Hostile Reception For U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew At Jerusalem Post Conference
Source: Haaretz
Jack Lew, who affirmed Obamas commitment to Israels security, was handed one of the surliest receptions ever accorded to such a high-ranking administration official by a Jewish audience in the U.S.
By Chemi Shalev | Jun. 7, 2015 | 5:51 PM
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was booed loudly and consistently on Sunday by an irate audience at the annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York that rejected his affirmation of U.S. President Barack Obamas commitment to Israels security and his pledge to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
No administration has done more for Israels security than this one, Lew said, but the audience was having none of it. We are not operating on an assumption that Iran will act in good faith, Lew said, but his listeners responded with catcalls and cries of nonsense.
It was one of the surliest receptions ever accorded to such a high-ranking administration official by a Jewish audience in the United States. Jerusalem Post editor Steve Linde tried to calm the audience and apologized to Lew. Israeli Minister Yuval Steinitz, who spoke after Lew, said that he was a true friend of Israel and that without his help, Israel would never have been accepted to the OECD.
The audiences reaction reflected the anger and distrust towards the Obama administration that is steadily growing among right wing American Jews as the deadline for a deal with Iran approaches. It is also a mark of the increasingly harsh tone of discourteous tone of political debate in an increasingly polarized America, in general, and inside the Jewish community, in particular.
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Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)RandySF
(58,896 posts)They obviously don't know the difference between what a Treasury Sec. does as opposed to State or Defense.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)They are angry because Obama will not send our sons and daughters to die for a war on Iran. What misguided idiots and very destructive for America. Pity they have so much influence. Time to tell your senators and reps you are done giving them money.
ascap_scab
(23 posts)Send all who attended back to Israel and let them join the IDF. Ungrateful little sots.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Pariah status will be self inflicted.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)assholes just like their Christianist comrades. Fuckem.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Just what country are they a loyal citizen of, the U.S. or Israel? Israel would have been long ago been only a footnote in the history of the Middle East if it had not been for the United States support. The present government has no intention of seeking a two-state solution and is continuing to build in the captured territory that that only occupy because we armed them. They seem to forget that they came into power by use of terrorist tactics against the British.