Israeli ambassador Dr. Michael Oren wrote a letter praising J Street that was in the press packet at the Israel lobby group’s conference. Here it is. Notice how the United States and Israel are joined at the hip, and how a sense of Jewish peoplehood is the source of Jewish creativity.
Shalom,
The past four and a half years have been a period of profound challenges for both our countries, and yet one of immense accomplishment. Together, the United States and Israel have produced the most advanced multi-layered anti-ballistic system in the world, we’ve greatly expanded our commercial ties, and probed new horizons in science, medicine, and technology. We have worked tirelessly for peace, and have succeeded in restarting direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Together, we are working to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Throughout my term I have been privileged to uphold the principal [sic] of Klal yisrael, the ideal of a Jewish people which can bridge political and religious differences and which remains the source of our creativity and strength. That principal [sic] will continue to guide me always.
L’hitraot in Israel
Dr. Michael B. Oren
The letter puts a cherry on top of a relationship that wasn’t always that great. Oren once feuded with J Street and said, “They claim they’re pro-Israel… They are calling for Israel to be condemned in the Security Council for the settlements and they are condemning some of our best friends on the Hill. So they can call themselves what they like.” Then in 2010 Oren and J Street patched up. Thanks to Mitchell Plitnick.
Together they have rolled back international law and the Geneva conventions. Well done, Israel. Jews of the future will be so grateful.
“the ideal of a Jewish people which can bridge political and religious differences and which remains the source of our creativity and strength. ”
Such Jewish genius and such hope for the future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNDczR78ZhU&feature=related
Creative ways to oppress and brutalise Palestinians. Very impressive, Israel. Wouldn’t it make more sense to focus on diplomacy, perhaps? Or even understanding the history of the so called ancestral homeland – how did the last Sparta manage ?
And isn’t it funny that Jewish unity on Zionism is so fragile that dissent cannot be tolerated ?
RE: ‘Together,’ US and Israel have probed horizons of science, medicine and military technology, Oren says
MY COMMENT: And together, they have eroded the values of The Enlightenment! ! !
“Down, down, down we [the U.S.] go into the deep, dark abyss; hand in hand with Israel.”
EXAMPLES OF ISRAEL AND THE U.S. NEGATING THE VALUES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT:
• “How We Became Israel”, By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, 9/10/12
LINK – http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-we-became-israel/
• “America Adopts the Israel Paradigm”, by Philip Ghiraldi, Antiwar.com, 7/05/12
LINK – http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/07/04/america-adopts-the-israel-paradigm/
• “Report: Israeli model underlies militarization of U.S. police”, By Muriel Kane, Raw Story, 12/04/11
LINK – http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/04/report-israeli-model-underlies-militarization-of-u-s-police/
• “From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American Domestic Security”, By Max Blumenthal, Al-akhbar, 12/02/11
LINK – http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/2178 OR http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29892.htm
• “Homeland Security Made in Israel”, by Philip Giraldi, Antiwar.com, 8/22/13
LINK – http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/08/21/homeland-security-made-in-israel/
• NRA PUSHES PLAN IMPORTED FROM ISRAEL TO PUT POLICE IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS – NRA President’s Report: David Keene on the Push to Protect Our Children [VIDEO, 12:10] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Iy-LVL5dU
• IN THE WAKE OF THE BOSTON BOMBINGS, a “National Security Expert” on
FoxFaux News said that the U.S. is like a 14-year-old teenager going through “security puberty”; and we must demand that our government “get on the Israeli page”! ! !On the Wish List from the Boston Bombings – The Israelization of America [VIDEO, 00:25] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fff8dXQNVdA
• “Two Secretive Israeli Companies Reportedly Bugged The US Telecommunications Grid For The NSA”, By Michael Kelley, Business Insider, 6/07/13
LINK – http://www.businessinsider.com/israelis-bugged-the-us-for-the-nsa-2013-6
• “IDF Unit 8200 Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology”, By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 6/07/13
LINK – http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/06/09/top-secret-iaf-unit-exposed/
• “Meet the Israeli-linked firm that sold Big Brother machines to Mubarak, Qaddafi – and Washington”, by Max Blumenthal, Mondoweiss, 6/15/13
LINK – https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2013/06/machines-qaddafi-washington.html
• “What was the Israeli Involvement in Collecting U.S. Communications Intel for NSA? ~ By Haaretz, The Associated Press and Reuters, informationclearinghouse.info, 6/08/13
LINK – http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35215.htm
• “The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining Of International Law”, by Jeff Halper, mrzine.monthlyreview.org, 02/26/10
LINK – http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/halper260210.html
• “The Trial of Israel’s Campus Critics”, by David Theo Goldberg & Saree Makdisi, Tikkun Magazine, September/October 2009
LINK – http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/sept_oct_09_goldberg_makdisi
• “Brooklyn College’s academic freedom increasingly threatened over Israel event”, by Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk, 2/02/13
LINK – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/02/brooklyn-college-bds-alan-dershowitz
• “Peter ‘Powder Keg’ Beinart is disinvited from gig at Atlanta Jewish book festival”, by Annie Robbins, Mondoweiss, 11/05/12
LINK – https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2012/11/peter-powder-keg-beinart-is-disinvited-from-gig-at-atlanta-jewish-book-festival.html
• ‘Israelis are helping write US laws, fund US campaigns, craft US war policy’, by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, 6/30/12
LINK – https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2012/06/israelis-are-helping-write-us-laws-fund-us-campaigns-craft-us-war-policy.html
• “David Yerushalmi, Islam-Hating White Supremacist Inspires Anti-Sharia Bills Sweeping Tea Party Nation”, by Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam, 3/02/11
LINK – http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/03/02/david-yerushalmi-islam-hating-white-supremacist/
• “Boston airport security program rife with racial profiling has Israeli links”, by Alex Kane, Mondoweiss, 8/14/12
LINK – https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2012/08/boston-airport-security-program-rife-with-racial-profiling-has-israeli-links.html
• “Obama’s kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza”, By Glenn Greenwald, guardian.co.uk, 11/15/12
LINK – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/israel-gaza-obama-assassinations