Posted on 09/12/2009 5:10:39 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In July, President Obama met for 45 minutes with leaders of American Jewish organizations. All presidents meet with Israel’s advocates. Obama, however, had taken his time, and powerhouse figures of the Jewish community were grumbling; Obama’s coolness seemed to be of a piece with his willingness to publicly pressure Israel to freeze the growth of its settlements and with what was deemed his excessive solicitude toward the plight of the Palestinians. During the July meeting, held in the Roosevelt Room, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told Obama that “public disharmony between Israel and the U.S. is beneficial to neither” and that differences “should be dealt with directly by the parties.” The president, according to Hoenlein, leaned back in his chair and said: “I disagree. We had eight years of no daylight” — between George W. Bush and successive Israeli governments — “and no progress.”
It is safe to say that at least one participant in the meeting enjoyed this exchange immensely: Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and executive director of J Street, a year-old lobbying group with progressive views on Israel. Some of the mainstream groups vehemently protested the White House decision to invite J Street, which they regard as a marginal organization located well beyond the consensus that they themselves seek to enforce. But J Street shares the Obama administration’s agenda, and the invitation stayed. Ben-Ami didn’t say a word at the meeting — he is aware of J Street’s neophyte status — but afterward he was quoted extensively in the press, which vexed the mainstream groups all over again. J Street does not accept the “public harmony” rule any more than Obama does.
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I don't understand the actions of many American Jews, but conservatives don't support Israel in hope of getting the Jewish vote.
That it is subversive and claims to be something it isn't is something else that makes J Street less than praiseworthy.
p.s. It's also a George Soros creation. I think self hating Jews such as Soros and Stephen Bing (his claim to fame is knocking up Elizabeth Hurley) created it.
...who needs Adolf Hitler?
I am Jewish, and I don't understand them either. Perhaps, this is because there is little American and little Jewish in the views of those American Jews.
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Posted on 09/13/2009 11:14:10 AM PDT by AJKauf
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