Related: Israel Dumps on Delahunt
A Zionist, by any other address, is still....
"Delahunt’s journey to Mideast upended; Canceled sessions stir debate among advocates for Israel" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | February 27, 2010
WASHINGTON - At first, the trip went smoothly: Five US congressmen, led by William Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat, drank tea last week with the king of Jordan, ate breakfast with an Israeli settlers’ group, and lunched with Palestinian officials, encouraging all sides to move toward peace.
But then controversy erupted: Delahunt woke to a headline in Israel’s largest newspaper stating that the Israeli Foreign Ministry was “boycotting’’ his delegation and that some meetings Delahunt hoped to have would not take place. The reason, according to the newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, was that the trip had been sponsored by J Street, a liberal Jewish group that is often critical of Israeli government policies.
Yup, you either walk in lock-step or you are considered an enemy of Israel.
The diplomatic imbroglio, which Israeli officials have portrayed as exaggerated by the press, has helped spark a vigorous debate both in Israel and the United States over whether Israel is alienating allies by responding too fiercely to criticism and perceived slights.
Whatever.
CANNIBALIZE yourselves, I no longer care.
It has also added fuel to an ongoing debate among American Jews over what it means to be “pro-Israel’’ and how vocal they should be in pushing the Jewish state to make concessions in negotiations with Palestinians over peace.
It means SUPPORTING a LYING, LAND-STEALING, MASS-MURDERING, GENOCIDAL WAR-CRIMINAL STATE is what it means!
“This is a moment when I think American politicians need to help Israel help itself,’’ said Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of J Street. “For America’s sake, as well as Israel’s sake, we have got to end this conflict.’’
What, they DON'T GET ENOUGH of our TAX LOOT!?
For decades, many American Jewish groups - including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a long-established and influential lobby - have been reluctant to second-guess the policies of Israel’s elected government.
AIPAC IS the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT!
NOT REQUIRED to REGISTER as a FOREIGN LOBBYIST, though!
When they disagree with Israel, “they do it behind closed doors,’’ said Martin Solomon, Boston-area blogger and businessman who writes the Israel-oriented blog Solomonia. “They don’t want to give ammunition to people who mean to do real harm to the state.’’
So "J Street" is nothing but ZIONISM-LITE because of the BAD P.R. and UGLY ISRAELI FACE we have ALL SEEN now that the MASK is OFF!!!!
Two years ago, J Street was formed to lobby for active US involvement in peace efforts, even if it means taking positions at odds with the Israeli government. J Street states that taking steps toward peace is in Israel’s long-term interests, even if the government does not support them now. The group backed President Obama’s call for an end to settlement activity on land it hopes will become a Palestinian state. It also opposes military action against Iran at this time.
Buoyed by the liberal demographic that elected Obama, the group has grown from a little-known office with a staff of six to a nationwide organization with more than 30 employees, including six full-time lobbyists. In 2008, it gave $600,000 to congressional candidates. This year, it hopes to give away $1 million.
Yeah, everyone in the world knows Jews have bought the U.S Congress.
That's why we are fighting their wars for them and sending them our tax loot while Americans suffer and starve.
When J Street was newly formed, it had difficulty attracting attention from Congress. But it found a receptive ear in Delahunt, who has consistently voted for military aid to Israel, but at the same time pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state.
Lip service is easily overlooked when you vote weapons for Israel.
Delahunt, who once helped organize the first Irish-Jewish Seder in Boston, agreed to lead J Street’s first delegation to the Middle East, a crucial milestone that showed the liberal lobby is being taken seriously in Washington.
I'm glad the tool is leaving then.
J Street’s views have found fertile ground in Massachusetts. Two weeks ago, about 260 people attended the launch of J Street Boston at the Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline. Boston was home to one of the largest chapters of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, a Jewish peace group, which dissolved to join J Street’s efforts. Alan Solomont, a Democratic fund-raiser who headed the Boston Jewish Federation before becoming ambassador to Spain, helped found J Street. Students at Harvard, Brandeis, and Tufts have started university chapters.
But the group has sparked questions over whether American Jews, who voted overwhelmingly for Obama, should push Israel to accept risks as they bargain with Palestinian leaders.
“If you are not living in Israel, if you are not serving in the army . . . is that a morally tenable posture to take?’’ said Robert Leikind, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Boston office.
And if you are not, well, GO JOIN UP, asshole!!!!!!!!!!!
Otherwise, SHADDUP, right?
Israeli voters appear to be more skeptical about the prospects for peace. Last year, they supported the Gaza war and elected a hawkish government that includes Avigdor Lieberman, a far-right politician who became foreign minister and who would not meet Delahunt.
Yes, THAT is why I have NO TOLERANCE for ISRAEL anymore!
Their STINKING TERRORIST POPULATION APPROVES of WAR CRIMES and WAR CRIMINALS!!!
The best thing that could happen to this world is for Israel to just go away.
According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Lieberman and his deputy, Danny Ayalon, a former ambassador to Washington, refused meetings with the US congressmen as long as members of J Street and Churches for Middle East Peace, the other trip co-sponsor, were present, though it is not unusual for the sponsors to attend such meetings.
The Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the congressmen were welcome, but that it “regrets the attempt to impose who will be present in the meetings, which is unacceptable in diplomatic life.’’
“We all took umbrage,’’ said Delahunt, who is seeking a clarification from the Israeli government. “We believe this is an inappropriate way to treat the elected representatives of Israel’s closest ally.’’
Hey, they CRAP in OUR FACES all the TIME!
They JUST DID IT to Biden and they used to do it to Bush administration officials all the time!!
Delahunt said he saw the meetings that did not take place as “the product of a pattern of a behavior by the deputy foreign minister,’’ not a position taken by the Israeli government. Delahunt was able to meet with Israeli officials who do not work for the foreign ministry.
“I think it is fair to say that their foreign minister and the deputy foreign minister really represent the far right within the political spectrum,’’ he said.
And THAT is who is LEADING the GOVERNMENT!!
Delahunt referred to a series of recent diplomatic rows involving the foreign ministry. Last month, after a Turkish private television channel aired a fictional show that portrayed Israeli soldiers as ruthless killers, Ayalon held a televised meeting in which he sat Turkey’s ambassador on a low chair in a deliberate display of disrespect. (Ayalon apologized after Turkey threatened to downgrade diplomatic ties.)
Also see: Israel Says Its Sorry
Last year, after a leading Swedish daily published a report that said Israeli soldiers had harvested organs from a Palestinian prisoner, Ayalon demanded that Sweden condemn the article in an episode that raised tension between the two countries.
Related: Israel Admits Organgate
Yeah, you NEVER HEAR about ORGANGATE or the TRIAL anymore, do you, readers?
FLASHBACK:
"Huge N.J. corruption case trial set to open" by Associated Press | January 25, 2010
NEWARK - The first trial in New Jersey’s largest-ever corruption investigation is set to begin in a federal courthouse in Newark this week.
Oh, now it is SIMPLY a CORRUPTION TRIAL, huh?
I'm surprised it even got a brief.
Related:
One-Day Wonder: Israel's Organ Harvesting Operation
Boston Globe Can't See the New Jersey Shore
Boston Globe Censorship: Cutting Out a Kidney
Well, I guess not really, huh?
The public finally will get to see Solomon Dwek in action: a government cooperator who secretly recorded hours of meetings at restaurants, diners, and parking lots over two years, showing religious leaders, politicians, and municipal employees in various states of alleged wrongdoing.
It has been six months since the mammoth corruption inquiry resulted in 44 arrests. The dramatic July 23 takedown included early-morning raids from synagogues to city halls and allegations of bribes distributed in cash-stuffed cereal boxes. Prosecutors say the money-laundering operations were so large they were referred to as laundromats.
It also produced one of the more memorable perp walks in New Jersey’s history: Elderly rabbis in long black coats, sweat-suited municipal employees, and assorted bleary-eyed elected officials paraded in handcuffs off a fleet of buses for processing at FBI headquarters.
And it just as quickly faded from the MSM memory, notice that?
Among the defendants: Three mayors, two state assemblymen, and other public officials charged with corruption, prominent rabbis from Brooklyn and Deal, N.J. charged with money laundering, and in one case, a man charged with brokering the sale of a human kidney.
Like an alcoholic always says, "I just had one."
Ten have pleaded guilty, and the rest are awaiting trial. But the man everyone wants to hear is Dwek, the cooperating witness and son of a prominent rabbi that the US government is hanging almost its entire case on.
So reports the concealing Zionist MSM, anyhow.
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Have seen nor heard NOTHING SINCE (and yet every day we are fed false-flag frame-ups and patsy poop by the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist AmeriKan MSM).
In the fall, Ayalon sharply criticized Nadav Tamir, Israel’s consul general in Boston, after he sent a memo warning that Israel’s policies were alienating American Jews. The memo was leaked, and Tamir was briefly recalled to Jerusalem to explain.
Related: Zionists Can't Handle the Truth
A spokesman in Israel’s embassy in Washington, Jonathan Peled, said the incidents are unrelated. He said the Israeli Embassy “will be happy’’ to arrange a meeting with Delahunt, as is customary when members of Congress return from Israel.
“We have no differences with congressman Delahunt,’’ he said. “We are not responsible for the hype in the media or for any misunderstandings.’’
But Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations, said he was “shocked that members of the US Congress were given a hard time by the Israeli foreign ministry, given how much American taxpayer money, political, and diplomatic support has been given to Israel over the years.’’
I'm not because PSYCHOPATHS do not have consciences!
I'm surprised at the globalist fool for being so naive.
Martin Indyk, former US ambassador to Israel, said: “The more they do things to try to snuff out J Street, the more they raise its profile. . . . When it rises to the level of offending congressmen who are supportive of Israel, they should reconsider their approach.’’
Can we hear from a non-Zionist source, please?
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More who cares:
WHETHER IT was a major diplomatic slight or a minor one overblown by media coverage, what happened to Representative William Delahunt in a congressional trip to Israel last month was telling.
Because the trip was sponsored by J Street, a “pro-Israel, pro-peace’’ organization that has criticized the Israeli government, Israel’s minister of foreign affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, and his deputy, Danny Ayalon, refused to meet with the five congressmen as long as J Street and another pro-peace sponsor was present. The message was clear: Your traveling companions have criticized us, so we won’t sit with you unless you keep them away from the table.
Israel’s government certainly has the right to choose who it talks to. But its actions show it to be a step behind the changing composition and attitudes of American Jewry. At a time when many American Jews are feeling fewer compunctions about criticizing Israel, and are often less concerned with external threats posed by Iran and Israel’s other enemies than the demographic time bomb it faces as its Palestinian population expands, what it means to be “pro-Israel’’ is changing, particularly among younger Jews.
I proudly consider myself anti-Israel now.
Didn't always think that way; however, I will never be "pro"- WAR CRIMINAL STATE!
There are still plenty of young American Jews who take pride in wholeheartedly supporting the Israeli government. But this view isn’t nearly as dominant as it once was, and research by Steven M. Cohen of Hebrew Union College helps show why. Cohen found that younger Jewish professional and religious leaders tend to be less likely to see Israel as threatened by its neighbors, and therefore less worried about Israel’s security.
The idea that being an American Jew doesn’t necessitate lockstep support for Israel, and that Israel is strong enough to withstand criticism from the outside world, were on full display last week at Harvard’s Hillel House, which hosted a talk by J Street’s head, Jeremy Ben-Ami.
In an interview before the event, Ben-Ami talked about the changing experience of being an American Jew.
“If you’ve had personal experience - if not you [then] at least your parents - with the destruction of your people, you’re more likely to take it as a possibility that it could happen again,’’ he said. “If you have grown up here in complete comfort and safety and no one you know in an immediate sense has been through that, I do think [you’re] going to have a very fundamental[ly] different view, a different take, on how you view the Iran threat.’’
They are all the same.
(Blog editor just shaking his head. So much for "debate.")
This different, less fearful view of things came through clearly in some of the young members of the audience.
For instance, when asked about the prospect of Iran destroying Israel, Harvard Divinity School student Kenan Jaffe, 26, said he thought it was “unlikely.’’
Unless Israel attacks, then bye-bye, Iz-ray-HELL!!!!!!
“I also don’t think it’s directly related to the Palestinian question,’’ he said, “and it is only to the extent that if Israel comes to a final status solution with the Palestinians, Iran will have nothing to say about Israel and no reason to make threats against it.’’
Umm, Iran isn't making any threats. Please stop proceeding on lies.
This is a far cry from the notion of a bloodthirsty, implacable Iran fueled only by hatred for Israel - a story we hear quite often from groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
And stories we read in NEWSPAPERS like THIS ONE!
And while most members of the audience probably weren’t as sanguine about Iran as Jaffe, fear of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasn’t, for the most part, what had brought them to Cambridge on a rainy February evening.
Rather, they were worried about the grim prospects that face Israel if it can’t make peace with the Palestinians. Given the region’s demographic patterns, absent a two-state solution, Israel will soon have to choose between being a Jewish state and a democratic one.
Related: Memory Hole: Future Vision of Israel
Yes, that is the ONLY FUTURE I SEE!!!!
While J Street does strongly oppose the possibility of Iran getting nuclear weapons, the demographic crisis, not an attack from Iran, is the greatest threat facing Israel, said Ben-Ami.
And they are NOT BUILDING a BOMB, dammit!!!!
And we are NOT FALLING for ANOTHER FALSE FLAG, either, so PUT THAT THOUGHT RIGHT OUT YOUR MIND, Israel!
He’s not alone in thinking so, if the popularity and early clout of his organization, which is just two years old, is any indication. And regardless of one’s political affiliation, this shift is going to have huge ramifications for the future of US-Israeli relations. If Israel wants to continue turning its back on those who criticize it, it may soon find itself with little to say to an increasingly large, vocal segment of American Jews.
I'm waiting.
How long is this going to take because we do not have much time?
