Comments on: Attack dog on J Street is– no surprise– a colonist on West Bank!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:12:30 +0000

thanks for all you are doing. Thanks for working so hard for justice

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:36:18 +0000

Ohmigosh! Something must be wrong with Witty’s browser! Because he is completely absent from this discussion too. Fancy that.

By: syvanen

syvanen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:24:46 +0000

The importance of J Street is the debate they have opened. What specific prescriptions they may have for a two state solution is secondary. The people I know going to the conference next week are very progressive and much more critical of Israel (in private) then anything J Street has said. They see this an opportunity to make a public statement critical of Israel, but under some political cover. Don’t let your dislike of anything to do with Israel lead you to miss this opportunity for opening a debate in the main political arenas on the ME that has been absent for decades.

By: former coMMenter

former coMMenter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:46:05 +0000

On the contrary, the very name is a play-on-words suggesting an intimate familiarity with American pay-to-play “democracy.” What’s J Street’s end-game, U.S. congressmen taking junkets to Israel and adding a line about a Palestinian state to their speeches? Many already do. So what?

By: former coMMenter

former coMMenter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:43:56 +0000

Nice one, Taxi.

But we’re not talking about Israelis. We’re talking about American Zionists. What’s the difference there–one side feels the need to pay lip service to a future (always future, and clearly inviable) Palestinian state?

As much as Jews are helping to make the debate over Zionism possible in the U.S., J Street seems to me like an obvious attempt to ambush the dialogue with a slightly reformed, but no less reverent, devotion to ethnocratic Israel.

By: Taxi

Taxi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:48:46 +0000

A Palestinian will tell you that the only difference between the Israeli left and right, is that the left prefer their prison cells decorated with pictures of bucolic cows and clowns with daisies in their hats.

By: potsherd

potsherd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:08:50 +0000

I don’t think J Street yet knows what it is, and certainly not what it is becoming.

By: former coMMenter

former coMMenter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:38:55 +0000

Is J Street anything other than an attempt to repackage Zionism as a modern, 21st century, humane racism?

By: potsherd

potsherd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:35:34 +0000

I wonder that Israel apologists don’t feel more shame that they are spouting the smears spread by someone called “the weasel.”

If a cause can only be defended by smears, lies, innuendo, character assassination and wrecking reputations and careers, doesn’t it ever occur to the defenders that perhaps there is something wrong with that cause?