Israel Matzav: Obama to pro-Israel leaders: 'We don't care whether Israel lives or dies

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Obama to pro-Israel leaders: 'We don't care whether Israel lives or dies - we just want a deal'

Adam Kredo reports that pro-Israel leaders are alarmed at President Obama's attempts to divide them in the interest of allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons (Hat Tip: MuseumTwenty).

The Obama administration sought to enlist the pro-Israel leaders in their fight to delay Congress from passing a new round of Iran sanctions for at least two months as the West engages Tehran with nuclear talks.

Most of those present at the meeting quietly objected to such a delay. However, the administration’s allies soon began leaking information about a so-called “moratorium” on new sanctions efforts.

“Leaders of four major Jewish organizations have indicated to the Obama administration that they will have a 60-day moratorium during which they will refrain from conducting any public campaign urging Congress to strengthen U.S. sanctions against Iran,” the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported late Friday.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman also confirmed reports of a communal “time out” on Saturday, prompting a pitched response from others present in the meeting.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said in a rare public statement on Saturday that it would not back down from its push for new sanctions.

“AIPAC continues to support congressional action to adopt legislation to further strengthen sanctions, and there will absolutely be no pause, delay or moratorium in our efforts,” AIPAC president Michael Kassen said in the statement.

“Until Iran suspends its enrichment program, additional sanctions are vital for diplomacy to succeed,” said Kassen, who noted that “diplomatic talks have been made possible because of the strong sanctions passed by Congress and implemented by the administration.”

The American Jewish Committee also denied reports that they had agreed to advocate a delay of new sanctions.

The public dispute between typically united pro-Israel groups led some insiders to criticize the White House for “trying to divide the Jewish community” in an attempt to “undermine congressional support for a new round of sanctions,” according to one senior Senate aide involved in the sanctions debate.

“The message we heard from the White House is clear—we don’t care if Israel lives or dies, we just want to cut a deal,” a senior Jewish official involved in Iran sanctions efforts said on Monday. “Another way to read the AIPAC statement is: ‘Go F yourselves.’”

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“There are only two other major groups carrying water for the Obama administration on this: The National Jewish Democratic Council [NJDC], which is a partisan organization and has to support the White House, and J Street, which has secretly worked with pro-Iran lobbies,” the official said.

“I expect that Abe Foxman will be getting some very confused and angry phone calls from other Jewish leaders and from his supporters,” the source said.

I raised suspicions about Obama and his attitude toward Jews and Israel as far back as March 2007. By January 2008, I concluded that he was bad for the Jews and for Israel, and that we should not vote for him.

Too bad so few people listened.

Labels: American Jews, Barack Hussein Obama, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat