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Friday, March 27th, 2009

Buy cialis, There has been much ado about the latest J Street poll of American Jews. The most important finding, Maryland MD Md. , Köpa billiga cialis, as noted in the survey analysis, is that "Jews want America to be much more aggressive in its Middle East peace efforts than it is today."

87% of respondents said they supported the United States playing an active role in helping the parties resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, Missouri MO Mo. . Cheap cialis online without prescription, 75% supported this role even if it meant the U.S. publicly disagreeing with both sides, Michigan MI Mich. , Buy cialis from canada, and 70% supported it even if meant applying pressure to both sides.

That is good news for those of us who think toughminded American diplomacy is the only feasible way to break the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, kjøpe cialis online. But it isn't surprising to anyone who's tracked American Jewish opinion, buy cialis. Cheap cialis no prescription, In 1998, when the Clinton Administration was squabbling with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Hawaii HI , Buy cialis overnight delivery, a poll sponsored by Israel Policy Forum found that, by a 9-1 margin, billige cialis Apotheke, Purchase cialis online, American Jews wanted the administration to take an “evenhanded” approach to the Israel-Palestinian dispute and 84 percent agreed that the United States should “pressure” both Arafat and Netanyahu. In my book, buy cialis online, Order cialis online, I cite a number of other polls to show that, during the past decade, cialis pills, Jotta cialis verkossa, most American Jews have endorsed leaning on both sides, rather than just one side, Arkansas AR Ark. , Ordering cialis without prescription, when necessary.

But the new J Street survey shows something new, Om cialis online, Order cialis cod, something different, something that has gotten no attention: there is a solid bloc of Jews in the U.S, buy cialis without prescription. New Mexico NM N.Mex. , who would support their government if it pressured only Israel.

When revealing this little nugget in their analysis Buy cialis, , the pollsters, Gerstein Agne, look at the glass as half-full for supporters of Israel:

"We introduced an additional component to this exercise in this latest survey, and provided half the sample with the language cited above [about U.S. engagement] and provided the other half of the sample with language that focused exclusively on publicly disagreeing with or pressuring just Israel instead of both Israelis and Arabs, köpa rabatterade cialis. Ohio OH , [emphasis added by DF].

"Not surprisingly, New Jersey NJ N.J. , support for America playing an active role drops off considerably if it means disagreeing only with Israel (support drops 88 to 58 percent) or pressuring only Israel (support drops from 88 to 57 percent). These findings underscore how strongly Jews want the U.S. to assert itself to achieve peace, but also how much more effective it is when America is even-handed and addresses both sides instead of just one side."

True, but the findings also show that large numbers of American Jews, perhaps even a majority, have moved beyond favoring evenhandedness or honest brokerage, buy cialis. These people are simply in no mood to put up with an Israeli government that takes more steps that will preclude the possibility of a 2-state solution, although the pollsters don't spell out specific examples of Israeli recalcitrance or military adventurism when testing that proposition.

It doesn't matter if this represents the sentiments of a majority of Jews in the U.S. It obviously reflects the views of a good many of them. While no doubt some of them have always felt this way, it is likely that these numbers offer more evidence of radicalization and growing alienation from Israel, especially among younger Jewish voters. Buy cialis, Will Congress and the Obama team hear from them, and from the larger group that is comfortable with pressure on both sides if and when it is necessary. That remains to be seen.

But the results ought to be troubling to Benjamin Netanyahu. So should another nugget from the poll, which has also gone unnoticed: 72% of American Jews who give money to political campaigns oppose Israeli settlement expension. The pollsters note: "In fact, political donors stand out from the overall population on a variety of areas, including their more Democratic and progressive self-identification, greater support for peace initiatives and more negative attitudes toward Avigdor Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu."

This is further proof of what I've been pointing out for quite some time: although political donations from hawkish American Jews get all the attention from the cabal watchers, most "Jewish money" in politics comes from those who support Israel's peace camp (whatever is left of it, that is). The problem is that this support is passive. Too few of them identify their concerns about the occupation or their endorsement of tough American diplomacy when they write their checks or call their Congressperson. That is one of the habits that J Street--working in tandem with allied groups like Brit Tzedek v' Shalom and Americans for Peace Now--is trying to change. Hope it's not too late...

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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Buy cialis cod, I've patiently tried to dissect who was responsible for the Charles Freeman fiasco and to discern what it portends for the Obama administration. Some commentary on the commentary:

Myth #1: The "Israel lobby" and AIPAC per se were not behind the opposition to Freeman; it was just a bunch of loud neocons. Massachusetts MA Mass. , AIPAC has publicly denied that it lobbied against the appointment. Joe Klein writes that Freeman: “ pins his departure on ‘the Israel Lobby,’ which is imprecise, Missouri MO Mo. . He was the victim of a mob, Cheap cialis online cheap, not a lobby. The mob was composed primarily of Jewish neoconservatives–abetted by less than courageous public servants like Senator Chuck Schumer, who has publicly taken credit for the hit.”

Similarly, Jim Besser (a great reporter whom I admire) writes that he "saw no evidence the “lobby” — meaning AIPAC itself – was involved in the anti-Freeman effort, although that effort was sparked to a considerable degree by Steve Rosen, a former top AIPAC employee, and there’s plenty of evidence the more right-wing elements of the pro-Israel movement were heavily involved."

Sorry, fellas, buy cialis cod. Very reliable sources inform me that Josh Block, an AIPAC spokesperson, purchase cialis, contacted bloggers and journalists expressing concern about Freeman. Buy cialis online, That is probably what Freeman referred to when he mentioned "easily traceable e-mails" in the announcement that he was giving up the fight. Trust me on this one. I had to think twice about writing it because I want Block, cheap generic cialis, who is generally very nice to critical journalists at the AIPAC Policy Conferences, Iowa IA , to be nice to me. Buy cialis cod, There is no way I would have written it unless it were manifestly true, and important.

Even it were not true, it is simply inconceivable that Mark Kirk, cialis online kaufen, Charles Schumer and other Congressfolk who publicly objected to Freeman would have done so without the encouragement --or winks and nods-- of AIPAC. Acheter en ligne cialis, The Hill is where it lives and breathes, and nothing this important could have been orchestrated without its blessing.

Myth #2: The Freeman fracas proves that the conventional Israel lobby has the power to dictate Middle East policy by ensuring that no one willing to criticize Israel will get a hearing in the Administration. Here is Andrew Sullivan on the meaning of power in Washington: “You get to dictate to a president who he can and cannot appoint to his own intelligence staff, Kentucky KY Ky. . This was not a Senate-confirmation issue. And it was not because of some financial or tax issue, buy cialis cod. Wisconsin WI Wis. , It was because of what he believed. And a president is simply not allowed to have that kind of diversity of view in his administration. And he knows this is a battle he shouldn't fight.”

Almost, Rhode Island RI R.I. , but not quite...The Freeman affair shows that the lobby knows how to convey the IMPRESSION that it has the power to dictate Middle East policy, South Dakota SD , and that it will make life miserable for any President who wants to take an independent course on Israel. Ron Kampeas of the JTA has an interesting take on this:

I'd like to argue that if, theoretically, order cialis without prescription, a critic of Israel's occupation had been appointed to a sensitive, Ordering cialis online cheap, senior security position without Freeman's baggage, jampacked with apologias for the Saudi and the Chinese dictatorships, such a person would have been a serious test of the pro-Israel lobby's power, buy cialis cod. Buy cialis cod, I'd like to argue the point, but I don't have to: Samantha Power, after all, handles multilateral organizations on the National Security Council.

Samantha Power, Order cialis overnight delivery, who accused Israel of war crimes, who called for moneys for Israel to be diverted to the Palestinians, who called for an interventionary force to protect the Palestinians from Israel, bestill cialis online. And yes, North Dakota ND , I know the White House placated pro-Israel figures by saying that her work would be confined to Darfur and other non-Israel issues. And then her first assignment was: Durban. With nary a pro-Israel complaint, discount cialis. With the blessing (not that it would have mattered, I think) of one of Freeman's fiercest critics, Marty Peretz.

Freeman's appointment was not a serious test of the lobby's power, buy cialis cod. Not even close. Lowest price cialis, He had enough extra baggage to make him an easy mark. It is an example of a pattern that is familiar to those who follow the lobby closely: it only picks fights that it knows it can win, at least when it comes to assaulting individual reputations, comprar cialis de descuento. One important goal of these very occasional battles is to demonstrate the ability to affect political outcomes in order to make the political elite more docile. Buy cialis cod, As one Congressional staffer told me: "They only kill the deer when it is wounded and in the middle of the road."

This whole Freeman affair is an example of what my wife, who is in the ad biz, calls "power puffery." AIPAC and its allies manipulate perceptions and create exaggerated notions of their resources and influence, and foster the widespread belief that both elected and appointed officials cross swords with the lobby at their peril. Texas TX Tex. , But the Hill is filled with an increasing number of Representatives and Senators who don’t hesitate to criticize Israel and even the Israel lobby, and nothing ever happens to them. There can and should be many more, Utah UT . For example, Cialis online kopen, if anyone is a logical target for AIPAC’s wrath, it is Rep. Jim Moran, the Virginia Dem who blamed Israel’s supporters for the Iraq War and was roundly condemned by his own party in 2002. He’s been re-elected twice, buy cialis cod. The AIPACers know they can’t beat him, so they haven't tried (at least they haven't tried very hard). I get into all of this is in much more detail in my book. Sorry, can’t give away more now.

Yes, Hobbes was mostly correct: ‘The perception of power is power.” But that is true only if people allow it to be true, if they don’t bother to scrutinize carefully the extent to which someone can actually do what he wants you to believe he can do. Samantha Power got the Durban portfolio, for God’s sake. Of course, Obama will take political risks if he relies on people who want to help him chart a truly independent course in the Middle East. But the risks are not as great as the lobby, and the critics who help it puff up its power, want us to believe. And that is good news.

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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Friday, January 23rd, 2009

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4) J Street, order viagra without prescription, Buy viagra, whose PAC raised more money for candidates than any other self-styled pro-Israel PAC in the last election cycle. I believe we ain't seen nothin' yet from this group and their allies in the organized American Jewish community, including Americans for Peace Now, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and Ameinu, ordering viagra.

5) AIPAC's inherent limitations-- In my forthcoming book (please don't hesitate to stop reading this and order now), cheap viagra without prescription, Kjøpe billig viagra, I skewer the myth that the conventional Israel lobby (which includes AIPAC) is an immovable object that no political force can possibly dislodge. It is PERCEIVED to be such an object by elected officials, Hawaii HI , Köpa billiga viagra, but much of its clout is based on smoke and mirrors. I hope beyond hope that Obama will take to heart the historical lessons noted in the following excerpt:

“History shows that when presidents are determined to do something in U.S, Maryland MD Md. . Viagra without a prescription, interests, the lobby folds, buy viagra c.o.d., Minnesota MN Minn. , ” said Samuel Lewis a former U.S. Ordering viagra, ambassador to Israel who has held several other State Department posts related to the Middle East. “As [George H, ostaa halvalla viagra. Viagra online cheap, W.] Bush demonstrated, the White House can win the fight, ordering viagra online. Køb billige viagra, Carter had all kinds of problems with the Jewish community, but that didn’t stop him from going forward with our Middle East policy, Washington WA Wash. . Cheapest viagra in the world, The lobby didn’t have any substantive impact on Carter. To the extent that he was influenced [in Israel’s favor], it was by the Israelis, ordering viagra. , comprar viagra baratos. . . Clinton stood up to them, to some extent. Ordering viagra, Presidents actually have a lot more freedom than they feel like they have. If a president wants to stand up to the lobby, he can.”

6) The "open policy window" -- There is also hope to be found in the empirical observations of political scientist John Kingdon, who studied how agendas are set in DC. He wrote of "open policy windows," i.e., junctures when opportunities exist for decisive political action. That happens, Kingdon observed, when a problem takes center stage, ideas for solving it are readily available, and political winds are blowing in the right direction. They don’t open often, and they don’t stay open long. But one reason they open is a change in presidential administrations, when, as Kingdon put it, “the new administration gives some groups, legislators and agencies their opportunity—an open policy window—to push positions and proposals they did not have the opportunity to push with previous administrations, and it disadvantages other players.”

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Thursday, January 15th, 2009

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The assessment now is that the Obama administration will weigh the political situation carefully before deciding on a cut to the guarantees and may try to link it with Israeli measures beyond the Green Line.

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Ordering viagra over the counter, After years of shamelessly pretending to know what Reinhold Niebuhr wrote and thought when his name came up in conversation, I have taken the trouble to start reading him for the first time. There are two reasons. One is that our President-elect has indicated that Niebuhr has had a profound effect on his thinking.

Andrew J, cheap viagra no prescription. Bacevich noted in the Boston Globe, "Faced with difficult problems, Cheap viagra no rx, conservative evangelicals ask: What would Jesus do. We are now entering an era in which the occupant of the Oval Office will consider a different question: What would Reinhold do, ordering viagra over the counter.

"...Obama has written that he took from reading Niebuhr `the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world' along with the conviction that evil's persistence should not be `an excuse for cynicism and inaction.' Yet Niebuhr also taught him that `we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things.' As a point of departure for reformulating US foreign policy, we could do a lot worse."

But there is another aspect of Niebuhr's thought that has not gotten any attention of late. During World War II and afterwards, online viagra, he was an unapologetic Zionist. That is the second reason why I have started to read him. Order viagra from canada, We live in a time when the entire Zionist enterprise is being reduced by its detractors to a murderous, western colonialism whose main goal was to steal land, rather than to help a people survive. Ordering viagra over the counter, So it is instructive to remember that, during and soon after the Nazi reign of terror, at least some Christians of good conscience believed the Jews needed a homeland in Palestine.

Niebuhr was a man who constantly balanced a passion for justice with an understanding of the power and prevalence of original sin, New Hampshire NH N.H. , which limited the ability of individuals and societies to right wrongs. In summing up his life and thought, Comprar viagra, he wrote "I might define this conviction (that a realist conception of human nature should be made the servant of an ethic of progressive justice] as the guiding principle throughout my mature life of the relation of religious responsibility to political affairs."

Niebuhr's essay, "Jews After the War," (Feb. 21, παραγγείλετε online viagra, 1941, in The Nation) was all about justice:

The problem of what is to become of the Jews in the postwar world ought to engage all of us, Order viagra online cheap, not only because a suffering people has a claim upon our compassion but because the very quality of our civilization is involved in a solution. It is a scandal that the Jews have had so little effective aid from the rest of us in a situation in which they are the chief victims. [DF here: This is 1941, remember, years before the enormity of the Nazis' crimes was clear.] The Nazis intended to decimate the Poles and to reduce other people to the state of helots, but they are bent on the extermination of the Jews.

It is a complicated, nuanced essay and, like all of his work, can't be summed up easily, ordering viagra over the counter. Briefly, his solution was to make it possible for the Jews to have a homeland while ALSO insisting that the civil rights and liberties of Jews in other countries be protected, generic viagra. Was there a concern about the Arabs of Palestine. Yes, Viagra online cheap, up to a point. He noted that the Zionists were "unrealistic in expecting that their demands entailed no `injustice' to the Arab population... Ordering viagra over the counter, It is absurd to expect any people to regard the restriction of their sovereignty over a traditional possession as `just...' What is required is a policy that offers a just solution to an intricate problem faced by a whole civilization." He hoped that the aspirations and needs of Arabs after the war could be addressed in a confederation of new and existing Arab states.

So there was a typical lack of understanding of Palestinian nationalism and, I infer, cheap viagra online without prescription, probably too much faith in the moral grounding of Ben Gurion and the other Zionist leaders. But at a time when liberals (including liberal Protestants) and "progressives" refused to press for an opening of the gates so that Jewish refugees could be rescued, Acquistare a buon mercato viagra, what Niebuhr wanted was the best solution possible in a morally corroded, sinful world.

I wish all of the people who are so quick to dismiss the Zionists as nothing but racist, ethnic cleansers, viagra for sale, and to heap disdain on non-Jewish supporters of the Jewish state in the '40s as blinkered Orientalists, would read that essay. Alaska AK , You can find some it excerpted in Google Books as part of an anthology called Love and Justice (great title!).

In particular, I wish my friend and former classmate Philip Weiss, who brings an admirable moral fervor to his rage at the Israelis and their American Jewish supporters, and who has nothing good to say about Jewish nationalism of any kind, would read it, ordering viagra over the counter. Among other things, it lambastes the "universalists" of Neibuhr's time who refused to accept the value of any ethnic distinctions and believed, even in the midst of World War II, Massachusetts MA Mass. , that the solution to the Jews' problems was to fight discrimination against them and foster their assimilation (Last I heard, Phil was working on a book called The Assimilationist). Order viagra, But now the question is, what would Reinhold have done about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2009, and what should his admirer in the White House do.

There are many Niebuhr scholars and admirers out there who are a thousand times more qualified than me to speculate, cheap viagra pills. But I believe it is safe to say that he would have been appalled by the consequences of the Israeli occupation that commenced in 1967, at the treatment of Palestinians at checkpoints, Utah UT , at the refusal or inability of Israel's political system to stand up to the settlers who have made most --although not all--of those checkpoints necessary. Ordering viagra over the counter, He also would have been appalled by Palestinian terrorism, the incitement against Jews in the Palestinian media, the election of Hamas and other mistakes made by Israel's neighbors. But since it was a passion for justice that energized him, I believe his primary interest would have been to address the terrible problems of the Palestinian people, just as he was once interested in solving the terrible problems of a ravaged, purchase viagra, dispersed Jewish people.

It is also true, District of Columbia DC D.C. , as Basevich points out, that "Niebuhr specialized in precise distinctions. He supported US intervention in World War II - and condemned the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended that war. After 1945, Texas TX Tex. , Niebuhr believed it just and necessary to contain the Soviet Union. Yet he forcefully opposed US intervention in Vietnam."

In other words, he was...a realistic dove, ordering viagra over the counter. A passionate moderate. Delaware DE Del. , I choose to believe that he would have seen that the only rational, and moral way out of the Israeli-Palestinian nightmare was a two-state solution. And, just as he called for governmental activism on a host of issues --including the civil rights of black Americans--, South Carolina SC S.C. , surely Niebuhr would have called upon the Obama Administration to DO SOMETHING about the Israeli-Palestinian question, even though he might have been skeptical of its ability to succeed. Viagra en ligne afin, The establishment of a Jewish state was a bold idea when he endorsed it. Ordering viagra over the counter, But there were times when he insisted upon boldness that was tempered with realism.

That's what we need from Obama. The boldness needed to stand up to the conventional Israel lobby and press both sides, rather than just one side, buy viagra without prescription, to make difficult compromises. The realism needed to understand that scores of Middle East peace plans and proposals have been consigned to the graveyard for more than a hundred years. And the passion for justice that will persuade him to ignore all of those failures, and try his best.

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Friday, July 25th, 2008

Philip Weiss and I have been communicating after he attacked J Street on MondoWeiss Generic viagra, . A good many issues were broached, but one of his arguments is that J Street ought to be appealing to a much broader constituency than American Jews who feel some attachment to Israel. Viagra pills, Some of his acolytes, true to form, said there was no fundamental difference between J Street and AIPAC, we are all just racist Zionist Jews providing cover for Israeli oppression (and, ordering viagra pills, true to form, some said we are all disloyal to America). Idaho ID , Here is my response (slightly revised from the one I sent Phil):

Phil,

The Israeli-Arab problem is America’s problem. Solving it can and should be a high priority for all Americans. It is critically important for a wider, more broad-based coalition of Americans –Jewish and non-Jewish—to counter the right wing Jewish and Christian Zionist furies, generic viagra. I completely agree with you, Kjøp Discount viagra. Church groups, Arab American organizations, Virginia VA Va. , unions, everyone who wants evenhanded American diplomacy should weigh in. Some of them already do, often working side by side with my camp: e.g., order viagra, Churches for Middle East Peace, the U.S. Alabama AL Ala. , Conference of Catholic Bishops, centrist and left wing evangelicals trying to show that John Hagee doesn’t speak for them, the Arab American Institute and the American Task Force on Palestine. Generic viagra, There is nothing stopping you and all of your fans from organizing all Americans. Go ahead, Køb discount viagra, if you want to.

But you will notice that all of those other groups are organizations based on specific religious or ethnic identities. Order viagra online without prescription, We all understand that it is in America’s interests to end the nightmare of the occupation, but we all bring other aspects of our identities to the table.

Some of your fans resent the whole idea of American Jews having ANYTHING to say about this issue. Do they also think those who are organized as Catholics, or Arab Americans, should have no say, generic viagra. Or should self-identified Jews just step back and shut up and let “real Americans” fix the mess the Zionists have made, köpa billiga viagra. Guess what. Even if that proposition weren’t offensive and racist, Texas TX Tex. , it would a disastrous political move.

Right now, the political reality is that the conventional Israel lobby in the Jewish community has persuaded politicians that it speaks on behalf of the only Jews who matter, and that retribution awaits those who cross it, goedkope viagra apotheek. Generic viagra, (The Christian Zionists have had similar successes with some in Congress, so that evangelicals like the Sojourners also don’t get taken seriously enough).

One way to help change this political reality is to demonstrate that another, large, Purchase viagra, vocal, politically engaged part of the American Jewish community exists, and that it will support American leaders who don’t always do what the conventional lobby wants. That is not the only thing that needs to be done, Tennessee TN Tenn. . But it is one of the things that needs to be done.

I can’t possibly convince the people who comment on your posts why there is a big difference between AIPAC and J Street or Brit Tzedek ‘v Shalom or APN. I, and others, have been trying to counter AIPAC and the right wing of the Jewish community for many years, generic viagra. Comprar viagra de descuento, We’ve lost. We’ve blown it. But we’ve tried. I was among those who called for the U..S, order viagra without prescription. Generic viagra, and Israel to talk to the PLO long before the Oslo years. APN, on whose board I serve, Washington WA Wash. , was one of the few Jewish groups that supported GH Bush on penalizing Israel financially because of its stance on the settlements. As far as I’m concerned, targeted financial penalties should be on the table now. Did I and others make mistakes, online viagra. Zillions of them. But if people see no distinction between those positions and AIPAC’s, there is no sense in discussing it further, generic viagra.

Right now, Oregon OR Ore. , though I have a very specific goal that J Street and others share. The specific goal is to help create a political environment in which the next president feels like he has the leeway to exert necessary pressures on both sides, rather than just one side, of the Israeli-Arab conflict, buy viagra without prescription. It is to give the president the sense that he will have broad-based support from a vocal, strong constituency if, West Virginia WV W.Va. , for example, he tells the Israelis to stop the madness of continuing settlement expansion and, if they don’t, imposes real costs, comprar viagra.

And yes, of course, παραγγείλετε online viagra, just stopping expansion is not the end goal; getting the settlers out of there is the goal, but the freeze has to be the first step. Generic viagra, The next step will be more difficult but that has to be taken, too.

The mission in life of some American Jews is to prevent American pressure of any kind on any Israeli government. All the other policy matters you are talking about –e.g, Pennsylvania PA Penn. , whether they want Jerusalem to be united or not—are important, but they are much less important than whether the U.S. Mississippi MS Miss. , has the diplomatic flexibility it needs to take a balanced approach instead of a one-sided approach.

As you know, I have been hard at work writing a book about all of this. And I can tell you that based on my own, rather painful experience in the American Jewish trenches and a good many interviews with members of Congress, their aides, and American officials from several administrations, I KNOW the following to be true: politicians need to hear from many more American Jews, including political contributors, who will say that AIPAC and the rest of the conventional lobby do not speak for them, generic viagra. That is the political reality. That is the battle J Street and its allies are trying to wage. But it is only part of the battle. I hope there is a broader coalition of Americans, speaking together as Americans, who press our government to get more engaged in this conflict and do what needs to be done in order to preserve the possibility of two states. Be my guest. Go out and organize.

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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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As I've noted before, viagra farmacia a buon mercato, there are perhaps 50 people in the world who have a sufficiently detailed understanding of Iranian politics and its nuclear development program to provide recommendations that are worth considering. I am not one of them. Illinois IL Ill. , Neither, apparently, is anyone in the Bush Administration. Parsi is, viagra pills.

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Analysis by Trita Parsi

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Last week, Florida FL Fla. , the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group—held its annual policy conference in Washington, and it went as you might expect. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Viagra pills, John McCain roused the faithful with a call to tighten the noose on Iran and mocked those who favor a more diplomatic approach. U.S, Nebraska NE Nebr. . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explained that negotiating with Iranian leaders would be pointless “while they continue to inch closer to a nuclear weapon under the cover of talk.” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for “all possible means” to be used to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. A few days later, Buy viagra overnight delivery, Israel’s Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz warned that an attack on Iran is “unavoidable” as long as Tehran “continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons.”

As if to underscore these arguments, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad obligingly played the role of villain, predicting ominously from Tehran that Israel will “soon disappear off the geographical scene.” Against this backdrop, it’s safe to say that few at AIPAC were convinced by newly minted Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s call for direct U.S, ordering viagra without prescription. talks with Iran (though the Illinois senator did win many new friends at the conference this year). In fact, AIPAC and Israeli leaders fear that any bargain between Washington and Tehran would come at their expense and have heightened their rhetoric accordingly, viagra pills.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Order viagra c.o.d., Although Iran and Israel will not be signing any mutual defense pacts anytime soon, the two countries aren’t destined to be implacable foes. If anything, Israel could be a prime beneficiary of a rapprochement between Washington and Tehran, kjøpe billig viagra.

It might sound inconceivable that Iran, whose leaders since 1979 have used the most venomous rhetoric against the “little Satan, Minnesota MN Minn. , ” would ever moderate its stance toward Israel. Viagra pills, Yet a careful review of the past three decades shows that Iran’s hostile rhetoric is more a product of opportunism than fanaticism. Iran and Israel have even been willing to work together quietly at times, despite their conflicting ideologies.

The reason is simple: When forced to choose, Vermont VT Vt. , Tehran invariably chooses its geostrategic interests over its ideological impulses. In no other area is the decisiveness of the strategic dimension of Iran’s foreign policy clearer than when it comes to Israel. Viagra without a prescription, When these two pillars of Iranian foreign policy have clashed, as they did in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, Iran’s geostrategic concerns have consistently prevailed. Tehran quietly sought Israel’s aid, and the Jewish state made many efforts to place Iran and the United States back on speaking terms, viagra pills. Faced with an invading Iraqi army and finding its U.S.-built weaponry starved of spare parts by a U.S, District of Columbia DC D.C. . embargo, Tehran was in desperate need of help from Israel. Louisiana LA , Israel, in turn, was more than eager to avoid an Iraqi victory and to restore the traditional Israeli-Iranian clandestine security cooperation established under the shah, the mullahs’ fierce anti-Israeli rhetoric notwithstanding, order viagra online.

Iran never discarded its Islamic and anti-Israeli ideology, but for years it did refrain from translating that ideology into operational policy. Viagra pills, It has been only for the past 15 years, for example, that Iran has come to play such a spoiler role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New York NY N.Y. , Why now. Today, the ideological and strategic currents of Iran’s foreign policy are aligned, and the results are visible in every corner of the region: a surging Hezbollah in Lebanon, buy viagra c.o.d., a more deeply entrenched Hamas in the Palestinian territories, a radicalizing Shiite population in Iraq. Acheter viagra, Quelling these potential threats requires understanding why Iran behaves the way it does. On a strategic level, Iran opposes Israel because it perceives the Jewish state as seeking its exclusion from regional affairs. Iran thinks Israel is working assiduously to counter its interests, whether in Washington or Ashgabat, viagra pills. Israel is seen as a major obstacle in initiating a U.S.-Iran dialogue and has played a critical role in putting Iran’s nuclear program atop the international agenda, South Dakota SD . Even Ahmadinejad’s highly ideological broadsides against Israel have come to have a strategic purpose. Playing the anti-Israeli card helps Iran overcome the Persian-Arab and Shiite-Sunni divide, Buy viagra, Tehran reasons. Harsh rhetoric against Israel goes down well with the Arab street, increasing tensions between Arab governments and their publics, which in turn prevents the Arabs from signing up with Tel Aviv against Tehran, New Mexico NM N.Mex. . Viagra pills, The key to eliminating the danger Iran could pose to Israel lies in arranging these two forces of Iranian foreign policy—strategic interest and ideology—to counter each other once again. Threats of war and sanctions cannot achieve this end, however. Köpa rabatterade viagra, Only through a larger accommodation—Iranian political rehabilitation in the region in return for an end to destructive Iranian behavior—will Iran let go of its open hostility toward the Jewish state. Brought in from the cold, Tehran’s cost-benefit analysis would change dramatically. The Islamic Republic would be careful not to undermine its own geopolitical status with ideology-driven anti-Israeli and anti-American behavior, cheap generic viagra.

This is not a new formula, nor is it untested, viagra pills. China refuses to discard its communist pretense, but global integration has made it loath to put communist economic principles into practice due to the devastating impact it would have on its economic interests. Cheap viagra online, But why would Iran seek serious negotiations now, opponents of diplomacy might ask, when it appears to be having its way in the Middle East. Because the Iranians are eager to consolidate their gains through talks with the next U.S, Arizona AZ Ariz. . administration and win American recognition for their role in the region. Viagra pills, Those who would reject dialogue cannot have it both ways. They can’t argue that Washington shouldn’t negotiate because it lacks leverage (which isn’t true—for one, only the United States can lift its sanctions and support Iran’s inclusion in a new regional security architecture) and simultaneously claim that Tehran prefers the status quo and isn’t interested in talks precisely because Iran does have leverage.

In reality, the United States need not pressure Iran to come to the negotiation table; it need only demonstrate that it is serious about reaching a strategic understanding. What will induce Tehran to play ball is not a threat, but the promise of achieving a legitimate regional role without surrendering its pride. For Israel, that could be a good thing. A tamed Iran—integrated into the region’s political and economic structures and the forces of globalization—is much less dangerous than an angry and isolated Iran that defends its interests by fanning the flames of anti-Israeli extremism in the region. That’s a concept supporters of Israel and AIPAC should find useful.

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Buy viagra pills, I have read even more drivel than usual about AIPAC in the blogosphere these days, and thought I would explain a few things to those who have never attended an AIPAC Policy Conference.

First of all, AIPAC does not appear to be trying to prod the U.S. to bomb Iran. Rabatt kaufen viagra, If it is, I have not seen any credible evidence, just a lot of inferential yammering by those whose stock-in-trade is to promote the notion that the so-called “Lobby” is a bunch of bellicose fifth columnists.

Here, for example, buy viagra online without prescription, is Justin Raimondo, an articulate libertarian whose Antiwar.com is an increasingly popular source for all things anti-Israel and anti-AIPAC: "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to the U.S. is part of a concerted effort, by the Israeli government and its American lobbyists, to convince U.S, buy viagra pills. lawmakers – and, αγοράσετε viagra έκπτωση, most of all, President George W. Bush – that the time to attack Iran is now."

At last week's Policy Conference, attendees got a distinctly different impression. Sure, Florida FL Fla. , there was obligatory tough talk about the perils of a nuclearized Iran. Sure, anyone who asserted or hinted that the military option should remain on the table could count on applause in the small seminars and the large plenary sessions. Buy viagra pills, Of course the notion of unconditional dialogue with Iran was an object of scorn. Michigan MI Mich. , And, yes, the action agenda pushed for tightened sanctions against Iran. AIPAC called for its grassroots troops to descend on Congress and urge passage of the Iran Counterproliferation Act in the Senate, and to promote a slightly tougher, New Jersey NJ N.J. , non-binding resolution from Reps. Gary Ackerman and Mike Pence. But, Cheapest viagra, as described by Ron Kampeas of JTA, one of the smartest reporters in Washington:

The language of the [Ackerman-Pence] resolution is sensitive to the political realities of a presidential campaign that has made the possibility of war against Iran a partisan issue: It explicitly counts out military action -- a point hammered home in the AIPAC talking points.

"The resolution specifically states that nothing in the resolution shall be construed to be an authorization for military action," the sheet says, buy viagra pills. "In fact, the sanctions called for in H. Con, ordering viagra no rx. Res. 362 are the best way to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear capability by avoiding military action."

Additionally, the action part of the resolution opens by declaring "that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, Maine ME Me. , through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently."

Notably absent from AIPAC's talking points is any mention of military force -- a prospect that spooks Democrats and would discomfit an organization that prides itself on its bipartisanship. [emphasiis added by DF]

Kampeas is spot on. Buy viagra pills, I suspect a large part of the membership would have been upset by overt war-mongering. I know this is a rather inconvenient truth. Painting the AIPACers with a broad brush as a dangerous, buy viagra, evil band of Likud supporters and war-hungry "neocons” makes it much easier for those who oppose the group to mobilize, and to write angry op-eds and blog posts filled with reckless generalizations that ignore complex, institutional truths. Comprar viagra baratos, Mea culpa: I've written a few of those myself.

Dismissing AIPAC as nothing but a support group or cheering section for Dick Cheney and Richard Perle feeds the hunger of those on the far left and far right for a bogeyman, an organization that can serve, along with Israel itself, as a kind of totemic hate object, buy viagra online, a repository of all that is wrong. I am trying to write a book about the conventional Israel lobby and my task would be much easier if AIPAC could be summed up so glibly, buy viagra pills. But I’m afraid it can’t.

The inconvenient truth is that many of its members and board members are centrist Democrats; they are politically moderate, Cheap viagra online without prescription, at least by American standards. They want the U.S. to keep Israel strong by giving it a qualitative military edge because they believe Israel's neighbors still want to destroy it. Buy viagra pills, They are deeply worried about Iran and the dangers they believe it poses to Israel and to the U.S., especially to American troops in Iraq, But they are not irresponsibly trigger happy. Even Philip Weiss, a hero of the cabal-watchers, viagra generic, was initially a bit perplexed when, in the first policy conference he attended, he found himself rubbing shoulders with attendees and listening to speakers who were moderate, Kaufen viagra, temperate and as desirious of peace as he is (although they don't care as much about Palestinian suffering or Palestinian rights as he does).

My friend and fellow Ameinu board member Judy Gelman, described the AIPACers in an email to the organization's leadership:

Who goes to AIPAC. This year's conference had over 7500 participants, about 1200 of who were students, cheapest viagra online. The attendees also included many large congregational groups. I don't know how many rabbis brought congregants but 4 rabbis were acknowledged as having brought more than 100 congregants with them, buy viagra pills. Two of these congregants were large Conservative shuls from LA, one of which (Valley Beth Shalom) had over 200 participants (the other was Sinai Temple). Acheter en ligne viagra, Stephen Wise Synagogue from NY (also Conservative) was one of the others. So the participants at the Policy Conference are not a group of wild-eyed reactionaries. Kippot are rare and tzitzit almost completely absent. Buy viagra pills, It is pretty much the people you would be sitting next to at Holy Holidays at a Conservative shul. Like most Jews, these are largely Democrats--not the most liberal Democrats, Iowa IA , but still Democrats and mostly from NY, CA, Chicago, North Carolina NC N.C. , Philly, Southern Florida, but also from the smaller Jewish communities like Tulsa, Salt Lake City and Orlando. From these smaller communities, viagra cheap, it is not uncommon for AIPAC activists to overlap heavily with the Federation and local congregational leadership. AIPAC gives these people (mostly people of considerable wealth) a way to connect to Israel politically, and also to connect with their local politicians on behalf of Israel. Order viagra online cheap, What AIPAC "sells" them is a way to be informed about Israel and a way to be involved for Israel.

She's right, buy viagra pills. Most of them are not "neocons." They are just very worried about Israel. They come to these conferences expecting guidance and instruction about how they --and America-- can help to keep it safe. It's not much more complicated than that. What's more, order viagra from canada, although they were urged to suppress partisan poltical instincts, many of them cheered for Obama not only because they were glad he expressed support for Israel; they also cheered for him because they were Democrats and, like the rest of us, Om viagra online, want an end to the Republican reign of error. Buy viagra pills, Of course, there are also vocal, irrepressible militarists in that organization. In a speech to the plenary on Monday night, Executive Director Howard Kohr gave, I think, some clues about the pressures on him from that wing of AIPAC, købe viagra online. After rattling off the many dangers posed by Iran and the need to sanction it, he said:

Now, I have spoken to you and I know you feel a real sense of frustration. Viagra online kaufen, Of impatience. You have asked me, from New York and Los Angeles, what more can we do. You wonder, is there still time for our efforts to work, buy viagra pills.

My friends, I understand your concern.

But I want to make the case to you today that the path of political and economic sanctions is still the best immediate option. There is still time..to persuade Iran through sanctions that its leader cannot vow to wipe Israel off the map. It cannot promise to visit destruction on Israel, and escape the consequences of its actions…My friends, we cannot lose our determination to stay on this path –together we must make it clear that Iran must change its behavior.

Buy viagra pills, He could have gone much further. He could have revved up the crowd to show the attentive world that these American Jews were serious about doing whatever was necessary to take out Iran's nuclear capability. Instead, he urged the AIPACers to trod what was, at least in their Manichean version of reality, a middle path.

I still think they are wrong, these AIPACers, about a good many things. They are wrong to ratchet up tensions with Iran and favor all sticks and no carrots. They have been wrong about Draconian restrictions on aid to the Palestinian Authority and will continue to be wrong in their opposition to evenhanded American diplomacy in the Middle East, buy viagra pills. I still think an alternative political bloc, a lobby for the rest of us that encourages a new American course in the Middle East, is necessary. The stony, uncomfortable silence that greeted Sec. of State Rice when she dared to refer to the "daily humiliations" suffered by Palestinians is reason enough to develop that alternative.

But if we want to change the current, conventional Israel lobby, we need to understand how it actually works and who is in it, not create straw men and straw women.

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Order viagra online without prescription, Barack Obama had 7,000+ American Jews and non-Jewish friends of Israel eating out of his hand at the AIPAC Policy Conference yesterday morning. There was no political reason for him to disappoint Palestinians, the Arab world and the pro-Israel left by stating his commitment to an “undivided" Jerusalem. Viagra pharmacy, I have the highest hopes for this man, but his statement on Jerusalem was a major blunder that could easily have been avoided.

I have been coming to these AIPAC conferences over the years as an observer and as the Jewish peace camp’s equivalent of a Log Cabin Republican, believing that if you can’t get a seat at the power table with these people, viagra online, at least you should be in the room and take their measure.

This one, Viagra without prescription, like all the others, was a masterpiece of political theater. It was a combination of agit-prop worthy of Mao, a Veterans of Foreign Wars conclave and shmaltzy Yiddish theater, order viagra online without prescription.

One plenary session after another conveyed that it is 1938, it has always been 1938, buy viagra no prescription, the darkness is upon us, with footage of the Holocaust on giant screens, Viagra, interspersed with scary stills of the Iranian president, scenes of terrorist bombings, Hamas rockets in mid-flight. The argument that Israel’s security was intertwined with America’s, cheap viagra pills, that Israel is on the front line of our battle, was hammered home in seminars with military experts, Cheap generic viagra, in speeches from Members of Congress. It was conveyed in icons and totems, like the ubiquitous logo with an American and Israeli flag, and the tag line: “The American-Israel relationship: Built to Last.” And, cheap viagra no rx, amidst all the flagwaving and policy discussions, there were tear-jerkers, Wyoming WY Wyo. , like the obligatory but deeply moving stories of Israelis who had built lives from the ashes.

But the most important political theater focused on the candidates. Order viagra online without prescription, Before the conference, AIPAC sent emails and letters urging attendees to be respectful of all speakers. Throughout the proceedings, for three days, Missouri MO Mo. , its stage managers did a masterful job of putting a damper on grumpy right wing protest, knowing that, Kjøpe viagra online, in the past, strident hawks and settler supporters had booed Nancy Pelosi and Colin Powell (when he defended the Road Map) and a string of reasonable people stretching back to Secretary of State Jim Baker.

A staffer who led a small seminar on lobbying techniques told us that every speaker is a “guest in our house,” that any friend of Israel should be greeted as a friend of ours, ordering viagra online cheap.

The worst thing, the very worst thing, Order viagra overnight delivery, that could happen to AIPAC would be a war between a presumptive presidential nominee and the self-appointed “pro-Israel” community. That is something the cabal-watchers who are obsessed with the attention paid by politicians to the American Jewish community fail to understand: AIPAC needs the candidates as much as they need AIPAC. The group needs access to every administration, lines of communication, friendly relations with mid- and upper-level staffers, order viagra online without prescription. It needs access not only to try to influence and monitor policy; it needs access because its high-level donors expect to be rewarded and honored with the chance to be in small rooms where administration officials listen –or pretend to listen—to them. So it would have been very foolish to annoy Barack Obama, cheap viagra without prescription.

Before the session in which Obama and Hillary Clinton (and Congressional leaders from both parties) were to speak, screens in the center of the grand ballroom of the DC Convention Center displayed telling quotes from, Nebraska NE Nebr. , fittingly enough, American icons, not rabbis:

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins” –Benjamin Franklin

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“Friendship is precious.” –Thomas Jefferson, generic viagra.

McCain, of course, Farmacia viagra baratos, had been the star of Act 1, laying down the gauntlet for his opponent by insulting Iran, challenging Obama’s security bona fides and weak-kneed willingness to talk to enemies. Order viagra online without prescription, He got applause for every bit of red-meat rhetoric, more than a dozen ovations. More than half of the people who roared and got to their feet were Democrats and a large percentage are not going to vote for him, West Virginia WV W.Va. . Some of them had been fans of the Oslo process. (American Jews, Buy viagra online cheap, according to the old saw, live like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans. Some Americans Jews think like Shimon Peres but cheer like Likudniks).

But in Act 2, Obama did what he had to do, and for the most part he did it very well, order viagra online without prescription. Even as he walked on eggshells, købe viagra, differentiated himself from McCain and outlined a reasonable approach to foreign policy, he gave them everything they needed and more: a sincere and heartfelt admiration and empathy for Israel, Köpa viagra, an assurance that his toughminded diplomacy did not mean placating Iran, a commitment to Israel’s “qualitative military edge.”

At one point, he even rushed, breathlessly, billig viagra apotek, through a sentence about Israel’s obligations, one that was left out of the NY Times report on the speech and has gone almost unmentioned in the blogosphere. Georgia GA Ga. , He bravely said that Israel could “advance the cause of peace” by taking steps to “ease the freedom of Palestinians, improve economic conditions” and “refrain from building settlements.”

That got no applause, but it didn’t matter, he already owned the crowd, where to buy viagra. They wanted to come away feeling, deep in their kishkes, Buy cheap viagra online, that this man would protect Israel. He gave them what they wanted. Order viagra online without prescription, And that is why all the Republicans in the room joined in the standing ovations. And why the stage managers breathed sighs of relief.

So there was no need to call for a Jewish state with Jerusalem as its “undivided” capital. If he had left out any reference to Jerusalem, no one would have noticed. He and his advisors cannot possibly believe that this should be a red line for Israel. Ehud Olmert doesn’t believe it, order viagra online without prescription. No Israeli or Palestinian who sincerely wants a two state solution believes it.

It will have no bearing on what happens if he is elected, because if the parties to the conflict want to divide Jerusalem, of course he will express delight.

But the foolish words escaped from his lips, in a scene broadcast throughout the world, and now he won’t be able to take them back. It is yet another discouraging signal to the Palestinian people, most of whom have understandably lost faith in the possibility of a negotiated settlement, even though they continue to endorse the idea.

It is yet another reason why alternative voices in the American Jewish community need to be heard. And it is another reason why there is an urgent need to change the political calculus that prompted Obama to believe that maximalist rhetoric about Jerusalem was necessary.

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