Iranians, Syrians okay, but American dentist can’t serve country, because his mother lives in Israel

Russia will begin construction on two nuclear reactors in Iran next week, the spokesman for the Iranian atomic agency said today.

It comes a year after Tehran signed a contract with Moscow to build two reactors at the existing Russian-built Bushehr power plant in southern Iran. Russia plans a total of nine reactors in that country.

In the classic movie, Bambi falls asleep, but he is soon awakened by his father, who explains the forest is on fire and it’s time to run. He and dad gather up the other animals and they all seek refuge on a riverbank. It’s a story obsessively adored by children and some adults with minimal faculties.

Kerry, in his deer minister letter, also echoes the White House policy of ignoring the danger from radical Syrian immigrants, and not requiring visas. Kerry wants to accept some 10,000 of the undocumented in 2016.

So, you ask, what’s with the blog’s headline about the dentist?

The Wall Street Journal has reported:

When Gershon Pincus turned 60, he decided he wanted to give something back to his country. The Brooklyn-born father of four had maintained a successful private dental practice in New York City for 35 years.

As he would later attest in an affidavit, “I can think of no better way to experience the sunset of my career than by using my professional skills as a dentist to assist those who have chosen to serve in the United States military.” So Dr. Pincus turned to the USAJobs website, found an opening for part-time work at an off-base Naval clinic in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and applied.

He got the job, and in 2014 he was making a weekly commute of  400 miles to the clinic from his home in Queens. It was at lower pay than he had earned in private practice, but the chance to serve his country.

“That October, Dr. Pincus underwent a routine interview to obtain a security clearance for civilian employees. As part of the interview, he made note of his familial connections in Israel.

Two of his siblings had moved there in the 1980s, though neither worked for the Israeli government. His elderly mother, now suffering from dementia, had also moved there late in life, so her daughter could help take care of her. And one of Dr. Pincus’s children, Avi, had served briefly in the Israeli army before tragically succumbing to a drug overdose at an early age.

As for Dr. Pincus’s own connections to Israel, they amounted to three visits in the past decade, including one for his father’s funeral. He has no personal friends in Israel, no financial interests or holdings there, and no desire to ever hold an Israeli passport. He calls his mother on a weekly basis, and for a while handled her monthly rent and utilities bills. That’s it”, WSJ reported.

“There is nothing in subject’s background or character that would make him vulnerable to blackmail, extortion, coercion or duress,” the security investigation concluded. However, in March this year Dr. Pincus was called to a second interview, this time from a contract investigator sent by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Most questions, sent from OPM headquarters, concerned his potential connections to Israel. In September, Dr. Pincus’s security clearance was denied; he would not be allowed to perform dental work at the clinic. He was fired.

The “Statement of Reasons” by the OPM explained why:

“You have weekly telephone contact with your mother and brother in Israel. You added your mother, sister and brother may have contact with neighbors in Israel. Foreign contacts and interests may be a security concern due to divided loyalties or foreign financial interests, may be manipulated or induced to help a foreign person, group, organization or government in a way that is not in U.S. interests, or is vulnerable to pressure or coercion by foreign interests.”

The Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals maintains a public database of what are known as “Industrial Security Clearance Decisions” dating back to 1996, involving thousands of civilian cases. Since Obama came into office, there have been  58 cases in which Israeli ties were a significant factor in the decision. Of these, 36 applicants – 62% of the total -lost  appeals and had clearance applications denied. In comparison, there has been just one case of a French citizen losing an appeal and being denied a clearance, and zero involving British citizens.

The case will be appealed. Probably, Pincus will lose. The danger from a dentist, concerned with his mother’s dementia, will be eliminated by hate and fear of Jews with ties to Israel.

The real Bambi would not be proud.