`J Street` Begins Right Where It Should, By Attacking Neocons

[HorseArcher]

I've long contended that a war between the neocons and the progressives inside the Jewish community is necessary for American Jewry to recover from Iraq--to understand the ways that neoconservative support for Israel led to planning what (predictably) turned out to be the greatest foreign policy debacle of the last generation. Jews owe this soul-searching to America, a country that has given us such freedom, and where the neocons successfully created what Jacob Heilbrunn called "a parallel establishment."

Well, the leaders of J Street, the new lobby, have specifically attacked neoconservative Jews in announcing the new lobby.

For too long, the primary ... voices policy makers and politicians have heard regarding American policy toward Israel and the Middle East have been those of a vocal minority at the far-right of American society. ... Neoconservative, right-wing Jewish leaders and radical Christian Zionists have turned their definition of 'pro-Israel' into a driving force in the American political process.

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J Street Project Launches to Be the “True” Pro-Israel Lobby

Earlier this week, to much media roll out (NPR, Wash Post etcetera) came the J Street Project.

Self described as "the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement which seeks to change the direction of American policy in the Middle East and to broaden the public and policy debate in the U.S. about the Middle East. We support strong American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts peacefully and diplomatically..."

http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/39447

Jewish Liberals Launch Counterweight to AIPAC

At last, at long last. There will be a hard money lobby in Washington that represents progressives on Israel/Palestine issues, that lobbies for Israeli/Palestinian peace, that acts as a counterweight to AIPAC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert...o_b_97221.html

[Hansa]

Join J-Street and support the terrorists.

On a more serious note, the policies of J-Street seems at this first glance to be very similar to the Western-European approach to the conflict. Though the US is really the only state Israel listens to any US-EU cooperation can't be bad, and if this hepls present both sides of the story to Americans it can't be bad.

[Каие]

Go Jewish Liberals!!

[Calvin]

Are you seriously telling me that the American government has been against a negotiated and peaceful conclusion to the Israeli / Arab conflict? Are they insane?

[HorseArcher]

Are you seriously telling me that the American government has been against a negotiated and peaceful conclusion to the Israeli / Arab conflict? Are they insane?

I think it's more have to do with the method and ideology of how, not what.

[Каие]

Well they don't seem to be reinforcing the Israeli promise. Abbas hasn't bombed Israel but Israel has continued to bulldoze houses and build settlements the requirements of entering the talks was to cease.

[Calvin]

Could you explain that a bit more please? I'm kind of slow tonight.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Even if everyamerican jew said they wanted the US to not support israel it still would, you see theres this much larger group that thinks israel is always right its called Conservative Evangelicals.

[Каие]

But i hope Jews start to judge Israel on its actions as opposed to judging it because its Jewish, its the same mistake Muslims made and look now.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Yeah Saudi Arabia.

[Каие]

You got it, not just them but the Taliban too.
Muslims support them just because they are Muslims, rather than condemn them because of their evil acts, the fact that they are Muslim gets in the way for dome ed up reason.