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Title: J Street co founder if Israel needs to defend itself Israel isn't a good idea
Post by: mord on March 15, 2011, 03:28:51 PM

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/03/j-street-co-founder-maybe-israel-isnt.html   







J-Street co-founder: Maybe Israel isn't a good idea if Arabs reject it
From Lori Lowenthal Marcus at The American Thinker:

    "Maybe, if this collective Jewish presence" -- that is, the Jewish State in the Middle East -- "can only survive by the sword, then Israel really ain't a good idea." So said Daniel Levy, one of J Street's founders, at the 2011 J Street Conference. You can hear him, and the lack of any objection from even one of the 2000-strong audience, here, at 1:26:15 on the J Street Conference video, on J Street's own website.

    Are we there yet? Is this clear statement by one of J Street's founders -- that if the Arabs will force Israel to defend herself, then the Jews should abandon the Middle East -- enough to prove that J Street is not "pro-Israel" at all? Is this confession enough to enable (or force) people to see that it is this belief: that the Jews are simply wrong to defend themselves ever, including against Gazan terrorism or a nuclear Iran, that constitutes the foundation of J Street?

I clipped the quote itself from the much longer video: 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bKVE9PkayM

Title: Re: J Street co founder if Israel needs to defend itself Israel isn't a good idea
Post by: TheCoon on March 15, 2011, 04:03:20 PM

I would simply ask these JStreet folks what does being Jewish mean to them if they deny everything that is Judaism.

Title: Re: J Street co founder if Israel needs to defend itself Israel isn't a good idea
Post by: muman613 on March 15, 2011, 04:41:29 PM

The Jewish people are being neglected by virtually every so-called Jewish institution there is... I now have absolutely ZERO respect for JCC {Jewish Community Center} which has joined the BDS movement against Israel.

Title: Re: J Street co founder if Israel needs to defend itself Israel isn't a good idea
Post by: Meerkat on March 15, 2011, 04:47:13 PM

Yimach shmam v'zechram.