Posted on 08/26/2015 1:01:45 PM PDT by Dave346
Nearly 900 American rabbis have signed a petition urging the US Congress to reject the recently-signed nuclear deal with Iran.
The online petition hopes to garner 1,000 signatures by September 7 - the date Congress is set to vote on the agreement. So far 887 "ordained rabbis" from various denominations have signed.
A majority vote against is almost inevitable given the Republican majority in both houses, but so too is a presidential veto, which Barack Obama has clearly said he will use in the event the deal is voted down.
The challenge then for opponents of the deal is to gain a two-thirds majority in both houses of congress to overturn the veto - an achievement that is looking increasingly unlikely as Democratic legislators have mostly rallied behind the president.
Earlier in August 340 liberal American rabbis signed a controversial call to congress to back the deal. Their letter provoked anger within the wider American Jewish community, many of whom, like the State of Israel, view the accord as a "bad deal" which paves the way for Iran to become a nuclear-armed power and emboldens it to pursue an ever-more aggressive foreign policy.
In response, 350 Orthodox Israeli rabbis signed an appeal of their own to Congress, urging them to reject the deal.
But the online campaign is more significant in that its signatories are all US citizens.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Actual petition is here:
How about the Bishops, Priests, Cardinals, Fathers, Pastors also signing the pledge???
It matters not. Obama will circumvent congress if he has to and do the deal on his own. He has a pen and a phone, and disdain for the constitution. Does anyone really think Republicans will lift a finger to stop him?
The Rabbis voted for BO twice, why are they against him now?
More “Crazies” Mr President?
Their eyes have been opened to the true and deadly danger that he himself promotes and, in fact, is.
3 to 1 against
Self haters?
Misguided liberals.
Oh gee, I haven’t read this in the Washington Post.
‘’September 7 - the date Congress is set to vote on the agreement’’
September 7th is Labor Day, the day Democratic politicians traditionally devote to attending local union-sponsored Labor Day picnics and parades and to socializing with their local labor leaders who, they hope, will contribute to their future political campaigns.
But apparently, the Democrats are more than happy this year to turn their backs on their Big Labor friends and end their vacations early to come to Washington to approve a treaty that will harm Israel, give the Iranian Ayatollahs $150 billion dollars to promote more Middle East terrorism, and help them build nuclear bombs and long-range missiles capable of hitting the United States.
You’d think that at least a few Democratic Senators, particularly the Jewish ones, would choose to stay home and show Labor-Day solidarity with the unions who fund their campaigns rather than show loyalty to the Ayatollahs who have done nothing but promote the killing of innocent people, but does anyone think a single Democrat will fail to appear in Washington for the September 7th vote?
Sad to say obama does not give a rat’s A$$.
Nah - we need Iran to annihilate Israel and nuke a few US cities; the human population is too numerous and should be culled.
And it’s Obama’s enlightened ‘Population Policy’.
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