It has always amazed me how a Jewish person could ever vote as a Democrat.  Pray tell me what has the Democrats ever done for the Jewish people but use them.  With this latest proof that the Democrats don’t give a hoot about the Jewish people is certainly evident with Obama’s latest move to give away the store to Iran.  It certainly puts the world in danger with that old man winter that is in charge of Iran.  The biggest question is how this supreme Iranian lives with himself when he has so much hate in his heart.

Saturday April 04, 2015

Rift Opens Between Jewish Voters and Democrats Over Israel

Friday, 03 Apr 2015

By Cathy Buke

A longstanding alliance between Jewish voters and the Democratic Party no longer appears very durable.

The rift — aggravated by a nuclear deal with Iran and sour relations between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — will likely have political implications in the 2016 elections, The Wall Street Journal reports.

“At this moment in time, many American Jews who have consistently voted Democratic are beginning to waver in that support, because they’ve felt the bedrock relationship between Israel and this administration has been severely shaken,” Rabbi Howard Buechler, of the Dix Hills Jewish Center in New York, told the Journal.

Republicans think the shift in loyalties could influence key Senate races in Florida and the Philadelphia and Chicago suburbs, the Journal reports.

For example, the Journal notes, a new email petition sent out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges people to sign and “tell Obama it’s now time to stand with Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu.”

Alan Kessler, a longtime Democratic fundraiser based in Philadelphia, told the Journal that Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey might have an easier re-election run because he’s a dependable supporter of Israel.

“It could make things more difficult” for a Democratic challenger, Kessler said.

Other Democrats worry that Jewish voters may want to punish some Democratic House and Senate members who boycotted Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress last month.

“Many fellow Democrats of the Jewish faith were appalled” that lawmakers didn’t show the prime minister “the respect and courtesy of being in the audience,” Democratic fundraiser Leonard Barrack told the Journal.

Still, Jewish voters would need to be wooed by Republicans on social issues, too, the Journal notes.

“Some of the politicians who come out very strongly in support of Israel propose certain social legislation and economic legislation that the Jewish community might not be comfortable with,” Rabbi Steven Moss, of the B’nai Israel Reform Temple in Oakdale, New York, told the Journal.  (This tells me if the Jewish people vote for Democratic candidates after what has just happened with the Iran deal and the way the Democrats treated Netanyahu by boycotting his speech – I would then have a question mark where their loyalty really is.

The rift could be particularly fraught for Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic frontrunner, the Journal notes.

So far she’s voiced tepid support for the Iran deal, saying it’s “an important step toward a comprehensive agreement that would prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”

New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey — at a meeting last week between Jewish Democratic House members and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough about the need for the president to “increase his popularity with our constituents,” according to one participant — told the Journal she didn’t like what she was hearing from the White House after Netanyahu’s election.

“I was extremely disturbed by some of the overheated rhetoric that came out of the administration following the [Israeli] election,” she told the Journal. “I conveyed directly to the White House that it’s time to dial back the temperature and affirm and strengthen the U.S.-Israeli relationship.”

It looks like Rep. Lowey telling the White House to dial back the temperature worked since Obama phoned Netanyahu from Air One.

President Obama phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Air Force One on Thursday to discuss the nuclear deal with Iran, the White House said.

Obama told Netanyahu “the framework represents significant progress towards a lasting, comprehensive solution that cuts off all of Iran’s pathways to a bomb and verifiably ensures the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program going forward,” according to a statement.

The president said the nuclear agreement “in no way diminishes our concerns with respect to Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and threats towards Israel” and directed his national security team to increase security consultations between the two governments.

During the call, Netanyahu told Obama that “a deal based on this framework would threaten the survival of Israel,” according to Mark Regev, a spokesman for the prime minister.

“This deal would legitimize Iran’s nuclear program, bolster Iran’s economy & increase Iran’s aggression & terror,” Regev tweeted. “Such a deal would not block Iran’s path to the bomb. It would pave it. ”

Netanyahu has been one of Obama’s staunchest critics for trying to broker an agreement to curtail Iran’s nuclear program. He condemned the framework deal on Thursday for giving up too much to Teheran.

“The concessions offered to Iran in Lausanne would ensure a bad deal that would endanger Israel, the Middle East and the peace of the world,” the Israeli leader tweeted. “Now is the time for the international community to insist on a better deal.”

Speaking from the Rose Garden before leaving Washington, Obama directly addressed the disagreement between himself and Netanyahu.

The president said he shares Israel’s concerns about Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and its threats against the Jewish state but reiterated that he thinks the deal is the best way to prevent Teheran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

“If, in fact, Prime Minister Netanyahu is looking for the most effective way to ensure Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon, this is the best option,” he said. “And I believe our nuclear experts can confirm that.”

If the Jewish people vote for the Democrats after all we have been through – then I will have lost my respect for the Jewish people.

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