The first one is joyful news to me, that dovish Jewish organizations "have increasingly worked in tandem on legislative initiatives with Churches for Middle East Peace -which represents most of the mainline Protestant denominations as well as other Christians- and Arab American organizations, including the American Task Force on Palestine and Arab American Institute." I pray this is true. There is only one way out of the present situation for Americans, and that is to deploy our hard-won lessons of civil rights to Israel/Palestine.
The second is from Victor Kovner, liberal NY stalwart and an adviser to the new lobby. Over breakfast, Kovner told Fleshler:
“Some Members of Congress have felt intimidated and resentful, and have been forced to take positions against their better judgment, out of fear of retribution….” Then this careful attorney, who does not say anything without carefully weighing its impact, uttered something delightfully bold, knowing full well that I would probably use it here and in my forthcoming book: “I would like to restore the First Amendment rights of Jewish Americans and non-Jewish Americans to speak their minds on Israel-Palestine issues, without being subjected to baseless, vicious calumnies.”Lovely. Chuck Hagel said something like this. So did Zbig Brzezinski. So did Barack Obama. Oh wait–not yet.
Related posts:
- Kovner the Juilliard Chairman Should Pay a Price for His Extremist Connections
- As Asian-Americans Soul-Search Over Va.-Tech Shootings, Liberal Jews Must Soul-Search Over Neocons and Iraq
- Americans May Sympathize With Israel, But They Want a More Even-Handed Policy, Say Walt & Mearsheimer
- Further Proof that Americans Are Fed a Naive, Propagandized View of Israel/Palestine
- CFR Heavy Walter Russell Mead Says Americans Love Israel Like Cherry Pie
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