Here is a great video on Avigdor Lieberman from J Street. "Stand up for your values," it tells American Jews. Who is standing up? The video notes that David Harris of the American Jewish Committee was upset with Lieberman, but that "some are whitewashing what Lieberman stands for." Then it shows Avigdor shaking hands with Senator Joe Lieberman, with a quote from Joe on Avigdor.
So that's the game. Try and shear off the body of American Jews, call them Gary Ackerman Jews, from the Lieberman Jews. Go for the center-left wing of AIPAC and blow the bridge, to save the peace process. This in itself is progress, inasmuch as three years ago Jews stuck with Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont in Connecticut, by and large.
Peace Now has a statement expressing concern about Lieberman's belligerence. At that statement there is a link to Peace Now's statement of a month back saying that it had expressed its concerns about Lieberman's bigotry to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, of which APN is a member. You will see that the Conference of Presidents has nothing bad to say about Lieberman, while providing a platform to neocons Eli Lake and Elliott Abrams. Isn't it time for Peace Now to quit that organization? J Street will give you cover.
Related posts:
- Daniel Pipes– ‘elated’ by Lieberman
- ‘J Street’ finds a wedge issue to realign Jewish leadership: ‘extremist settlers’
- J Street doesn’t talk about ‘the Jewish people,’ and that drives neocons crazy
- Lieberman rolls out of bed and trashes 2-state solution
- ‘J Street’ finds a wedge issue, AIPAC loses influence
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PW: "…"So that's the game. Try and shear off the body of American Jews, call them Gary Ackerman Jews, from the Lieberman Jews. Go for the center-left wing of AIPAC and blow the bridge, to save the peace process. This in itself is progress, inasmuch as three years ago Jews stuck with Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont in Connecticut, by and large…"
Err this doesn't sound very reassuring.
Especially when Nathan Guttman a reporter from the Jewish Forward says when he covered just 'one' subcommittee foreign affairs hearing:
These guys are our Israel gatekeepers of Congress. Not reassuring at all.
David Duke is generally despised in the USA, relegated to the far outer fringe, despite the fact
the founding white contingent in the USA will be a minority in every state of the Union by 2050. In contrast we have Senator Lieberman with his appropriately first named wife, beating the drums for
Western jihad at every opportunity. A man of both elected parties by mutual consent, in a land with two-party system. Is it wrong to note this, as an average goy American?
You will see that the Conference of Presidents has nothing bad to say about Lieberman, while providing a platform to neocons Eli Lake and Elliott Abrams.
The mention of platforms for neocons reminds me that yesterday I heard an interview on NPR with David Frum, who is now a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he attacked President Obama's international and domestic economic policies. He is yet another neocon lawyer trying to peddle the fiction that his formal credentials imply a shred of competence, in anything. Has NPR become National Proto-fascist Radio? WTF is a thoroughly discredited fool like him getting air time in any creditable venue? The spectrum of political and social values of those who get access to media outlets is stunningly out of synch with those of the rest of the nation and with common sense. Would a scientist, architect, engineer, or economist, whose theories, vociferously advocated over ten or more years and publicly exposed as bald-faced crap, be given a venue to continue spewing the same nonsense? Why didn't they get a critic who actually has the slightest clue what he is talking about? Dr. Paul Krugman, one of America's finest economists and 2008 Nobel Laureate in Economics, would have been a vastly more appropriate choice. I smell something rank wafting out of NPR.
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