What Division? Jewish Community United as Ever Over Iran Deal

HAARETZ
by Seth Lipsky
September 1, 2015

Not only are left and right in Israel united in opposition to Obama’s compact of appeasement; the deal has made bedfellows of an astonishing array of Jewish organizations in America.

The New York Times is out with a story about U.S. President Barack Obama’s appeal to a Jewish community that is, in respect of the Iran deal, “divided and troubled.” I don’t buy it. I haven’t done a double-blind study, but looking back over my 35 or more years covering the Jewish beat, I find it hard to think of a major question on which the Jewish community has been more united than it is in its opposition to Obama’s compact of appeasement with Iran….It strikes me that the Jewish community is less divided and troubled over the Iran deal than it is, say, on matrilineal descent, or German reparations, or Zionism, or same-sex marriage, or conversion, or negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs. READ MORE

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