J Street attacks Sarah Palin
If anyone still needs to ask whose side they're on, you haven't been watching the news. J Street, the J Street rejects Sarah Palin’s comments attacking President Obama’s sensible policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank yesterday during an ABC News interview with Barbara Walters.Whose side are they on? Not Israel's side. The vast majority of Jewish Israelis do not believe that 'settlements' are an 'impediment to peace.' The 'impediment to peace' is the 'Palestinian' refusal to accept a State of Israel of any size in this region. The vast majority of Israelis do not believe that the 'settlement enterprise' is a threat to Israel's future as a Jewish democracy.
Palin’s pandering to her right-wing base comes at the expense of the security of the State of Israel, the lives of those actually living the conflict, and the fundamental American interest in achieving a two-state solution in the near term. Her words reveal a glaring ignorance of damaging facts and a callous disregard of past and present U.S. policy.
For decades, American presidents have held that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are an impediment to peace. They are joined by the majority of Israelis and pro-Israel Americans who view the growing settlement enterprise as a threat to Israel’s very future as a Jewish democracy.
President Obama’s administration continued along that path yesterday, rightly and sensibly expressing concern with unilateral actions on both sides that would preempt the negotiation of final status issues that are necessary to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict.
J Street supports President Obama and Middle East Peace Envoy George Mitchell as they press the parties to begin the hard work of achieving a two-state solution, the only way to secure Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic homeland.
But J Street continues to blindly support President Obumbler. When he is thrown out of office in 2012, will J Street fall into the dustbin of history? I sure hope so.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:09 PM
2 Comments:
Let's keep in mind Gilo is a Jerusalem neighborhood. J-Street should have the courage of its convictions and tell Jews they may not live there or shut up!
J Street do serve a purpose. They can be used as an additional vetting tool. Anyone who they support is suspect, and anyone they bash is a likely ally.
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