A Time to Decide: Who is America’s Enemy and who is America’s Friend
Soon a bill will be taken up by the Senate to require the President to submit the Iran nuclear agreement to the Senate for review before it is signed by the him. Obama intends to delegate the vote to the UN instead of the U.S. Senate.
It is reported that all 54 Republican and 10 Democrat Senators are on board to vote for the bill. To obtain a veto proof bill 3 more Democrat Senators will need to vote for the bill.
This is a time when Democrat Senators will have to decide on whether they think they have a role to play in the security of the U.S., Israel and other allies, or are willing to delegate their vote to the UN.
It is a time for Democrat Senators to decide if they wish to allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
It is also a time for Democrat Senators to decide if they wish to scrap the long held U.S. anti nuclear proliferation policy.
In the past on numerous occasions Obama has demonstrated hostility toward Israel. Since Israel has opposed the Iranian nuclear agreement Obama’s hostility has turned from hostility to open belligerence. From Obama’s behavior you would think Israel is America’s enemy and Iran is America’s friend. Israel has never been a partisan issue. However Obama is calling upon Congress to make it a partisan issue and take sides.
If the Democrats take sides against Israel this will be a tragedy for both Israel and America. Obama will be gone in a year and a half, but Israel and America will never stop working together as friends. Israel is the only democracy in the most dangerous region of the world and both countries must never stop working together as friends for their common good.
Israel is America’s friend and Iran is America’s enemy.
Readers should contact their Senator today to support the Corker-Menendez bill.
Trying to head off a vote on legislation that would require Congressional review of a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration is lobbying senators not to support the bill, Politico reported yesterday.
The White House is moving aggressively to limit Democratic defections on Capitol Hill that could undermine its negotiations with Iran, dispatching senior officials and President Barack Obama himself to lobby senators against taking action before a nuclear deal with the rogue regime is reached. Senior administration officials have asked Senate Democrats to notify the White House if they are considering signing onto a bill drafted by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) that would give Congress the ability to accept or reject any nuclear deal. The push, several Senate sources said, is to prevent a veto-proof majority from building by heading off any fresh Democratic support for the plan and persuade supporters to keep their powder dry until the conclusion of multilateral negotiations with Iran. The lobbying effort has come from all quarters. Obama has spoken directly with Democratic senators on the Foreign Relations Committee, including Ben Cardin of Maryland. Other senators who are weighing whether to join the legislative effort, such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have been briefed by the likes of Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew have reached out directly to senators, according to sources on Capitol Hill.
Earlier this week, Iranian officials signaled that they would not accept a deal that would require them to dismantle the Fordow enrichment facility or to stop building the heavy water reactor at Arak. Last week Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif leaked plans that the deal being discussed would involve having the United Nations Security Council lift all sanctions imposed on Iran for its illicit nuclear program.
Although President Barack Obama promised in November 2013, when the Joint Plan of Action was signed, that he would “continue to work closely with Congress,” legislators have been frustrated by reports late last year that the president intended to bypass Congress when it came to any nuclear deal with Iran.
