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J Street shuffle

Opinion

Written by The Jewish Chronicle

Friday, 30 October 2009 11:00

To the extent that J Street is the anti-AIPAC, we oppose it. By describing itself as “pro-Israel and pro-peace,” the new group appears to define itself against the long-established American Israel Public Affairs Council. As if AIPAC, whose task has been to secure vital U.S. political, economic and military support for the Jewish state, isn’t pro-peace!

AIPAC has been so effective it’s become a bogeyman to its enemies (i.e., Islamists and Walt/Mearsheimer types). But when this inside Jewish baseball gets picked up by the mainstream media — as everything involving Israel does — it’s a shanda fer de goyim.

Another thing that irks a longtime supporter of Israel is the conditional love expressed by J Street founder Jeremy Ben Ami and others. In many ways, it replays the split among American Jews over Israel’s response to the first Palestinian “intifada” in 1988: What makes these armchair generals and starry-eyed leftists think they know better than everyone actually living in Israel and serving in its defense forces?

True, Israel’s democratic processes can be criticized. But they are democratic processes.

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written by Fred Melcher, November 02, 2009

Obama and J Street, sitting in a tree: James Jones, the White House national security adviser, spoke recently to J Street, an anti-Israel lobbying group, and the New York Times reports a curious detail: General Jones did not offer any new policy prescriptions but received prolonged standing applause when he told the crowd of more than 1,000, "You can be sure that this administration will be represented at all future J Street conferences."

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written by Leonard Moss, November 03, 2009

J Street and people like Noam Chomsky just want fairness. They prefer a socialistic attitude toward death. An equal number of coffins with Stars of David in relation to Arab coffins is all they ask. There is one more thing they want, though. That is for the Jews to get the hell out and move to...well they haven't come up with the answer yet.

Kudos to the editor for the grazing slam at "starry eyed" leftists. Don't forget, they have all the power now in the US. We aren't out of the woods, not by a long shot.