the Iran agreement this week. “Finally, Iran must understand that should it violate the terms of the agreement all options remain on the table”. “We think that this deal will endanger Israel’s security”, Dermer told CNN.
Also, the time it would take Iran to go nuclear would be significantly less without this agreement than it would with this negotiated agreement. Iran could also claim to be a victim of American perfidy and try to convince other nations to break with U.S. leadership and with the entire worldwide sanctions regime.
We stress that ADL can not support the JCPOA in its current form.
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This tragicomedy is now in the hands of Congress or, more accurately, of congressional Democrats.
