Oh ? Hmmm..let's see....wow ... there's a lot ...
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.israel,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: A new thread dedicated to Richard Ratner of Somerville,
Mass.
about the crisis America faces due to the Israel Lobby Options
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 14:37:22 -0700 (PDT)
“J STREET, a Jewish lobbying group that aims to push for a more
moderate
stance on Middle East issues.”
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: A new Jewish anti-AIPAC lobby
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:09:52 -0700 (PDT
“J STREET, aims to break the monopoly of opinion on US Middle
Eastern policy built up by established groups such as the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac)”
“J STREET is the first to be devoted to lobbying members of
Congress and also to donate to their political campaigns.”
“J STREET has commissioned a survey of American Jewish opinion,
which found that 50 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement
"Israel can only achieve real security through peace agreements"
“With Senator Barack Obama in the White House, J STREET can make
a contribution towards breaking the deadlock in the Middle East
that...has been obstructed by Aipac and others.”
From: HHW <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:04:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From Slate's Glenn Greenwald: Increasing even-handedness in
the Middle East
“J STREET...is well on its way to ending the monopoly that
right-wing groups have long wielded in the U.S...”
“J STREET has launched a project praising the Simon/60 Minutes
report, and has organized a letter-writing campaign to CBS in support
of that segment.”
“You can read about J STREET's position here, and participate
in their letter-writing campaign to CBS...”
“Obama's "choice of an envoy to the Middle East, George
Mitchell, is absolutely superb...” J STREET's Executive Director,
Jeremy Ben-Ami, "enthusiastically" praised the selection of
Mitchell..”
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:05:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Why Can't Miss Ratner Read?
“Jonathan Chait is in a lather about J STREET”
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:40:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Who's Afraid of Robert Malley?
“Robert Malley, a former Middle East policy consultant for Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.), serves on J STREET's advisory council.”
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:49:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Join J STREET; sign up today!
http://www.jstreet.org/campaigns/a-new-pro-peace-pro-israel-political...
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: What HHW, and other "humanitarians" so very concerned
about the plight of the poor arab rocket-launchers and suicide bombers
don't give a damn about. The reason is very clear.
“Embrace J STREET, with which Dan Levy is involved; they are
doing good work”
From: HHW <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: J STREET Video on Avigdor Lieberman---an AMERICAN VOICE
From: "iconoclastexpat1686 @
yahoo.com" <
coaste...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Israel Cries Wolf (again, and again, and again...
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:44:17 -0700 (PDT)
“It has not been promoting, for example, the J STREET
agenda.”
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Aside
- This H post is simply funny:
From: "
iconoclastexpat1686...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Israel Cries Wolf (again, and again, and again, and
“Journalism is a profession with a Code of Ethics. You can find
the
rules on the web.”
“I'm pro-Israel. The policies I represent just aren't
recognized as such in conventional wisdom. That's because the
discourse has been so stupidly distorted. It doesn't reflect reality.”
WHAT doesn't reflect reality? lol
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Back to H's “not following J STREET”
From: "iconoclast @
yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Ignorant posting by Cramer again (was: Har Homa's land)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
“The ultimate crisis of AIPAC is being acted-out as we speak.
See the J STREET post I put up a little earlier about what's going on
in Congress.”
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: J Steet Congratulates Israel on its 61st Anniversary
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 09:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
“J STREET Marks Israeli Independence Day”
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:41:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Whatever Bibi Wants, Bibi Gets.
“So far as I can see, only J STREET, has written about it.”
From: "iconoclast @
yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: J STREET on the Obama Cairo Speech is an antidote to Israeli,
racist, right-wing drunks
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:12:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "iconoclast @
yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com
Subject: James Traub on the Israel lobby, old and new
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:19:43 -0700 (PDT)
“... J STREET, a year-old lobbying group with progressive
views on Israel...
“...mainstream groups vehemently protested the White House
decision to invite J STREET...
“ J STREET shares the Obama administration’s agenda.”
“...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.”
“There appears to be an appetite for J STREET’s approach.
Over the last year, J STREET’s budget has doubled...J STREET is still
as much an Internet presence, launching volleys of e-mail
messages ...J STREET knows exactly where it stands...J STREET is wide
open to the public.”
“Cuban-American opinion is no longer in thrall to the older
generation — precisely J STREET’s goal in regard to the Middle East.”
“J STREET PAC sent out a questionnaire to Congressional
candidates...seeking their views on U.S. engagement with the Middle
East.”
“Ben-Ami fired off a fund-raising appeal to the J STREET
netroots.”
“Edwards...attracted $30,000 via J STREET PAC’s appeal in
three or four days.”
“J STREET occupies fairly traditional liberal
territory...well to the left of the mainstream groups.”
“J STREET takes the cautious view that while we should not
speak directly with officials, we should engage through
intermediaries...”
“J STREET maintains that most American Jews share its views
on the Middle East.”
“J STREET sought to answer this question by commissioning an
extensive poll of Jewish opinion on Middle East issues.”
“J STREET specializes in mounting campaigns that may appeal
to the 92 percent who care about other causes more than they do about
Israel.”
“J STREET says that more than 25,000 people signed it in 24
hours...J STREET generated a similar response when it sent out a
bulletin warning of legislation that could result in a blockade of
Iran”
“The most controversial and significant of J STREET’s
campaigns was the one most directly tied to Israel’s security. When
Israeli fighter planes first hit Gaza on Dec. 27, J STREET issued a
press release...calling for “immediate, strong diplomatic
intervention”
“J STREET’s campaigns director, Isaac Luria, wrote that
“while there is nothing ‘right’ in raining rockets on Israeli families
or dispatching suicide bombers, there is nothing ‘right’ in punishing
a million and a half already-suffering Gazans”
“J STREET’s stand cemented its position on the left side of
the spectrum;”
“J STREET missed the overwhelming support from the American
Jewish community for the war in Gaza.”
“...J STREET’s prospects....”
“J STREET’s most difficult challenge may be to raise the
profile of what Ben-Ami calls the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” position on
Capitol Hill. In late January, J STREET helped circulate a resolution
by Representative Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts, praising the
administration for the
appointment of George Mitchell”
“J STREET responded several days later with a letter calling
for active American engagement ...in helping to create effective
governance in the Palestinian territories.”
“Even J STREET’s staunch friends on the Hill acknowledge the
potential costs of their position.”
“...the J STREET letter calling for deeper American engagement
in the peace process.”
“J STREET, in short, will not lack for acreage to till.”
“J Street’s new corps of lobbyists will soon be fanning out
into the wilds of Congress”
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Shlomo Sand predicts the Jewish past and pastes the Zionists
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:01:06 -0800 (PST)
“...the neoconservative Weekly Standard’s disgusting pursuit
of J STREET.”
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:22:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: From perhaps the most intelligently written and managed blog
on the perpetual crisis in Palestine
“The first three are from the recent J STREET conference...”
“Video 5 from J STREET ...”
“Also at J STREET, ...”
“Jonathan Chait of the New Republic warned J STREET..”
From: "iconoclast @
yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: Invite Skunks to the Garden Party?
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:00:19 -0800 (PST)
“AIPAC faces a huge threat from J STREET. It would with one blow
deflect J STREET, if not coopt J STREET's very important message.
“...a progressive Jewish organization, J STREET, was established
several months ago...”
From: Cazador <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:52:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: PRESSIDENT??? Re: Pressident Carter Answers Dershowitz's
Libel before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Knessett on June 15,
2009
“Maybe J STREET will start opening store-front Zionist
Detoxification Centers for such as you.”
From: "iconoclast @
yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: J STREET's Open Letter: Interfering with the Right Wing
American
interference with Israeli democracy
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:19:26 -0800 (PST)
“Ben-Ami, J STREET's Executive Director, will go to show them
that American Jews who love and care about Israel's vibrant democracy
stand with them as they
exercise their basic democratic rights and protest Palestinian home
evictions”
From: Hunter Watson <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Dual loyalties and PC: Juan Cole in high dudgeon followed by
a Sniegowski corrective
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:01:39 -0800 (PST)
“The establishment of a liberal Jewish lobby, J STREET, which
supports a
two-state solution (Israel and Palestine side by side), is a
manifestation of the increasing unease of progessive Jewish Americans
with the policies and aggressive wars of rightwing Israeli
governments.”
“...the Likud government has snubbed a delegation of US
Congress members to Israel who support J STREET.”
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Why constructive critics of Israel may not permit
themselves to
be intimidated
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:59:14 -0800 (PST)
“Until I came here I never had a bad experience with a Jew nor
was any Jew my enemy. But as Americans I expect them to help us
recapture our sovereign foreign policy. Some have now awakened. We
have the J STREET comrades and many individuals and a few other
groups”
[Yeah, right.]
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: American Jews determine their political beliefs based on what
is best for Israel rather than the U.S. -- exactly the "dual loyalty"
assumption that, when made by others, this very same faction brands as
anti-Semitic.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
“J STREET called the administration's anger towards Israel both
"understandable and appropriate"
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: And Finally Satloff of Winep is Demolished
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:38:03 -0700 (PDT)
“WINEP is the voice of AIPAC. Satloff is a predictable neocon.
Just label these people correctly. Put Satloff on, but up opposite
Jeremy Ben Ami of J STREET (not the State Department).”
From: "
iconocl...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: A little knowledge of who we are would go a long way ...
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:38:21 -0700 (PDT)
“Alan Dershowitz angrily called on J STREET to join AIPAC”
“I was glad to see J STREET issue support for Obama when he
confronted settlements;”
“I seem to remember J STREET being far more critical of
settlements...”
From: "
pwdapain...@yahoo.com" <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Pushing beyond the Caterpillar Decision
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:05:42 -0700 (PDT)
“Note that J STREET didn't make the Forward's roster.”
“Oh and speaking of the throwdown between JVP and J STREET over
boycott”
“Peratis is a board member of J STREET. Kulick is affiliated
with J STREET”
From: "
pwdapain...@yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: What do most of "the Jews" actually represent politically?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:08:26 -0700 (PDT)
“The political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans Sign
up for J Street, get updates and make your voice heard”
“...effort to make J STREET's support for her a campaign
issue.”
From: "iconoclast @
yahoo.com" <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: What do most of "the Jews" actually represent
politically?
“The Ceren spat with J STREET might make for an interesting
thread but it's got ut it's got nothing to do with J STREET's analysis
of the views of America's Jews as expressed to pollsters after they
voted in the recent election. The latter is what my thread is about.”
From: coaster132000 <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:17:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: New voice in the Senate
“Jewish lobby J STREET issued a statement in response to
Paul's comments saying it was “alarmed” by his suggestion.”
From: coaster132000 <
coaster132...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:33:54 -0800 (PST)
Subject: They've figured it out: go right at Netanyahu
"My question to J STREET and to Israel, do you want to be ten
days too late, do you want to be like these dictators...”
“J STREET's answer would seem to be what my answer is, go
after the lobby and the American Jewish community because that's where
the power is. Though the agenda here is clearly a two-state solution.
I'll keep you posted.”
From: coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: Getting the Language Right at J STREET
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:02:30 -0800 (PST)
From: coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Subject: The J STREET Scam
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:10:24 -0800 (PST)
From: HHW <coaster132000 @
yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:10:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Israel's problem is the settlements, not J STREET
And so on. More?
>>>Should't J STREET be judged by its attitude toward settlement
>>>negotiations?
No.
>>There is no such thing as a 'settlement' in Israel. Judea & Samaria is no
>>more a 'settlement' than Manchester is an 'English settlement'.
>>Y.
>>--
>>Yitzhak Isaac Goldstein
>> 'Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils'
>> (Louis Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869))
>><
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/>
>You might try explaining your position. Naked assertions don't sell.
Yet H uses them quite often. And no, the statement “Judea & Samaria is
[sic]no more a 'settlement' than Manchester is an 'English
settlement'” is not a “naked assertion”, or a clothed one either. It's
a fact.
Deborah