Just Foreign Policy is an interesting group. Leftleaning, post-Iraq. Tom Hayden's on the board, so is Julian Bond. So are some economic-justice types. Former congressman Tom Andrews of Win Without War. And these good folks are organizing a letter-writing campaign to Jim Lehrer to urge him to ask the candidates at the presidential debate on foreign policy about the Israeli settlements:
Barack Obama and John McCain about their plans to implement U.S. policy
of opposition to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied
Palestinian territories, which the U.S. government has long
acknowledged is a key stumbling block to peace between Israelis and
Palestinians."
Two other groups behind the letter are the Jewish Voice for Peace out of Oakland and Council on American Islamic Relations. Which hosted Walt and Mearsheimer a year back. This is progress. It's amazing that McCain's retrograde policy re Israeli expansion has not become a huge issue. Journalists can't do it. Obama can't do it. They're all compromised. Maybe the fledgling realist left can.
