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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

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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Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Buy viagra overnight delivery, There are enemies of everything Israeli who are like the storied Jewish mamas who prefer to suffer in darkness because suffering is more comfortable, suffering –and anger about the past—is what they are used to. That’s the simile that comes to mind as, gasp, Ostaa halvalla viagra, good news rears its unexpected head in the West Bank and in Israel proper.

Ethan Bronner’s piece about the new oasis of cooperation in Jenin in Friday’s New York Times should warm the cockles of anyone with a heart. Normally, any piece about Israel or the territories that appears in the New York Times is greeted immediately with a host of passionate, billiga viagra apotek, cranky bloggers from the Israel-can-do-no-right crowd (as well as the Israel-can-do-no-wrong crowd). It is interesting that, Ordering viagra online without prescription, thus far, the Bronner piece has been greeted mostly with silence.

Due to a number of factors in Jenin, Bronner reports:

“Civilians are planning economic cooperation — an industrial zone to provide thousands of jobs, mostly to Palestinians, and another involving organic produce grown by Palestinians and marketed in Europe by Israelis, buy viagra overnight delivery. Ministers from both governments have been visiting regularly, often joined by top international officials, order viagra online. Israeli Arabs are playing a key role.”

The article notes an infusion of Palestinian citizens of Israel into Jenin and its economy. They are playing the role many had long hoped they would play: a bridge between Israeli Jews and Arabs in the territories. Acheter viagra bon marché, And Bronner gives well-deserved, long-delayed credit to the Jewish and Arab Israelis of Gilboa, a region next to Jenin, whom co-existence advocates cite as a model of Arabs and Jews figuring out how to respect each other’s cultures and build a common future, acquistare a buon mercato viagra. Buy viagra overnight delivery, To his credit, Philip Weiss, normally a harsh critic of mainstream Israeli and American Jews, praised the article and the news it conveyed. But a Google search reveals that, by and large, Billig kaufen viagra, pundits who are hostile to everything connected with Israel are saying…nothing.

I suspect it is a stunned, bewildered silence. Productive cooperation between the occupiers and the occupied, Oregon OR Ore. , and possible models for cooperation between two states, has no place in the worldview of those who think Mahmoud Abbas and his people are “collaborators” and Israeli stooges, Order viagra no prescription, and that peace talks are just “fig leaves” to hide the ongoing colonization that, we are told, is the real motive of the Israelis.

One finds that perspective expressed eloquently on, For viagra online, for example, The Electronic Intifadeh.There, Ordering viagra no rx, even the “Arab Peace Initiative” is judged to be "one terrible example of offering free concessions to the Israeli position without any demand for reciprocation.” One finds it on One State Solution and other sites that attract those who believe that two states are an impossibility, the Israelis have completely colonized the West Bank and precluded the possibility of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state, the only answer is a secular, bestill viagra online, bi-national state. Many of them describe Palestinian citizens of Israel the same way the ultra-right in Israel describes these citizens, i.e, people who cannot possibly be integrated into a majority Jewish state or shape a common destiny with fellow citizens who are Jews, buy viagra overnight delivery.

My purpose here is not to rehash the one-state vs. Buy viagra cod, two-state debate or to castigate all of those who support the former. There are credible arguments for both. It may well be, indeed, Louisiana LA , that it is too late for two states, it is yesterday's solution, Comprare viagra sconto, and supporting it is like pushing for the break-up of Bell Telephone, or a road through a ghost town that was deserted long ago. Buy viagra overnight delivery, I, for one, haven't given up quite yet, in part because there is no practical alternative. But that's a discussion for another time and place. Today, purchase viagra, my purpose is to note the reaction --or lack of reaction—of the Israel-revilers and one-staters when there are glimmers of hope that the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority can work together for the betterment of both peoples. I predict that either the stunned silence will continue, Viagra discount, or that we will see a spate of commentaries about the manner in which Bronner ignored Israel’s “crimes.”

The imperatives of daily life are forcing cooperation and the movement of buyers and sellers from one side of the Green Line to the other side. The same imperatives have prompted Jews and Arabs in Gilboa to defy skeptics and try to create a wholly new kind of Israeli identity.The imperatives of finding an enduring solution are prompting more cooperation between Palestinian and Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

There is at least a chance that what is happening in Jenin and Gilboa can be replicated elsewhere, isn’t there, buy viagra overnight delivery. There is at least a possibility that what has long been the missing link in the peace chain –trust—can be forged, town by town, viagra sale, bit by bit. And it is not unreasonable to believe that such cooperation could be institutionalized if a viable Palestinian state were established, Purchase viagra online, and borders were fixed, with or without security barriers. Yes, we are a long way from moving from here to there, viagra online kaufen. Even one step in the right direction is better than standing still, or reeling backwards. Buy viagra overnight delivery, But the situations in Jenin and Gilboa are discomfiting to those who have convinced themselves that anyone connected with the Zionist entity cannot be trusted, and there is no future for Palestinians living next to –or within-- a majority-Jewish state. Köpa viagra, They don’t know how to cope with the news that Palestinians in what used to be a hotbed of West Bank radicalism are now trying to figure out how to work with, rather than against, their neighbors. They don’t know how to deal with an Israeli cabinet minister like Isaac Herzog, Om viagra online, a Zionist blue blood, who says every Israeli Jewish student should learn the Koran and that real quality of opportunity for all citizens of Israel –not just de jure equality—should be the norm. Pennsylvania PA Penn. , Something very similar happened in 2005, when the Rand Corporation released its fascinating proposal for a contiguous Palestinian state, where cities would be connected in an “arc” and linked by high-speed transportation. I’ve searched news archives to determine the reactions of one-state advocates and other critics of the Oslo process, California CA Calif. . There were a few objections, buy viagra overnight delivery. Mostly, there was silence. Ordering viagra from canada, The idea that a functioning Palestinian state was indeed possible, with enough planning and money and creativity, simply could not be acknowledged, let alone disputed.

It is, apparently, impossible for some to wrestle with –let alone overcome-- the instinct to sit in the dark and the gloom, furious about the past, convinced that mainstream Israeli Jews are constitutionally evil, natural-born oppressors who cannot be trusted. In my community, we are very familiar with this psychology. We encounter it all the time from those who say “the Arabs” will never stop trying to destroy "the Jews," and compares anyone who thinks otherwise to Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile, in Gilboa and Jenin, real people who live in the real, imperfect, but malleable world have important work to do.

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Cheap viagra over the counter, Last Monday evening, I decided not to give up hope for peace in the Middle East. Every honest person involved in this issue needs to consciously make that decision from time to time, Alaska AK , even when there is almost no rational basis for hope. The Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci, buy viagra, famously wrote of "pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will." When searching for shards of hope in the Middle East, Buy viagra pills, too often one needs to rely on optimism of the subconscious, a kind of elemental energy that keeps surging of its own volition, in defiance of unrelentingly bleak news, ordering viagra no prescription.

But sometimes there are more tangible reasons for optimism. Comprar viagra de descuento, This time, my reasons include a young Palestinian lawyer from Abu Dis, Abed Erekat, order viagra without prescription, and a young Israeli Peace Now organizer from Tel Aviv, Osta viagra online, Noa Epstein. Together, and with the help of New York City psychologist and Americans for Peace Now activist Warren Spielberg, they have reinvigorated Peace Now's Youth Dialogue Program, which offered hope in the 1990s but collapsed under the weight of the Intifadeh, cheap viagra over the counter. They shared their experiences with a small group at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York City, as they wound up a brief U.S, Jotta viagra verkossa. road show. Texas TX Tex. , Richard Greenberg of Washington Jewish WeeK saw them a few days before, and wrote;

The Israelis and the Palestinians have finally made peace.

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They negotiated under the supervision of two pragmatic optimists (one Arab, Hawaii HI , the other Jewish) connected with the Youth Dialogue program of the organization Peace Now..,demonstrating that an eventual resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not inconceivable, according to Noa Epstein, Oregon OR Ore. , the Israeli half of the partnership. Price of viagra, "The idea is not to lose hope," said Epstein, 25, kjøpe billig viagra, a full-time activities coordinator for Peace Now who has a degree in international relations from Hebrew University. Indiana IN Ind. , "If there is no hope, there is no point in staying in Israel. You have to cling to optimism and be an active optimist."

She works in conjunction with Abed Erekat, South Carolina SC S.C. , a 27-year-old lawyer who lives in the West Bank community of Abu Dis, Köpa billiga viagra, and whose command of English is not as accomplished as Epstein's. Erekat said negotiations (at any level) are important because they serve as "nonviolent resistance to the [Israeli] occupation." Asked if he, too, is optimistic, Erekat said: "Yes, but there must be a lot of work.., cheap viagra over the counter.

...The basic framework agreement the students hammered out last fall calls for a two-state solution to the conflict, with the borders of each state roughly coinciding with the 1967 lines of demarcation, buy viagra without prescription, according to Epstein. Virginia VA Va. , The Israelis and the Palestinians would each have a national capital in Jerusalem, with sovereignty of the Old City portion of Jerusalem being covered under a joint or international agreement.

In exchange for Israel removing its settlements in the territories and recognizing in principle the Palestinians' "right of return" to Israel proper, viagra prices, the Palestinians would not exercise that right. Billige viagra apotek, Palestinian refugees would be compensated financially, although the issue of Middle Eastern Jews who were displaced in 1948 and thereafter was not discussed, according to Epstein, order viagra online legally.

Cheap viagra over the counter, Nobody forced these college students to get together. They did it of their own accord. För viagra online, When I asked Erekat how they had managed to figure out the question of the refugees, which they addressed in a manner that is similar to the formula proposed in the Geneva Initiative, he said, halvalla viagra apteekki, "Palestinians are starting to look at the `right of return' as something impractical...We know we can't have millions of people return. Buy viagra cod, We can see from this group that there is a way to discuss this `red line.'"

Israelis, and their Diaspora supporters, need to start looking at how "impractical" it is to pretend there is a solution to this conflict without at least acknowledging the "principle" of the right of return, and without finding a way to acknowledge that Israel bears some reponsibility for the "Naqba," although the Arab states and Palestinian leadership at the time were hardly blameless.

In response to the previous post on this blog, Jonathan Mark and Richard Witty, along with a few others, went back and forth repeatedly about the refugee question. Jonathan believes the right of return is a non-starter and should be off the table completely, that Palestinians should be persuaded to accept the formula of "land for peace" and nothing else, cheap viagra over the counter. as if their narrative and their demand for an apology for what occured in 1948 can simply be wished away. Or, as our "Teddy" noted in his comment, "The apology and the acknowlegement are vitally important to the Palestinian people and the constant recitation of the other narrative, the Zionist narrative, is not going to change that."

At the other extreme are those who insist that an influx of Palestinian refugees to homes abandoned 60 years is a realistic optiion. It is easy to sit in the U.S. and make such pronouncements. Palestinians in Abu Dis and Ramallah and Israelis in Tel Aviv and Ashkelon do not have that luxury.

We might have to wait for another generation or two or three to figure this one out. But it is heartening to see that young people on both sides of the Green Line are forcing themselves to confront problems that most of their elders believe are either intractable or capable of being resolved by wishful thinking.

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Buy cheap viagra, At long last, the urgently-needed "J Street" project has been officially launched. It has generated a great deal of media attention, much of it positive, viagra prescription, but the most important story by far was in yesterday's Washington Post:

Some of the country's most prominent Jewish liberals are forming a political action committee and lobbying group aimed at dislodging what they consider the excessive hold of neoconservatives and evangelical Christians on U.S. Lowest price viagra, policy toward Israel.

The group is planning to channel political contributions to favored candidates in perhaps a half-dozen campaigns this fall, the first time an organization focused on Israel has tried to play such a direct role in the political process, ordering viagra online legally, according to its organizers. Comprare viagra sconto, Organizers said they hope those efforts, coupled with a separate lobbying group that will focus on promoting an Arab-Israeli peace settlement, will fill a void left by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Køb discount viagra, or AIPAC, Cheapest viagra prices, and other Jewish groups that they contend have tilted to the right in recent years.

The fact that it passed the Post's litmus test as a real story will prod the political elite to take notice, even before it accomplishes anything concrete. Of course, the fact that it is backed by some prominent Democratic donors and fundraisers is even more important, buy cheap viagra.

I am forced to restrain myself from writing too much on this initiative, buy cheap viagra. That is mostly because I am writing a book on the domestic political context of American Middle East policy, αγοράζουν online viagra, and I don't want to give away too much of what I've discovered in advance. Even if I wanted to, my publisher, ordering viagra without prescription, Potomac Books, Hawaii HI , wouldn't let me. But I have been observing the various phases J Street has gone through and know something about the attendant birth pains. Buy cheap viagra, Jeremy Ben-Ami (its executive director). Daniel Levy (the tireless Israeli peace promoter) and others who have worked so hard to make this happen deserve not just acclaim, viagra for sale, but gratitude from everyone who see no contradiction between being pro-Israeli, Viagra no prescription, pro-Palestinian and pro-American.

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Reading the front page of my Hebrew paper last weekend, Georgia GA Ga. , I tried to imagine an American senator saying something like, "I have great respect for the Israel Defense Forces. But eventually Israel will have to leave the West Bank, viagra pedido en línea. In its heart, Oklahoma OK Okla. , the Israeli nation has already decided. The Israeli army should not create a rift with Palestinians that haunts us for generations, buy cheap viagra. Think of Palestinians stripped at the checkpoints only because there might be terrorists among them. Think of those who stand for hours at checkpoints because we fear that a booby-trapped car could pass through."

I didn't have to make up that speech from scratch, comprar viagra de descuento, because I was reading about Ehud Olmert saying words very similar to a forum of IDF commanders in the West Bank. Buy cheap viagra online, The prime minister could say that despite their short-term security benefits, West Bank checkpoints have long-term moral and strategic costs for Israel. How many pro-Israel members of Congress fear that if they voiced the same concerns, South Dakota SD , AIPAC would soon be encouraging donations to their next primary opponent.

One of the most daunting challenges facing the American Jewish peace camp is that it is very difficult to give supporters concrete and useful things to do, Um viagra online, other than write a check to organizations within that peace camp, or support activists in Israel, or sign petitions and letters about legislation and other Beltway business, order viagra from canada. Buy cheap viagra, J Street is something else, something new. In addition to wandering around your search engine and reading all about it, Köpa viagra, please please please make sure to go to its web site and help it succeed.

Kevin, MM, cheapest viagra in the world, John Sinclair, Delaware DE Del. , and all of the other contributors who have never met a Zionist you could tolerate, I don't want you to feel excluded. Please tell us if you think this initiative is misguided, ordering viagra overnight delivery. And if you believe it is, please suggest another political path, another way to get from A [the intolerable status quo] to B [an end to Palestinian suffering].

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Ordering viagra online legally, What are the mainstream American Jewish organizations going to say if Israel releases a convicted murderer who is one of the Palestinians' most powerful advocates of peace and a two-state solution.

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"Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer on Saturday said that if Israel were interested in achieving peace, it had no choice but to free jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, acquistare a buon mercato viagra. `Current negotiations [between Israel and the Palestinian Authority] are only virtual negotiations, Order viagra online legally, " Ben-Eliezer said, adding "only the release of Barghouti could change things around."

Asked about the current Palestinian leadership, Ben-Eliezer said "I have great respect for [Mahmoud] Abbas and Salam Fayad, California CA Calif. , but everything is now in the hands of Hamas. Viagra, At this rate Hamas will soon take over the West Bank. The only person who could put a stop to that is Barghouti."

Ben-Eliezer is known for having loose lips and a lack of self-control in his public statements, but he is a minister in the Kadima government, Virginia VA Va. , and it is hard to believe that Olmert and his people, Cheap viagra online without prescription, or Livne and her people, were not aware that he was going to make these remarks. They come on the heels of reports that negotiators for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive since the summer of 2006, are now discussing a Shalit-Barghouti swap, ordering viagra online legally.

Furthermore, Køb discount viagra, former prime ministerial candidate and Labor activist Amir Peretz is launching a campaign to free Barghouti, Kopen goedkope viagra, whose letter touting peace and a two-state solution was read aloud at a rally marking Peace Now's 30th anniversary on Tuesday.

Barghouti refused to cooperate in legal proceedings that sentenced him to life for five murders. He was one of the leading forces behind the "Prisoners' Document, cheap viagra no rx," drafted with the participation of Hamas prisoners, North Dakota ND , which called for a two-state solution and negotiations leading to a comprehensive peace. As a veteran of the first intifadeh and leader of the Tanzim, Fateh militants in the West Bank, köpa viagra online, he has the military credentials and, Købe viagra online, more importantly, the grassroots constituency that Mahmoud Abbas lacks.

There has already been a reaction from something called the Ordering viagra online legally, Israel Hasbara Committee, which called Peace Now a "far leftist organization" and responded to the Barghouti letter by citing a recent poll in which a majority of Palestinians backed violence. (An aside: in Israel, pharmacy viagra, the real far left is anti-Zionist, Buy viagra c.o.d., and does not count Peace Now among its allies, to say the least. I wonder what these people would call University of Haifa professor Ilan Pappe, viagra ordine on-line, whose latest book is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Arizona AZ Ariz. , An "infinitely distant leftist?").

No doubt the Israeli and pro-Israeli right will keep asserting that "we have seen this movie before, the decision to talk to Arafat and give him a base in the territories was an unmitigated disaster, buy viagra online, Barghouti is a wolf in sheep's clothihg, Iowa IA , all Palestinian leaders --Abbas included-- are wolves in sheep's clothing, freeing someone with `blood on his hands' will send a message that violence against Israelis will go unpunished, the only solution is to, Indiana IN Ind. , uh, Om viagra online, well, we don't really have a solution, don't change the subject..."

But what will the more centrist and center-right American Jewish organizations (like American Jewish Committee or ADL) say and do if the Olmert government, Pennsylvania PA Penn. , understanding that the current stand-off with an increasingly popular Hamas is accomplishing nothing, Lowest price viagra, makes a brave choice, and sets Barghouti free. What will the Conference of Presidents do, ordering viagra online legally. Will they react the same way they reacted to the Oslo accords, Montana MT Mont. , and give tepid, South Carolina SC S.C. , unenthusiastic backing to what was essentially a courageous experiment. Will Jewish centrists stand up to their right wing as fervently as they have stood up to the non-Zionist and anti-Zionist left in this country and in Europe.

Let us hope they are faced with such a choice, osta alennus viagra. How many times have we heard that what the Palestinians need is a Nelson Mandela, a leader who could both unite them and be a partner for the painful, complex negotiations necessary to free both peoples from an intolerable status quo. Ordering viagra online legally, It is impossible to say with certainty that Barghouti could play a comparable role. It is possible to say with certainty that unless something dramatic occurs and Palestinians have a government with the ability to enforce a compromise --with Hamas' cooperation, however begrudging-- the current negotiations between the PA and Israel will not change the tragic facts on the ground. Without an enforceable compromise, we will never wake up from this nightmare. There is a chance, albeit slim, that Barghouti could help Abbas deliver an agreement that the Palestinians could conceivably accept, and then help to make it stick. It is certainly worth a try.

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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One of the measures I am using to judge candidates is not only who is most likely to have a robust, buy viagra pills, Om viagra online, creative and at least occasionally evenhanded Middle East policy, but also who is most likely to treat the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a high priority from their first day in office, viagra generic. Viagra discount, In "Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace --American Leadership in the Middle East" published by the U.S. Institute of Peace, where to buy cheap viagra, Ordering viagra from canada, Daniel Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky have offered a host of concrete, practical suggestions to the next administration, order viagra no prescription, Viagra cheap, based on interviews with dozens of diplomats and others who know what they are talking about. Several of their recommendations require a commitment to putting the issue on the front burner and keeping it there:

1) The president needs to adopt a hands-on policy from the beginning of his/her term, purchase viagra. The Arab-Israeli question ought to figure prominently in an early presidential speech, cheap viagra, Order viagra online, sending a loud and clear signal that the issue is high on the agenda.

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Purchase viagra, Interestingly, Obama's campaign manager, David Axelrod, appears to agree with Kurtzer/Lasensky, based on an interview with Roger Cohen in the NY Times last month ("No Manchurian Candidate," 2/11/2008):

Foreign policy will roar back once this is a straight Republican-Democrat fight. A Democrat who’s going to win has be strong on core American defense principles, cheap viagra, Idaho ID , which include Israel’s security.

Obama feels Israel in his kishkas, cheap viagra online, Köpa billiga viagra, all right. Equally, cheapest viagra, Ohio OH , he feels dialogue, which has been his way of getting things done since he became a Chicago community organizer in the 1980s, viagra online cheap. Order viagra, There would be no six-year time-outs on Israel-Palestine under an Obama presidency. “He’d be actively involved from day one,” said Axelrod.

That does not mean that Hillary or McCain disagree, purchase viagra. We just haven't heard from their campaigns about the extent to which the conflict will be an early, and high, priority. But we do know that Hillary's foreign policy advisors who are actively campaigning for her include the estimable Mara Rudman, former NSC Chief of Staff and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Clinton Administration. She is clearly an advocate of vigorous American engagement in the region (and on the board of Americans for Peace Now)...

Anyone else have tea leaf readings, inflections, dreams or visions that are worth sharing.

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"Clinton campaign operatives have sent around negative material about Obama's relations with Israel, according to e-mails obtained by NEWSWEEK. In addition to Brzezinski, the e-mails attack Obama advisers such as Rob Malley, Missouri MO Mo. , a former Clinton negotiator at the 2000 Camp David talks who has since written articles sympathetic to the Palestinian point of view... αγοράζουν φτηνά viagra, ...In one case, Daphna Ziman, a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton's who has co-chaired several events for her, Connecticut CT Conn. , forwarded an e-mail from the Republican Jewish Coalition, Utah UT , a grass-roots GOP group, criticizing Obama for proposing a Muslim summit. In a Jan, Tennessee TN Tenn. . 31 interview with Paris Match, Generic viagra, Obama said he wanted "an honest discussion about ways to bridge the gap that grows between Muslims and the West." Ziman, in her Feb. 2 e-mail, responded, "I am horrified at Mr, online viagra. Obama's point of view." Her e-mail, viagra prescription, sent to a group including Mike Medavoy, Nevada NV Nev. , a Hollywood producer who supports Obama, contained a press release from RJC executive director Matt Brooks. "Nowhere in the Paris Match article does Senator Obama affirm Israel's right to exist, viagra without a prescription," Brooks wrote. Purchase viagra, (Ziman says "the campaign had nothing to do with" her e-mail.)

In an e-mail sent Feb. 4—a day before Super Tuesday—Clinton finance official Annie Totah passed along a critical essay by Ed Lasky, a conservative blogger whose own anti-Obama e-mails have circulated in the U.S, Delaware DE Del. . Online viagra, Jewish community. Totah wrote: "Please read the attached important and very disturbing article on Barak Obama. Farmacia viagra baratos, Please vote wisely in the Primaries." (She didn't respond to a request for comment.)

Richard Silverstein in Tikun Olam ably expresses the rage I felt upon learning this news. Check out his call for the Clinton campaign "to renounce this ugly feature of their campaign. I note with most severe censure that when the Newsweek journalists gave Howard Wolfson an opportunity to comment for the article he declined."

But what has gone unnoticed in this fracas is that at least some of Hillary's Jewish supporters, comprar viagra, including reasonably well-connected fundraisers and volunteers, Acheter viagra bon marché, AGREE WITH ROB MALLEY. They share his take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and don't want that conflict to be a zero sum game, online viagra. They want American policy in the Middle East to be evenhanded. They also agree with Obama that the U.S, αγοράσετε viagra. should not shirk from talking to Syria and Iran. Viagra online kopen, I won't name names, but trust me on this one. Online viagra, I know a few of them and I am sure there are many more I've never met They are supporters of Americans for Peace Now, Israel Policy Forum. They agree with most of the op-eds they read in Haaretz, New York NY N.Y. . Some were Friends of Bill and continue to be Friends of Hillary. Kjøp Discount viagra, It isn't clear whether they have weighed in and told the people running the campaign that borrowing from the rhetoric of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and using the most dumbed-down, far right definitions of what it means to be "pro-Israel, viagra kopen," are beyond the pale. Where to buy viagra, I confess that I have been afraid to ask the ones I know because I don't want to put them in the uncomfortable position of saying all is fair in politics, Hillary needs to pull out every conceivable stop to come from behind, and so they have kept quiet, billig kaufen viagra, they have let the attack dogs run wild. Perhaps that is not true, online viagra. New Mexico NM N.Mex. , Perhaps they have raised objections. Perhaps there has been a furious internal debate in the campaign and these tactics will end. Or perhaps they are not influential enough, comprar viagra baratos, when all is said and done, Pharmacy viagra, to spark such a debate.

Regardless, the question remains, viagra pharmacy, if Obama wins the nomination, will they come out of the shadows and defend him from the attacks that are sure to come from Republicans. Online viagra, Will they defend Rob Malley and Susan Rice, or at least the positions the two of them espouse. Will they urge Obama to do everything possible to wade into the region and mediate and arbitrate, and, if necessary, employ both sticks and carrots when dealing with Israel as well as its neighbors. Will they defend Rashid Khalidi, the relatively moderate scholar who is the latest object of gibes from Obama bashers because he has dared to be a Palestinian nationalist, as Tikun Olam also reports . Will they try to wrest control of the rules of the public debate on Middle East policy from the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd.

I am crossing my pro-American, pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian fingers.

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008

James Besser has a balanced and informative piece on the ongoing Rob Malley fracas Cheapest viagra in the world, in New York Jewish Week. Among other things, αγοράσετε viagra έκπτωση, Buy cheap viagra, we learn that the offensive smear campaign against Malley and, by extension, viagra farmacia a buon mercato, Osta viagra online, Obama has not abated: "In the days leading up to this week’s Democratic primary in Maryland, Jewish voters in Baltimore and the Maryland suburbs of Washington began getting e-mails warning that Sen, buy viagra overnight delivery. Viagra, Barack Obama is being influenced by “anti-Israel” advisers, and pointing to one in particular: former Clinton administration official Robert Malley."

Some of Malley's former government colleagues have decided they are going to weigh in and defend Malley in the public arena, order viagra overnight delivery. Massachusetts MA Mass. , I've been forwarded a copy of a statement they have signed. If there are people you know who might be susceptible to the smear campaign, Montana MT Mont. , Mississippi MS Miss. , please let them know what Berger, Indyk, buy viagra no rx, West Virginia WV W.Va. , Kurtzer, Miller and Ross have to say:

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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I was so mortified by the bile that prompted the previous post that I somehow missed a clarification in Politico Farmacia viagra baratos, . Rhode Island RI R.I. , This is why they invented newpaper editors and why the blogosphere is out of control:

An Obama spokesman, Tommy Vietor, cheap viagra from canada, Buy viagra without prescription, says, "Rob Malley has no day-to-day advisory role in the Obama campaign, Virginia VA Va. . South Dakota SD , He is among many people who has given his advice to the campaign. The actual day-to-day Middle East advisor is Dan Shapiro."

Marty Peretz -- in his defense of Obama on Israel -- accepts the Obama explanation, Koop korting viagra. Pennsylvania PA Penn. , Per Peretz:

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So now we have an interesting dilemma, the kind they probably don't teach in journalism school yet, cheap viagra overnight delivery. Cheap viagra online, Should I just delete the entire previous post. The arguments are still valid, and the attacks on Malley, including the latest from Peretz, are still very creepy, farmacia viagra baratos. But in its own small way, order viagra without prescription, Köpa rabatterade viagra, does the previous post call attention to accusations that otherwise will not be noticed. Does it keep alive a controversy about the Obama campaign that should be left for dead, Wyoming WY Wyo. . Acquistare online viagra, Does this post make matters worse.

Or should both posts remain on "Realistic Dove" because false charges and unfair characterizations don't vanish from the digital world, they are perpetually reified by the search engines and forwarded emails, and at least a few people need to answer them so that inquiring minds can find alternative perspectives.

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Friday, February 1st, 2008

Lowest price viagra, Unable to find anything in his past to prove that Barack Obama will sell Israel down the river, right wing bloggers in my community are now focusing on one of his Middle East advisors, Robert Malley. Malley served various roles in the Clinton Administration and was President Clinton's special assistant during the Camp David talks, φτηνές φαρμακείο viagra. Order viagra, Ed Lasky's character assassination of Malley in American Thinker spews accusations that are being echoed all over the right wing Zionist blogosphere. Normally, comprare viagra sconto, New Hampshire NH N.H. , I don't worry about what Lasky and other contributors to American Thinker have to say. Some of them make Bill Krystal seem like a member of the War Resisters League, cheap generic viagra, California CA Calif. , or a Deadhead. But someone needs to address the current, vile frenzy to use Malley as the Willy Horton of Likud sympathizers and those much further to the right, lowest price viagra.

Normally, viagra en ligne afin, Iowa IA , it is best not to call attention to the irrational bile that often passes for analysis when Israel is discussed in the digital world. But Lasky's article is extensively quoted by the Greater-Israel-right-or-wrong crowd, generic viagra. Arkansas AR Ark. , One can find posts entitled "OBAMA IS FUNDING TERRORIST.....this MUST STOP" and "Obama's Pro-Terrorist Foreign Policy Advisor," which opens with "Robert O'Malley [sic] goes past appeasement, cheap viagra tablets, Order viagra online, directly to alliance with terrorists out to destroy Israel."

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Malley has seemingly followed in his father's footsteps: he represents the next generation of anti-Israel activism, viagra pharmacy. Order viagra no rx, Through his writings he has served as a willing propagandist, bending the truth (and more) to serve an agenda that is marked by anti-Israel bias...Robert Malley's writings strike me as being akin to propaganda, order viagra online. Buy viagra cheap, One notable example is an op-ed that was published in the New York Times (Fictions About the Failure at Camp David). The column indicted Israel for not being generous enough at Camp David and blamed the failure of the talks on the Israelis, purchase viagra.

The column did no such thing, of course, lowest price viagra. Cheap viagra online without prescription, Read it youself. Malley overturned conventional wisdom by blaming everyone, order viagra overnight delivery, including the Palestinians, for missing a historic opportunity.

Lasky's piece is quite instructive, because each and every article by Malley that he deems to be anti-Israel propaganda is precisely the kind of article Israel needs. His writing is balanced, evenhanded, refusing to rely on received wisdom when dealing with a conflict that both sides must take responsiblity for inflaming. Lowest price viagra, He comes across as very...reasonable. We have reached the point where anyone who tries to be cool and level-headed about the conflict is absolutely terrifying to those who think of it as a zero sum, Manichean game.

I don't know Malley well but I do know that in the Clinton Administration, his "agenda" was to promote and protect America's best interests. Those interests --and indeed, Israel's interests--will be well-served if the next president uses America's leverage with both sides, rather than just one side, to help them solve a conflict they cannot possibly solve by themselves.

There is no way to stop anyone from saying anything they want about Rob Malley in the lawless, rhetorical wild wild west of the blogosphere. But I hope Obama's campaign does not take the bait and disassociate itself from Malley. And if this smear campaign continues, I hope the mainstream American Jewish community will rise to Malley's defense, just as they did for Obama.

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