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White House's 'blocking back,' convicted felon, to sell Iran nuke deal to Jews

The Obama administration is calling on J Street to drum up support for its deal granting Iran nuclear weapons.

The White House is targeting Jewish groups in its latest push to blunt congressional criticism of an Iran deal that observers expect to be sealed in the coming days, according to a recording of a strategy conference call obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and experts familiar with the call.

The White House’s liaison to the Jewish community on Monday advised dozens of progressive groups to push a poll commissioned and distributed by the liberal fringe group J Street, which has been defending a deal with Iran.

Matt Nosanchuk, an official in the White House Office of Public Engagement, who also serves as Jewish liaison, cited J Street’s poll and urged liberal activists present on the call to cite its numbers when defending a deal with Iran.

The private strategy call, which included more than 100 participants, was organized by the Ploughshares Fund, a liberal group that has spent millions of dollars to slant Iran-related coverage and protect the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts.

Nosanchuk told participants there is support for the deal “within the Jewish community, where J Street has recently done a poll that shows even in that community when you describe the terms of a deal you have upwards of 78 percent of respondents supporting it.”

Virtually all polling stretching back several months, including polling featured on conservative and progressive outlets, shows that while Americans are divided on the wisdom of negotiations, they believe that a deal would not prevent Iran from constructing a nuclear weapon.

Critics of J Street’s poll have pointed out that it polled respondents on a hypothetical deal that does not actually exist.

The Ploughshares Fund's efforts to promote a nuclear Iran are led by Robert Creamer, a convicted felon 
who served time for fraud and tax charges in 2006-07. Creamer is married to none other than "J Street Jan" Schakowsky (D-Il). This is from the first link in the paragraph.

[Washington Free Beacon's Adam] Kredo obtained an audio recording of the call. “Progressive leaders on the call told participants to prepare for a ‘real war’ and repeatedly declared that “the other side will go crazy” in the coming days,” he reported.

White House officials stressed “the importance of this to the president,” and Creamer told activists they should be “blitzing the hell out of the Hill,” particularly Democrats. His wife, self-styled “pro-Israel” Rep. Schakowsky, reportedly shouted her encouragement during the call.

Creamer rose to public attention in 2009, when Breitbart News revealed that he had written the political blueprint for passing Obamacare while serving time in federal prison. Anticipating the election of a “progressive” president in 2008, Creamer had advised a campaign for “universal health care” that would serve as the first of several radical policy changes aimed at transforming America and the world. Creamer, a community organizing guru in Chicago, had advised the Obama campaign upon leaving prison.

Writing in Israel Hayom, Richard Baehr notes that Creamer and fellow activists aim to reduce the Iran deal to political terms: “This is to be all about party loyalty, ‎and supporting the president and his agenda, because this is very ‎important to him,” Baehr notes. “In time, after the critics make their case, the deal ‎will likely be sold as a choice between war and peace…”.

Given that the emerging deal favors Iran, Baehr adds, the left-wing activists backed by the White House are effectively lobbying for the regime.

This post is being presented in the interest of knowing your enemy. 

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, J Street, Jan Schakowsky, liberal Jews, P 5+1

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:45 PM