Schumer: I’ll live up to my name and be ‘Shomer for Yisroel’

Senator Charles Schumer told Achiezer’s gala on Sunday in Atlantic Beach the he would fight any “bad deal” with Iran and would continue his commitment to serve as a “Shomer Yisroel” (guardian over Israel).

“When Prime Minister Netanyahu comes to America and says that a nuclear Iran is an existential threat to the state of Israel, he means every word. Existential means the existence,” Schumer said.

“Palestinians are trouble, but Israel can handle it,” he continued. “Hamas and Hezbollah are trouble, but Israel can handle it. But a nuclear Iran could wipe out the state of Israel.”

Schumer said he would support tougher sanctions if there is no agreement, and “if there’s a bad agreement, Congress should have the ability to undo it.”

Playing on his name, Schumer said his family had been shomrim of a ghetto’s wall in Europe. His name, modified at Ellis Island, was “Shoimer.”

“I will always will be shomer Yisroel,” he pledged. “I will do everything I can to see that Am Yisroel chai.”

Schumer praised Achiezer’s work and recounted how he helped Rabbi Yaakov Bender, the father of Achiezer’s president, establish Hatzalah on East 7th Street in Flatbush in 1977.

Achiezer honored community leaders at its annual dinner at The Sands Atlantic Beach.