Posted on 09/06/2015 1:54:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Long-time Democrat, Israel defender and famed law professor Alan Dershowitz told a synagogue audience on Saturday night that he was “furious” with President Obama over the Iran nuclear deal.
Speaking at Manhattan’s illustrious Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side to a crowd gathering for the pre-high-holiday Selichot prayer service, Dershowitz implied he had been betrayed by the president he had formerly championed.
He recounted being invited to the Oval Office before Obama’s reelection in 2012, where the president had committed to being vigilant on the Iranian nuclear issue. Obama has now crossed many of his own red lines, said Dershowitz, who backed Obama in two elections.
The international law expert, who just published The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes? –– a book he completed in 11 days — went on to point out that not a single senator who announced support for the deal was of the opinion that it was a good agreement.
He also asserted that the P5+1 powers have entered into an as yet unseen secret side deal with Iran, which negates the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s central premise: that “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
The former Harvard scholar said the deal was worse than Russian roulette, because there is a “more than a one-in-six chance under this deal that Iran will develop nuclear weapons.”
As someone who knows the Israeli prime minister, he insisted that Benjamin Netanyahu is “not going to preside over a second Shoah,” and if it came to the “terrible tragic choice” of allowing Iran to go nuclear or taking military action, the premier would chose the latter.
The current battle in Congress over the upcoming vote on the nuclear deal will by no means end the issue, Dershowitz added, saying, “The small battle has been lost; the big battle is just beginning.”
His remarks followed those of Park East’s senior rabbi, Arthur Schneier, who called for Jewish unity on the Iran issue in his annual “State of World Jewry” address, preceding the Selichot prayers. The prestigious gathering, led by Chief Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, has been described as “a major occasion for the city’s most prominent socialites, a must-attend event for the wealthy and powerful.”
Its amazing how dumb some smart folks are.
I’ll bet he didn’t vote for Mitt!
I wonder if he’ll be at the rally Tuesday?
He will vote for Hillary.
Took 7 years for him to see the light on Obama? This one must be particularly stupid.
This is just for show....American Jews by a vast majority have shown their colors....
Julius Lowenthal: "Liston, there are nearly a million Jews in Germany. what are they going to do? Kill all of us?" - From the movie "Ship of Fools" (1965)
someone as (tremendously) bright as Alan ... should have seen what Obama was.... long, long ago
Alan’s statement or admission today.... is the most vivid proof imaginable....(and there’s been FAR too much proof of this) just how naïve or inept many people are when it comes to recognizing the face of a mortal enemy (this statement applies to many Jewish people ... and many others too) ...
All Americans need to realize what we’re dealing with is a far, far cry worse, more dangerous to us...more hostile to America...than anything we’ve ever faced before
Park East Synagogue is what they call “modern Orthodox.”
Doesn’t matter - the die is cast.
Dersh wanted to believe above all else and ignored all the sign posts along the way. I’m concerned the right is about to make a repeat performance with Trump and will be burned badly...
You were "furious" with Jimmy Carter but you campaigned for him in '76, didn't you? And who can forget the Clinton impeachment hearings when you said that people like me represented "true evil?"
You made your bed; now lie in it!
Stop voting for Dems, Alan.
That is a d@mn ugly question and you know it.
Jews' primary loyalty is not to any country or government but to HaShem. The primary loyalty of every human being who has ever lived, Jewish or non-Jewish, is with HaShem Who created them.
The primary loyalty of everything in existence is to HaShem.
In the ancient and medieval world the Jews were expelled by evil people who resented the Jews' loyalty to HaShem. I can assure you that Jews were not making any dirty movies back then. In fact, liberal Jews did not exist . . . only Torah-true Jews and apostates.
Orthodox do not have "temples" because the only Temple is the one in Jerusalem. Those sects that call their synagogues "temples" are supersessionists.
While ultimately only G-d can judge, in my poor opinion you are certainly a better Jew than one who goes regularly to a so-called "temple."
No they are not. "Conservative Jews" (capital-C) are a specific "denomination" of liberal "Judaism" slightly to the right of Reform (and that ain't saying much). They may be conservative (small-c) Jews but they are not Conservative Jews. They are Orthodox Jews.
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