By Neve GordonOctober 1, 2013
In the 2012 elections, J Street, the relatively new
pro-Israel lobby whose stated purpose is to promote a progressive peace agenda
in the Middle East, says its PAC disbursed more than $1.8 million to candidates
from 26 states, thus helping eight Senate and 63 House hopefuls win their
races. Among the winners are the chairs and ranking members of five committees,
including the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Armed
Services Committee, as well as chairs and ranking members of more
than 30 subcommittees.
Within a mere five years of its establishment, J Street
has gone a long way toward fulfilling its initial goal of becoming an
alternative voice to the powerful, hawkish American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, which reportedly has 12 full-time lobbyists and spends nearly $3
million annually on its efforts. At its annual conference, which ends today, J
Street expects about 3,000 attendees — AIPAC's drew 13,000. Still, the
fledgling organization has succeeded in making room for welcome dissent within
mainstream political debates about Israel, and it has begun to redefine what it
means to be "pro-Israel" on Capitol Hill…..To Read More…..
My Take –I posted this article so that I could say
this -This man is a blithering idiot!
The Irish example is fallacious because
although their conflict is foundationally religious, they’re both Christians
and have no religious imperative to murder each other. Islamists in Israel will
never forgo the need to murder Jews because it is a religious imperative. That shouldn’t have to be explained any
Jew, Israeli or any sane person who has paid the least amount of attention as
to what is happening now and what has been happening in the Mideast forever.
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