By:  INN.com

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Joe Biden intends to nominate Jacob J. Lew as America’s next Ambassador to Israel.

Lew, who practices Orthodox Judaism, has observed Shabbat throughout his governmental career and has deep relationships with the Jewish community throughout the US.

Lew previously served as Secretary of the Treasury and Chief of Staff under the Obama Administration.

Lew would replace Thomas Nides, who resigned as US Ambassador to Israel in May. He would assume his post amidst tensions between the left-wing Biden Administration in the US and the right-wing Netanyahu government in Israel. The Biden Administration has opposed the Israeli government’s efforts to reform Israel’s judicial system and opposes Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. The governments also disagree on the Iranian threat, with the US pursuing a new nuclear deal with the ayatollahs.

He would be the third Orthodox Jew to serve as US Ambassador to Israel, and the first to do so under a Democratic President. Daniel Kurtzer served as the Bush Administration’s envoy to Israel from 2001-2005, and David Friedman served as ambassador under the Trump Administration from 2017-2021.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen welcomed Lew’s nomination. “Jacob Lew is a true friend of the State of Israel. We look forward to working with him in the spirit of cooperation and our alliance based on shared values, and to continue to strengthen the relationship between Israel and the United States.”

On August 13th, Israel National News columnist Barry Shaw wrote, :In June 2015, Lew made a lengthy speech at a Jerusalem Post event in New York during which he trotted out every Obama line (and lie) selling the awful Iran deal to American and Israeli audiences.

Speaking on behalf of Obama, Lew pledged that “the final deal will be built around an incredibly robust and intrusive inspections regime on Iran’s nuclear program” and that “this deal will only be finalized if the connective tissue of the agreement meets a tough standard of intense verification and scrutiny.”

How did that work out? Not very well, to put it mildly.

Hidden from view behind the fine words heralding a better future were the facts that the deal placed Iranian military facilities, where nuclear weaponization development were taking place, off limits to inspectors.

Lew did not inform his Jerusalem Post audience or Americans, that the small print of the bad Obama deal placed more barriers than the Grand National horse race in front of IAEA inspectors. Before inspectors could gain access, the Iranians had time to cover up what they were actually doing. They were even allowed to gather and provide their own soil samples to the IAEA inspectors.

This deal was one of trust without verification.

So, instead of “incredibly robust and intrusive inspections” and “intense verification,” listed by Lew, the Iranians were allowed by Lew’s boss to cheat their way to the bomb.”

Lew assured Jerusalem Post readers that “we are not operating on an assumption that Iran will act in good faith.”But that was precisely what Obama, Lew, and Wendy Sherman, were doing.

Jack Lew also asserted that “what we are doing is to effectively guarantee that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. Making sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon is a national security priority of the highest order.”

As ZOA’s Mort Klein put it, “never” actually meant ten years.

Basically, the never deal sold by Lew was in reality, as Benjamin Netanyahu predicted at the time.

(INN.com)