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.
Kerrys 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 Kerrys remarks in a statement.
Congress will not reject the agreement due to pressure from Israel, but because they deem the Obama administrations 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 Kerrys comments, which appeared to intimate that Israel has the ability to control U.S. officials.
Were 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 Irans 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.
Just like Madeleine “Korbel.”
It doesn’t matter what Congress does. The UN Security Council passed it 15-0. The deal is being implemented. 34 Senators will make sure that Obama’s veto is upheld. Game, set and match. Kerry’s appearances before Congress are just window dressing. Entirely meaningless.
I’m reminded of Vince Lombardi said. “If you think you’re beat, you are.”
Denial just ain’t a river in Egypt.
Israel will be blamed if the US doesn’t let Iran who has sworn to kill all the Jews get a nuclear bomb?
And if we do let Iran get nukes, they won’t blame the Jews whom they have sworn to kill?
Just protecting his daughter’s husband’s family in Iran ...
They’ll blame the Jews regardless, so what’s Kerry’s point? Give in to your enemies so they don’t blame you for wanting to have safety and security? It’s a cheap ploy to scare liberal Jews.
Must be the Saul Alinsky Book on How to make America look like a reak Despotic nation. have a Vietnam War Traitor become the Secretary of State and have a worthless commnist loving Chicago Politician as the president , plus a bunch of mindless and worthless Senators whom are actually career politicians and what do you get? America gives a third world disaster the chance to become a nuclear supplier to world wide terrorists. How will it work out, the world goes kaboom.
Oren was the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., not the other way around.
And the vast majority of American Jews will vote for a**holes like Kerry, again and again...
Congress won’t reject the deal over Obama’s veto unless Chuck Schumer goes against it. And only the Jooz could make Chuckie do that. /S
Jews know they will always be blamed both ways.
Not loyal enough to Israel? Shame! Self-hater!
Loyal to Israel? Disloyal to America! Dual loyalty!
Jews know, and the GOP proves, Dems are America’s ruling class, and it’s in Jewish communal interest to ingratiate itself with the ruling class.
no, that boy in the white house will always be blamed
Someone said Kerry’s foal married an Iranian. Anyone know about that?
Though other lying Democrat sacks of rotting feces ran a VERY CLOSE second...
I guess he’s going to deny all efforts to pin the failure on himself. Starting a wee bit early. Maybe he knows something. ;)
The German American National Socialist party (NAZI) lives on.
(The left wing Luciferians have always hated the Jews.)
It’s the Jooos
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