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The Definition of ‘Anti-Israel’
commentary mag ^ | 1/21/11 | Alana Goodman

Posted on 01/21/2011 12:13:53 PM PST by Nachum

Last week, Steve Clemons organized a contingent of foreign-policy officials and commentators to send a letter to President Obama urging the U.S. to support the anti-settlement resolution at the UN.

It included many prominent critics of the Israel — Peter Beinart, Chas Freeman, and Andrew Sullivan, to name just a few.

Based on their well-documented eagerness to condemn Israel whenever possible, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin referred to the group as “Israel-bashers” – prompting an angry response from Clemons and setting off a debate about the meaning of “pro-Israel,” according to Ben Smith:

The group J Street has been waging, and mostly losing, a political fight with more hawkish allies of Israel over the meaning of the term “pro-Israel,” and today another Washington skirmish erupts on the topic. …

(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; definition

1 posted on 01/21/2011 12:13:54 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Sullivan and Beinart - two girly boys if there ever were one! Beinart is dumb and Sulivan is a gay anti-Semite with a strange obsession with Sarah Palin’s womb.


2 posted on 01/21/2011 12:22:46 PM PST by juliej
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

...Steve Clemons... Peter Beinart... Chas Freeman... Andrew Sullivan... J Street...

Thanks Nachum.


3 posted on 01/21/2011 4:41:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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4 posted on 01/21/2011 4:56:42 PM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: Nachum

I can never and probably never will understand Jews being anti-Jew/Israel. Stockholm Syndrome?


5 posted on 01/21/2011 7:02:39 PM PST by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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