FORWARD
by Michael Steinhardt
August 24, 2015

My 30 years as a hedge fund manager have taught me to spot someone attempting to hedge his bet. As I look around the American Jewish landscape, I see much of our leadership doing just that — crafting cleverly noncommittal “statements of concern” about the Iran deal, expressing neither approval nor disapproval. Many openly despair at the thought of the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism with as much as $150 billion extra dollars in its pocket. They acknowledge that the idea of Iran in possession of long range ballistic missiles or a nuclear weapon 10 years hence is a frightening one. They admit that one cannot trust the mullahs not to successfully cheat on the International Atomic Energy Agency. In other words, they know the deal is bad — and they know it is worst for Israel. And yet most of our Jewish communal leaders won’t come out to oppose it. Why? READ MORE