Posted on 07/24/2015 12:08:59 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
Former Israeli ambassador Oren slams Kerry comments
Secretary of State John Kerry is under fire from Israeli officials for claiming on Friday that the Jewish state will be blamed if Congress rejects the recently announced Iranian nuclear deal.
Kerry’s comments came during remarks before the Council on Foreign Relations. Analysts and experts on social media were quick to label the comments inappropriate.
“I fear that what could happen is if Congress were to overturn it, our friends Israel could actually wind up being more isolated and more blamed,” Kerry said.
Michael Oren, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel who recently released a memoir of his service in the Obama administration, quickly condemned Kerry’s remarks in a statement.
Congress will not reject the agreement due to pressure from Israel, but because they deem the Obama administration’s deal to be flawed and dangerous, Oren said.
“If American legislators reject the nuclear deal, they will do so exclusively on the basis of U.S. interests,” Oren said in the statement. “The threat of the Secretary of State who, in the past, warned that Israel was in danger of becoming an apartheid state, cannot deter us from fulfilling our national duty to oppose this dangerous deal.”
One senior official at a prominent pro-Israel organization in Washington, D.C. expressed alarm at Kerry’s comments, which appeared to intimate that Israel has the ability to control U.S. officials.
“We’re into the first week of congressional debate over the Iran deal and the president, the secretary of state, and their allies are already smearing shadowy moneyed lobbies and scapegoating Israel,” said the source. “What are they going to save for week two?”
U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have expressed reservations about the deal over the past week.
Under the parameters of the agreement, Iran will be permitted to keep its nuclear infrastructure and to continue its nuclear enrichment after a 10-year period.
The agreement will also lift restriction on Iran’s purchase of military hardware and its ballistic missile program.
Additionally, U.S. inspectors will be prohibited from entering any Iranian nuclear site under the deal.
Easy to do if you're an anti-Semite.
Kerry-Carter-obama and their appeasement genes bring to mind a song:
Three blind 'Rats
Three blind 'Rats
See how they run ....
ditto / took the words out of my mouth
The entire regime is anti-Semitic!!!
Go to Hell, John.
Since Kerry is more Jewish than Irish, this is astounding...
Microaggression...
First of all, the fix is in and he knows it. He’s just taking gratuitous swipes because he’s doing the devil’s work for The Dictator.
It would be more accurate to say Obama, Kerry, Britain France, Germany, Russia, China, UN Security Council, and European Union.
If you want to look at it from the other direction it is the GOP, a few democrats , and Israel
Did he really say that? Seriously? Like ... wow!
What a less than worthless human being.
Kerry is anti-Semitic.
“Our friends in Israel could actually wind up being more isolated and more blamed,”
Really? More than they already are? If that’s the case why is Israel the loudest critic of the deal? Is that because their leader puts whats best for his country first? That Bibi actually has a pair of testicles, unlike you or your boss?
Does anyone other than Teresa believe the BS that comes out of this guy’s pie hole?
jews supported Obama and will pull the handle for Hillary too. They should think that by doing so—they will see Israel burned to a crisp with nuke bombs. Its all part of Gods plan.
And what it boils down to is can the Israeli lobby convince 13 senate dems and 44 House dems, to vote it down.
If they are successful, the world will say that the Israeli lobby, working on behalf of Israel, is running US foreign policy. And the world will blame Israel. That's a no-brainer.
He is stupid, his average in college was a C not to mention his allegiance to the country is in doubt considering he stabbed the military in the back. And THIS is who Obama picks to make deals with the #1 terror sponsoring country in the world?
Put a bowler on him and he could pass for Stan Laurel.
Well, better to be blamed than bombed with nukes.
Kerry is of Jewish descent. The name was “Kohn” before the family changed it and converted.
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