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Israeli Ambassador on Iran Deal: ‘We Cannot Roll the Dice’ on Survival of Jewish State
The Daily Signal ^ | May 14, 2015 | Josh Siegel

Posted on 05/15/2015 1:26:47 PM PDT by Dave346

Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, snapped his fingers to signify how quickly the Jewish state could go from being strong to vulnerable in the face of a nuclear Iran.

“We don’t believe the choice is war or to accept this deal,” Dermer said. “We believe the way to peacefully resolve this issue is to combine a credible, military threat of force with crippling sanctions.”

“That combination has not been deployed for 10 years,” he noted. “We had sanctions on Iran for a long time, but crippling sanctions only began in 2012. And within 18 months, Iran came to the negotiating table desperate to see those sanctions removed.”

“What this deal does is it dismantles the sanctions regime and leaves Iran with its nuclear program essentially intact—albeit with constraints, but within about a decade those constraints are removed and Iran will have an industrial [nuclear] program tomorrow,” Dermer said.

“Under this deal, Iran will walk into the nuclear club. The alternative to this is to hold firm, ratchet up pressure, and to not assume that what Iran won’t agree to today, they won’t agree to tomorrow.”

“Israel is a very strong country with a very strong economy, and a very resilient public,” Dermer said. “We didn’t come back from 2,000 years of exile to see a bunch of fanatical ayatollahs cut the thread of Jewish history. That’s not gonna happen.”

“We have to stay very strong, and have to recognize that because Israel is a very strong country, we can go from great strength to great vulnerability like that,” he continued. “If Israel makes mistakes, we can become very vulnerable very quickly. We cannot roll the dice on the future of the one and only Jewish state.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aprilfoolsirandeal; bomb; dermer; iran; israel; nuclear; nucleariran; rondermer; terror; war

1 posted on 05/15/2015 1:26:47 PM PDT by Dave346
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I really like Ron. He reminds me of Netanyahu.


2 posted on 05/15/2015 1:29:17 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Dave346

Hey, he can’t say “crippling sanctions.” It has to be differently-abled sanctions.


3 posted on 05/15/2015 1:33:13 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Dave346
Israeli Ambassador on Iran Deal: ‘We Cannot Roll the Dice’ on Survival of Jewish State

You would think that if someone wasn't an incompetent ignorant affirmative action jackass, they would realize that letting Iran get a bomb is a GUARANTEE that Israel is going to start a nuclear war with them.

But Obama is the stupidest clown that ever opened his eyes in the Whitehouse, and he doesn't have a freakin clue as to what's going to happen.

I Predict his name will be a substitute for the word "Stupid" in the future. He's already exceeded Chamberlain and Carter in his degree of naivety.

4 posted on 05/15/2015 1:38:43 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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This fall Jordan and Saudi Arabia will assist Israel in taking out Iran's major nuclear sites.
It will be kept secret from USA. Because Obama is a back-stabber. And patriots within US Intelligence will shield info from the lunatic in the Oval Office.
This will be the 2nd Christmas gift Israel has given the world.
5 posted on 05/15/2015 1:44:36 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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B T T T ! ! ! ©

6 posted on 05/15/2015 1:46:27 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Haha! Great point. Especially if he wishes to have any hope of winning over the extreme left in USA


7 posted on 05/15/2015 2:18:07 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“When the righteous are in authority, people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, people groan)
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The day the deal is announced Israel should attack


8 posted on 05/15/2015 3:45:59 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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9 posted on 05/16/2015 3:14:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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