Hillary’s deadly Iran deal

Let’s focus for a moment on two major headlines that occurred on the same day last week. The first was that Donald Trump continued to feud with the Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of murdered American war hero Humayun Khan. The second was President Barak Obama, last January, sent the Iran terror regime $400 million in cash, which in all likelihood will be used to fund terrorism.

Now, I will never defend Trump’s gratuitous insults to so many groups, especially the grieving parents of a fallen American soldier. It’s unforgivable and Trump must apologize. The same is true of his immoral proposal to temporarily ban Islamic immigrants into the US, which I have repeatedly denounced.

{mosads}But for all that, which is worse? Trump’s utterly offensive insults, or Obama secretly giving a terror regime nearly half a billion dollars in cold cash?

Hillary Clinton has vowed to continue Obama’s policies on Iran, handing over to the mullahs $150 billion. She will also honor the nuclear agreement, that in about ten years, will make it legal for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

Are Trump’s unforgivable verbal put-downs of Mexicans, Muslims, and parents of fallen soldiers—disgusting as they are—worse than Hillary’s actions in funding the Iranian terror regime and facilitating the Iran nuclear agreement?

There is the age-old Jewish question of whether words or actions are more consequential, to which the answer is clear: While words are always important, actions are infinitely more so.

Hillary’s participation, and stated commitment to continuing the funding of Iran— who will use the money to make Americans and Israeli orphans and widows— is a greater danger.The money that the President Obama— along with the aid of Clinton—is giving to Iran, is not offensive, it is deadly.

Clinton’s plans to continue giving Iran cold, hard cash will not just offend sensibilities. It will kill people.

In saying this I accept that my argument only applies if Trump’s words are never translated into action; I expect that they cannot be.

There is no reasonable way for Trump to enforce a ban on Muslim immigrants. While he may actually build a wall between the United States and Mexico, I don’t see that wall leading to the murder of innocents.

Likewise, if Trump continues to insult the parents of fallen American war heroes he will continue to invite the contempt and scorn of a large number of Americans, myself included. However, it will not lead to American soldiers dying. President Obama’s plane-load of cash to Iran will.

By Clinton allowing Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon through catastrophic Iran nuclear agreement— which Iran has repeatedly violated— can be potentially genocidal. Which, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme Iran leader, has made clear. She has never once objected to his repeated promises to wipe Israel off the map.

Supporting Iran, with its clear and present danger to the survival of the State of Israel and its promise to bring death to America, is a greater danger.

I wish I could sit Trump down in a locked room and tell him I’m not going to let him out until he understands that I have a son serving in the IDF on the Israel-Lebanon border right across from Hezbollah, Iran’s terror proxy army.

If Clinton wins the election, Hezbollah will get billions more money funneled from a Clinton Administration that can further endanger my son’s life.

As an American Jew who believes that stopping genocide is the foremost issue of any age, my number one concern today is stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and stopping their weapons flow to terrorists.

But senior Obama advisor, Ben Rhodes, revealed to The New York Times that the Administration, with Clinton as secretary of State, was negotiating with Iran even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was president.

In Christianity, personal salvation always comes before communal redemption. It’s the righteousness of the man that matters. In Judaism, however, communal salvation is paramount. A person’s character is subordinate to their actions and the mark they leave on the world.

I couldn’t care less about Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. While others condemned him for demeaning the office of the Presidency, I always maintained that his failure to stop the 1994 Rwandan genocide was infinitely worse.

What Bill Clinton did behind closed doors had no impact on our lives. But when he didn’t stop the Rwandan slaughter, for a period of three months, 330 Africans were being slaughtered every hour without anyone to save them.

When it comes to leadership, it’s not personal morality that we look for but public contribution to the world’s improvement. Hillary Clinton has promised to fund a government that hangs gays and stones women which speaks to a general unwillingness to confront evil.

In 2010, she gave, Benjamin Netanyahu—what’s been described as a 43 minute tongue-lashing on the issue of Israeli settlements and boasted to the Washington Post, “I was often the designated yeller” of the Obama Administration to Bibi.

Clinton wants to reward Palestinian kleptocracy and terror with the creation of a Palestinian state even as Mahmoud Abbas incites the murder of Jews in the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Can Donald Trump change his behavior and stop the insults? Perhaps not. If he continues he is almost certain to lose the election. But Hillary’s pledge to continue to fund Iran must be even more strongly resisted.

Shmuley Boteach, whom The Washington Post calls “the most famous rabbi in America” is the author most recently of “The Israel Warriors Handbook.” Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley

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