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 April 15, 2008
A NEW ISRAEL LOBBY....A new pro-Israel lobby, JStreet, has been started up as a moderate counterweight to the increasingly hawkish AIPAC. Laura Rozen reports:
Well, the journey of a thousand miles etc. etc. Good luck to 'em. God knows AIPAC could use the competition. —Kevin Drum 11:01 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (12)Comments
"..candidates and the folks around them have come to believe that the only way to speak to the Jewish community.." If true, then either it is the profound and crass stupidity of candidates, or an enormous and illegal brainwashing system. This statement cannot be true, it is a lie. Posted by: Matt on April 15, 2008 at 11:11 AM | PERMALINK Hey, Kevin, toss them a link? www.jstreet.org Posted by: gussie on April 15, 2008 at 12:08 PM | PERMALINKThe pro-Israel lobby manages to portray poor-little-Israel as having no friends and needing all the help it can get, while completely - and conveniently - omitting any mention of the fact that Israel is a nuclear power. This is not only supremely dishonest, it is ultimately counter-productive to Israel's security. In the meantime Israel's treatment of Palestinians is beyond shameful. Ben Ami? I think that's what I use to clean my bathtub. Hasn't scratched yet! Posted by: Quaker in a Basement on April 15, 2008 at 12:29 PM | PERMALINK"increasingly hawkish AIPAC?" At what point was AIPAC not hawkish? Posted by: Adam on April 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM | PERMALINKDoesn't Ben Ami realize that the only way to truly support Israel is to defend it's government no matter what it does? And that destruction of every country around it (via the U.S. military, natch) is of the utmost importance? /snark Someone will accuse him of being an anti-Semite in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... Posted by: Mark D on April 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM | PERMALINKThe concept that it is in Israel’s interest to live in a stable more moderate neighborhood just doesn’t seem to get much traction. Actions ranging from the assassinations of moderate west bank Arab mayors following the 6 Day War up to the destabilization of Lebanon and the undermining of Fatah suggest a new definition for chutzpa: when a country destroys its moderate neighbors, and then announces it deserves sympathy in the court of world opinion on the grounds it is surrounded by radicals. Posted by: fafner1 on April 15, 2008 at 1:42 PM | PERMALINK"God knows AIPAC could use the competition." Has God been known to recommend such lobbies? Posted by: Hedley Lamarr on April 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM | PERMALINKI think we need to get rid of ALL lobbies, put our government back on track. Posted by: Jet on April 15, 2008 at 2:06 PM | PERMALINKI wish them the best of luck and hope they can blunt the influence of AIPAC. But why did they choose JStreet as their name? Is it because they plan to have more of a virtual presence (there's not an actual J Street in DC) or does it stand for Jewish? just curious. Posted by: ren on April 15, 2008 at 2:54 PM | PERMALINKJust eleven comments on this post and 185 on Bittergate. Good thing you're not beholden to the commercial imperatives of the MSM. Or are you...? Posted by: Jeff Alworth on April 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM | PERMALINKPost a comment
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