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Southfield Rally

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Wednesday, Sep. 23rd

Speakers urge participants to tell
officials to vote against Iran deal.

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ore than 250 people, includ-
ing many from the Jewish
community, attended a rally
against the proposed Iran agreement at
the Southfield Civic Center on Aug. 26.
Speakers, including Staff Sgt. Robert
Bartlett of Veterans Against the Deal,
urged participants to contact their
elected officials in Congress to vote
against the deal — mostly because
Iran's leaders have not been trustworthy.
"I applaud the P5 + Germany on
their efforts to achieve peace with Iran:'
said Rabbi Aaron Starr of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, one of the
speakers. "It was not only strategically
prudent, but also morally sound. We
must actively seek peace.
"Yet, despite the best of intentions,
we must acknowledge that the pur-
suit of peace has left us with a Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action that is
not only bad, but wrong, too.
"From a strategic perspective, with
trust as the foundation for any agree-
ment, we cannot consider Iran a
trustworthy negotiating partner. The
Iranian regime is proudly and openly
theocratic, oppressive, xenophobic,
aggressive, anti-Semitic, misogynistic
and homophobic:'
Starr expanded on his feeling that the
deal is morally wrong.
"For the Jewish people, peace is our
vision and preservation of life is our
mission," he said. "Nearly any com-
mandment may be abrogated if one's
life is in question. Among the few
exceptions to that concept, however,
is the commandment 'Thou shalt not
murder:
"In releasing billions of dollars to the
Iranian regime — a government that
blatantly supports Hezbollah, llamas
and others as it seeks to destabilize the

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Rabbi Aaron Starr of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek takes the podium.

entire Middle East — we are effectively
saying to Iran, 'If you return your gun
to your holster rather than pointing it at
us, we will give you a knife to go around
and hurt others instead.'
"If in giving the Iranians this money
they use any of it to continue what they
are already doing despite the sanctions,
we become, in effect, accomplices to
their murderous and violent ways. This
is not only a bad deal, but it is also a
morally reprehensible one as well:'
Hannan Lis of Farmington Hills, a
community leader and entrepreneur,
also spoke at the rally.
"This issue for me is not a political
issue and, despite of my Democratic
leanings, I oppose this deal:' he said.
An argument could be made that this
is possibly the best deal we could have
arrived at. My problem is really the
overall intent of Iran. This is a nation
that had already proclaimed that even
with this deal it intends to continue to
kill Americans, and they will continue
to pursue the destruction of Israel.
"Iran's leaders have boasted that
the money that will be released to
them once the deal is implemented
will help them bolster their proxies
in the region. Iran has a clear plan for
what it intends to accomplish, a plan
that stands in stark opposition to the
interest of the U.S. and its allies in the
Mideast.
As a Jew, Israeli and American, I
pay attention to the lesson of history
that teaches me that when someone
threatens to destroy my country and
kill me, they really mean it and I should
consider their threats to be real.
"Because the agreement totally side-
steps the issue of Iran's ultimate goals
while providing it with tremendous
access to wealth and with international
legitimacy to become a nuclear thresh-
old nation within 10-15 years, I cannot
support this dear Lis said. "I urge all
of you to ask our representatives in the
House and Senate to oppose this very
dangerous agreement:'
The nonprofit Veterans Against the
Deal partnered with the nonpartisan
group Citizens Against a Nuclear Iran
to host the rally. Eugene Greenstein,
who helped form the nonpartisan
group, served as emcee.

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