T. Belman. AIPAC announces it will seek to get Congress to reject this deal. Unfortunately it also recommends that a better deal be sought. This is what Bibi asked for i.e. a better deal. But if this is the best deal available, they have no answer. I would have preferred that they left it at rejecting this deal. I would also preferred that they condemned this deal in forceful language.
As promised in my letter to you yesterday, AIPAC’s policy experts have carefully reviewed the entire proposed nuclear agreement with Iran, including all of its annexes. Following our detailed assessment, we have come to the unfortunate conclusion that this agreement does not achieve the minimum requirements necessary for an acceptable deal.
AIPAC admires the determined efforts by America’s negotiating team over the past many months, and we remain committed to a successful diplomatic process to bring about an end to Iran’s nuclear weapons quest. As we have said since the negotiations began in 2013, diplomacy offers the best path to peacefully resolving the Iranian nuclear issue. Regrettably, however, the deal presented yesterday in Vienna falls short of its intentions to make the United States, Israel and our allies safer. In fact, we believe this agreement will do the opposite.
We can, and we must, do better.
Over the next 60 days, AIPAC will focus on one goal: engaging and convincing members of the House and Senate to oppose this deal and ultimately seek a better one.
A congressional rejection of this bad agreement will require the passion and political activism of every single member of our movement. This effort will demand unprecedented resources, energy and focus to engage our representatives in Washington and to articulate the grave consequences of accepting this deal.
AIPAC published a press release moments ago, which further explains our position and details our concerns with the proposed deal. Please read this statement (included below) and share it broadly with those in your community. In addition, please take a look at this fact sheet highlighting six unacceptable consequences of the proposed agreement.
I am proud to stand with you and with AIPAC as we meet this challenge together and work to safeguard our future.
Thank you for all that you are about to do.
Sincerely,
Robert A. Cohen
AIPAC President
AIPAC refused to oppose the Corker Amendment that inverted the treaty process and thereby guaranteed Obama would prevail. This meaningless gesture by AIPAC is too little too late, a cynical ploy to create the illusion of opposition where none exists. The Republicans employ this ruse constantly to deceive their naive voters while accommodating their rapacious benefactors,
The time for AIPAC to assert support for Israel was when Corker proposed reducing the number of senate votes Obama needed from 67 to 34. The die is now cast, and AIPAC knows it. It is a group run by liberal Democrats that has never opposed Obama in any meanungful way, and this sleight of hand changes nothing.
Wow, I had given up on AIPAC. May contribute again.
This is HUGE!
It prompts me to consider joining.
Perhaps ADL is next?