Posted on 07/26/2015 1:42:26 PM PDT by Nachum
Secretary of State John Kerry's warning that Israel will be "blamed" if Congress opposes the Iran agreement conjures up troubling memories of other instances in which Israel or Jews were warned they might be blamed for international conflicts. John Kerry
U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Jane Campbell
Secretary Kerry made his remark in an address to the Council of Foreign Relations on July 24. He appeared to be not merely predicting that Israel might be blamed, but hinting that the Obama administration itself might do the blaming. And since the administration has repeatedly claimed that rejection of the agreement will lead to war with Iran, the implication of Kerry's statement seems to be that Israel, the Jewish state, would be to blame for such a war.
The possibility that the blame would be extended to Israel's supporters in the United States has already been raised by President Obama himself, in his warning that unnamed "lobbyists" and "money" were trying to block the Iran deal.
One unfortunate comparison brought to mind by this kind of talk is an episode involving the pundit and unsuccessful presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. In the months preceding the first Persian Gulf war, Buchanan charged that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East—the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States."
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Wasn’t it Hitler that blamed everything on the Jews?
Kerry, Obama, just pass your Enabling Acts and get it over with.
We know you want to.
So what!? The Jews are blamed for everything anyway.
Despicable.
This comment is from a liberal puke who got a silver star for killing an already dead VC... Piss off, Kerry!
Israel: “Go ahead, blame us, everything else is blamed on us already anyhow, what’s one more.”
Jews are already blamed for everything. Why, even evil Christianity can be blamed on the Jews. Isn’t that the typical leftist view?
Yo, Lurch, whoever does kill this horrible deal will be PRAISED as a Patriot and brave visionary, willing to be branded a “racist” for defying the worst, dumbest , most Marxist POTUS in US history, you idiot dolt.
Jihad John...Kerry
They don’t need no steenking enabling acts. With an oversized regulatory branch, they already have a bunch of mini-enabling acts. O does as he pleases on immigration, the environment (via the EPA ), Obamacare, and now Iran. No general enabling act required.
The Joooosss did it.
So, who is going to get blamed if the “deal” with Iran is successfully concluded (to the satisfaction of the Current Occupant now squatting in the White, er, “Rainbow” Hut), and the whole thing goes south, as it will once Iran has acquired nuclear weaponry?
That may not for several years, but given a do-over, would it have ever been wise for Jimmy Carter to have encouraged the coup that toppled the Shah in 1979? Until then, Saddam Hussein had no chance of ever acquiring the power and influence that put him on the path to confrontation with the world in 1991.
WE all know the chain of events since then.
A similar chain of events has now been initiated.
People blame the Jews for everything.
The Jews elected Obama, they fell over themselves. For what? To be kill. Stupid people.
Threatening Jews...makes one nostalgic for the SS or, more likely, the Democrats Einsatzgruppen (that’s German for Dept. of Justice).
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