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.”
[Alan Dershowitz told a synagogue audience on Saturday night that he was “furious” with President Obama...]
Can’t you just see him all red faced and stomping his foot?
Alan has been kissing leftist butt for so long, I don’t think he has much room for complaint after one of his heroes acts like an insane, amoral leftist.
The “extreme right”, are the only ones in this country with any sense of right and wrong; good versus evil. They are the only ones with any sense of loyalty anymore. They are the only ones who care about the constitution and pretty much understand what it means and that it means what it says.
Alan has spent his career fighting against the “extreme right” and on behalf of the amoral left.
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.
Then why did you elect the SOB.?.. Dipshit
you lie down with dogs, you're gonna wake up with fleas.
May God help us all as evil is empowered even more for destruction.
May God help us all as evil is empowered even more for destruction.
Who did you vote for Alan?
Alan is just being bitter, pro war, anti change, blah blah blah /end liberal smear and spin of lies.
Furious enough to change your political affiliation?
Yeah, right! He would back Obama again if he had a chance!!!
Dershowitz needs to come over from the Dark Side and join the good guys. He’s found himself at odds with Hussein more than once, generally over Israel. I keep waiting for the Jews to wake up and recognize who their real friends and protectors are.
Dershowitz suffered from pedophilia-interruptus, meaning he never got all the way to Pedo Island. He just raped the 16 year old in Epstein’s planes. And one time at Epstein’s home.
Did you know that at 30,000 feet no one is underage? Dersh is prepared to defend that in court...
Sarah knows what you are talking about, re the denominations, but she is just saying that chabadniks and other Orthodox Jews are the real “conservative” Jews politically.
You're right about that. I have attended Orthodox shuls (including in Isarael). I was tired and it slipped my mind. The Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism have called their houses of worship, temples. Another casting off of tradition and structure that I have trouble dealing with.
[[Did you know that at 30,000 feet no one is underage? Dersh is prepared to defend that in court...]]
Are you serious? You can’t be serious- if this is true then he’s an even bigger scumbag than I even thought possible
Alan Dershowitz got played by Obama and now he is mad. LOL, put some ice on that fool.
Alan Dershowitz has been the most inconsistent friend of Israel imaginable, going back many, many decades. He’s articulate, lays out the facts, and then ignores his own logic and turns around and votes for Obama!! Truly bizarre. He outlines the case for Israel and the evil of her enemies and then in breathtaking inconsistency follows the Democratic Party Pied Pipers off the cliff. I hereby dub his mental state, “Harvard Yard Derangement Syndrome.”
If all these American Jews don’t give a damn about what happens to Israel,
Why the hell should I???
Idiot - he backs Obama for both elections.
While he stamps his little foot, he probably mutters that it's good that Obama isn't running again or he'd be doing more supporting to regret at a later date...
Alan, you’re not the only one.
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