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Schanzer's main beef is that "Fleshler contradicts himself throughout the book."

Here is an example of what Schanzer seems to believe is a contradiction: "Fleshler insists that Israel has a right to defend itself, Pennsylvania PA Penn. , but castigates it for its "appallingly disproportionate response to Hamas rocket fire' during Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 and January 2009."

In other words, Michigan MI Mich. , if you assert that Israel had the right to defend itself from Hamas rockets, the only recourse you could possibly support is "Operation Cast Lead." There is literally no room in this mindset for any other approach. Schanzer doesn't merely disagree with alternatives; he acts as if those alternatives don't exist, buy viagra free samples cod.

Another one: "[Fleshler] admits that the `combination of Hamas, Osta viagra free samples online, Hizbullah in Lebanon and, Buy viagra free samples, of course, Iran's reckless president and nuclear program' has provided ample reason to believe 1938-type dangers loom for Israel. Yet he sneers at the `hawkish tilt' of Jewish groups that seek to impose a blockade on Iran until it halts its illicit activities."

In my book, buy viagra free samples no rx, I identified and sought to explain Jewish fears, Acheter viagra free samples discount, and indicated that the dangers Israel faced were real. But I pointed out that there were other approaches to Iran besides the confrontational tack of the Bush administration, such as those of Trita Parsi and Shlomo Ben-Ami, kopen goedkope viagra free samples. And I lamented the fact that those approaches weren't even on the radar screen of the organized American Jewish community. Buy viagra free samples cod, But in the world according to Schanzer and his mentors, you cannot possibly be worried about Iran unless you want American warships to enforce a blockade. Buy viagra free samples overnight delivery, And here is his summary: "In a nutshell, Fleshler wants Israel to cough up territory and make other concessions to the Palestinians, even if there is no reciprocity, Delaware DE Del. , simply because he thinks it's the right thing to do. Virginia VA Va. , And he thinks that America needs to force Israel to make these concessions."

Nope. The book asserts that both sides eventually need to compromise to stave off utter disaster. There is nothing in there about Israel relinquishing territory without reciprocity, or forcing Israel to make concessions. But perhaps he believes that I actually did advocate those things, buy viagra free samples cod. Perhaps when he is confronted with anyone who searches for a middle ground, an alarmist part of his brain clicks in and convinces him that he is confronted with a complete capitulationist. Because there is no middle ground in his world, no room for subtlety or diplomatic nuance.

Doesn't this sound painfully familiar. This is the school of bludgeoning bone-headed militarism, of Shock and Awe, of all sticks and no carrots, with the credo of shoot-first-and-worry-about-the-TV-cameras-later. It failed so miserably, one would think its advocates would at least keep quiet until they came up with something better. But, apparently, this is the best they can do.

I suppose it's good news that they can't come up with anything new to refute Obama's more reasonable approach to the world, which my book supports. But the bad news is that this mentality is still popular within vocal, still-powerful segments of the American Jewish community

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The story was picked up yesterday in Haaretz and elsewhere in the Israeli media, but has not gotten the attention it deserves in the U.S, buy viagra cheap. För viagra online, From the APN blurb:

"In an interview with APN spokesman Ori Nir, Ambassador Moustapha said that the current talks between Israel and Syria are "a historic opportunity of making peace with not only Syria and Lebanon, buy viagra pills, Osta alennus viagra, because we believe that in a way or another Syria plays the role of a gatekeeper between Israel and the Arab world..."

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No doubt this will be dismissed as tawdry propaganda by those pro-Israel activists who have never met a peace plan they could live with, Jotta viagra verkossa. Montana MT Mont. , But why in the world would the Ambassador say those things if Syria weren't EAGER for a historic settlement. Someone who has been involved in the Track 3 diplomacy that has moved these talks along told me that a Syria-Israel pact is "low hanging fruit." The U.S, viagra online. Connecticut CT Conn. , is obviously kept apprised of the ongoing negotiations, and is conveying messages, as needed, to Syria as well as Israel. But it is not merely unconscionable that the U.S. isn't at the table, in the full view of the international community, offering to help in every way possible; it is truly insane.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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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And what they did to the socialist experiment in Nicaragua is never mentioned. And the way some of them publicly REJOICED when Allende was overthrown by the CIA, is never mentioned.

All that matters, apparently, is blaming officials who thought American and Israeli interests were identical, and tossing out accusations --again, with no proof- that their sentiments about Israel are what motivated them to get us into the mess we are in. That wonderful phrase, "anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools," is not precisely applicable here. Phil Weiss is no anti-Semite and he is no fool, and I believe the same thing can be said about at least some of the people who regularly comment on his blog. But the spirit of that phrase, the notion of political energies being misdirected and utterly wasted, resonates with me tonight.

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