Netanyahu is said to be meeting with Jewish organizations later today, but I'm told that none of the American Jewish peace groups was invited.
Apparently Netanyahu feels that he does not have to talk to the Jewish left in the U.S., especially since the Israel Policy Forum, one of the groups, ran an ad in the Times last week that dissed the Prime Minister. And in Israel, Netanyahu doesn't think he needs to talk to the opposition; he's got numbers.
Well the U.S. doesn't work like Israel. The American Jewish community right now is split, and if Netanyahu disses liberal Jews, with a meeting spanning AIPAC to the Conference of Presidents, and leaving out IPF, Peace Now, and J Street, it only worsens the split in the Jewish community–and potentially gives Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel cover within the Jewish community to have an aggressive push on the two-state solution.
It is a blunder on Netanyahu's part, and shows how out of touch he is with the American mood.
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