Elkin criticizes US rabbis for backing Iran deal

Immigrant Absorption Minister Ze’ev Elkin, a member of the security cabinet, criticized a large group of American rabbis who sent a letter to Congressmen Tuesday urging that they support the Iranian nuclear deal.

 

Elkin, who is one of the politicians closest to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he was disappointed that the rabbis have not joined efforts to persuade Congress to reject the deal next month when it votes on the controversial agreement.

 

“The American Jewish community has always been proud that it defends the State of Israel and represents it,” Elkin told Army Radio.

 

“If the Jews of America did not attain their strength [for this], for what else?” Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich said the US was a democratic country in which everyone had a right to their opinion. and downplayed the letter.

 

“It is clear to me that the overwhelming majority of American Jews oppose the deal and think as I do that it is dangerous for Israel,” Smotrich said.

 

The letter was signed by 340 rabbis from all streams of Judaism and sent to all members of Congress.

 

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