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.
