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Order propecia online cheap, Several recent posts on MondoWeiss decry the fact that the overwhelming majority of attendees at the recent J Street conference were (horror of horrors!) Jews, or that they looked at the conflict through a distinctly (gasp!) Jewish prism and dared to discuss (how appalling!) Jewish values.

Lynn Gottleib asks "do we really need another Jewish only road?"

J Street was a place where Jews talked to Jews about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Cheap propecia no rx, Few Palestinians were present. Apparently they didn’t make it through the checkpoint. The narrative of J Street, Hawaii HI , like most Jewish narratives about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Massachusetts MA Mass. , reflects the nature of the conflict as seen through a Jewish lens: Palestinians are physically absent. A Jew who seeks to express her activism in solidarity with Palestinians is in danger of loosing her ‘I love Israel’ card at a mainstream Jewish checkpoint, order propecia online cheap. There were checkpoints at J Street.

...How can we think that calling together 1, propecia online kaufen,500 Jewish progressives with few Palestinians present will yield a realistic picture of how and what kind of struggle we might conduct in the name of peace. Wisconsin WI Wis. , Only in partnership with Palestinians can we ever hope to transform the current conflict.

Philip Weiss concurs:

[T]his conversation (Israel/Palestine) also taps into Arab-Americans’ deepest personal feelings of family, history and community, as Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb reminded us, ordering propecia online legally. But they had a lesser role in the conference, South Dakota SD , just as they have no role in the political force that J Street says it’s taking on...I remember that American blacks played a key role in ending apartheid in South Africa, out of solidarity. Order propecia online cheap, J Street is not including the Palestinian solidarity folks this time around. And just imagine if Palestinians were included, California CA Calif. . J Street would have to change its line on Goldstone.

How can I count the ways in which this premise is wrongheaded. παραγγείλετε online propecia, It ignores the political reality in Washington, where, like it or not, ordering propecia online cheap, identity politics is a game that must be played. Købe propecia, For years, the political elite believed that just one segment of the American Jewish community --the conventional Israel lobby-- was politically consequential. To develop a political counterweight, it is essential to show them that there are Jewish voters and Jewish donors who disagree with that lobby on some--although not all--points, order propecia online cheap. That was the purpose of the conference, goedkope propecia apotheek. It was not intended to take on the MUCH harder task of forging a broad-based movement with Palestinians. Online propecia, These criticisms are the expressions of people who have no practical responsibility for organizing anything other than their own thoughts. Their complaints boil down to the idea that the J Street ccnference, one of the most ambitious political undertakings in my memory, generic propecia, was simply not ambitious ENOUGH.
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Also, Cheapest propecia prices, Weiss ignores the fact that, just before the conference, American Jewish leaders under the auspices of J Street met with Arab American leaders gathered together for a conference of the Arab American Institute, propecia prices. I was there. There were heartfelt pledges to work together, order propecia online cheap. Propecia sale, It was stirring. It offered hope for just the sort of "movement" Weiss wants. Would he also criticize the AAI for meeting separately, New Mexico NM N.Mex. .

These objections against a conference of Jews betray something deeper, Buy propecia without prescription, I think, something more than just a practical objection to the organizing principles of one event. Order propecia online cheap, They betray a discomfort and sometimes even an outright hostility to the very idea of a Jewish people, of Jewish community, of Jewish bonds. That is one of the recurring themes in Philip Weiss' commentaries and in the expressed sentiments of too many far leftists when they look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ordering propecia no rx. In other commentaries on the J Street conference, Osta alennus propecia, Weiss complained about all the "handwringing" and the agonized conversations about the impact of events in the Middle East on "Jewish identity." He and his fans have no patience or tolerance for anyone who cares about Jewish identity while Palestinians are stranded at West Bank checkpoints or boycotted in Gaza. Figuring out who we are, and our place in the cosmos, Køb billige propecia, and the nature of our own community, New Hampshire NH N.H. , is treated as a kind of bourgeois indulgence rather than a critically important step in the process of making common cause with others.

I've noted this before. One of the best posts on this blog was an early one called "The far left's discomfort with Jewish identity." A brief excerpt:

Identifying oneself as part of the Jewish people is an expression of a simple, deep-seated human yearning for community, for ties with those outside of ourselves, order propecia online cheap. What is wrong with that?...

...To most American Jews, the quest to define their Jewish identity and find solace in Jewish community is one way to remain sane and whole. To many of them, it also involves an embrace of principles rooted in ancient texts that, in fact, were the first to articulate many of the values that Phil Weiss and the modern left also embrace, including the injunctions to welcome strangers, pursue justice and “seek peace and pursue it.”

Much of my own Jewish identity is defined by an effort to fix what is broken in Israel and Palestine. This effort involves participation in a global community of progressive Zionists who are fighting settlement expansion, urging the Israeli government to stop taking steps that could preclude a 2-state solution and trying to build alternatives to the conventional pro-Israel lobby in America. If the price of building a community that can achieve those ends is a certain amount of parochialism, I’ll pay it.

Without a certain amount of parochialism, in fact, without the angry sense that human rights violations in the territories are perpetrated in our name, without the conviction that the Jewish community--OUR community--has been misrepresented in DC for far too long, the movement to circumvent the conventional Israel lobby would be less motivated, less effective. And, in the long run, that will hurt the Palestinian cause.

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The latest tussle was prompted by a statement about Jerusalem last week from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, cheapest soma, Kentucky KY Ky. , the most important umbrella group in the community. That statement, comprar en línea soma, Idaho ID , addressing the controversy over East Jerusalem housing that I've covered in previous posts, was right out of Netanyahu's playbook, buy soma cod. Soma without prescription, It asserted that:

"The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has long advocated and supported the unity of Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel, buy soma overnight delivery. Wyoming WY Wyo. , As such, we believe that legal construction by residents of the city should be allowed as long as it is in keeping with the standards and requirements of the municipality and the national government, order soma online without prescription. We find disturbing the objections raised to the proposed construction of residential units on property that was legally purchased and approved by the appropriate authorities..., buy soma. Buy soma pills, As a united city, Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab residents should be permitted to reside wherever legal and security requirements allow, bestill soma online. Order soma from canada, Hundreds of Arab families have moved into Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the same right should be accorded to Jewish residents in live where they choose in Jerusalem."

The last sentence is classic, Jewish Orwellian doublespeak, New Mexico NM N.Mex. . Comprar soma, It implies that if diplomatically provocative housing built by a right wing American Jew in East Jerusalem were thwarted, somehow Jews would be denied a "right" that is afforded to Arabs in Jerusalem, Montana MT Mont. . Maine ME Me. , The idea that Arabs can easily live in West Jerusalem, which was promoted by Netanyahu, Alaska AK , Pharmacy soma, is hogwash.

The JTA's Eric Fingerhut Buy soma, buries the lead, but sums up the squabble that has ensued:

Five left-leaning pro-Israel organizations have teamed up to release a statement on Jerusalem that backs the Obama administration's opposition to "unilateral actions" in the city and criticizes others for not sticking to "facts and law" when making arguments about Israeli construction there.

The statement from Ameinu, acheter soma bon marché, Lowest price soma, Americans for Peace Now, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, buy cheap soma online, Osta soma, Meretz USA, and J Street says that "issues of borders and sovereignty related to Jerusalem should be determined through negotiations in the context of a regional, buy soma c.o.d., Where to buy cheap soma, comprehensive resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict" and "unilateral actions that inflame tensions, impair negotiations and make the ultimate resolution of issues surrounding Jerusalem more difficult, φτηνές φαρμακείο soma, are unhelpful and should be avoided at this particularly sensitive moment" -- adding that they support the Obama administration's policy on this issue....

The five organizations also slammed those who have defended Israel's right to build in the area. urging that "those who choose to enter the debate on Jerusalem do so carefully and with arguments based on facts and law - not ideology. For instance, it is a matter of law and of fact that Arab residents of East Jerusalem do not have the right to purchase state-owned property in West Jerusalem - and the overwhelming majority of all land in Israel is state- owned. Claims that somehow Jerusalem's Arab residents currently have the same rights to live where they choose as Jewish residents are simply untrue and provide an inaccurate picture of a city that remains divided based on ethnicity, religion and geography."

The statement appears to be somewhat of a response to a statement issued last week by the Conference of Presidents on the Jerusalem issue. Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu are members of the conference but say they were not consulted about that statement.

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In contrast, kjøpe clomid online, while I am in the camp that wants Obama to have the political wiggle room to take a fair, Rhode Island RI R.I. , evenhanded approach to the conflict, I hope that Netanyahu will NOT put Obama in a position where the President is forced to "get tough" with Israel. Like others on the pro-Israel left, I believe there is no chance to unravel the Gordian knot of the Israel-Palestinian conflict without bold American diplomacy, and the U.S, order clomid. must insist that the settlements project comes to a dead-stop even as it presses for an end to Palestinian violence and incitement, clomid online.

But that doesn't mean that I and my fellow travellers in Americans for Peace Now, Ordering clomid without prescription, J Street, Israel Policy Forum, Ameinu and Brit Tzedek v’Shalom will be happy if the U.S, California CA Calif. . is forced to exercise tough love. Generic clomid, If a bitter public confrontation has to happen, so be it. Order clomid, But it will hurt, in the same way that it hurts to argue bitterly with a recalcitrant family member.

Israeli pundits on the right do not seem to understand this, ordering clomid online legally. Nor do they understand what the pro-Israel peace camp in the U.S. Order clomid without prescription, is advocating. They seem to believe we would be delighted by a confrontation and are rooting for it because of our hostility to the very idea of Israel, and our ardent desire for it to make one-sided concessions, buy clomid cod. A column in the Jerusalem Post on this topic by Lenny Ben-David was entitled, "Rapture over the Rupture." A diatribe from Isi Liebler calls us “fake Zionists “and expresses outrage at “the favorable media exposure provided to fringe groups…, whose prime objective is to ‘balance’ AIPAC activities by lobbying the Obama administration to force Israel to make further unilateral concessions.”

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In my book, Osta alennus clomid, a whole chapter is devoted to interviews with a broad range of Israelis who favor various forms of interventionist American diplomacy, including former diplomats and officials like Shlomo Ben-Ami, David Kimche, αγοράζουν online clomid, Daniel Levy and Ephraim Sneh. Cheap clomid online cheap, None of them want the U.S. to sell Israel down the river by compromising its core security requirements or forcing it to make unilateral concessions; all of them want America to stop both sides from taking steps that will destroy the possibility of a two state solution, and to come up with creative proposals to bridge the gaps between them, Illinois IL Ill. . Order clomid, But even if Israelis feel that way, we are not permitted to, according to the Israel-must-be-left-alone crowd. Moreover, Florida FL Fla. , the fact that we are Americans who believe it is in our own nation’s interests to bolster the forces of moderation in the Middle East is an inconvenient truth they don’t even mention.

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If my camp's sentiments and ideas are mercilessly bashed by both the Jewish right and the far left, it is a good sign that the sentiments are justifiable and the ideas have merit.

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Trying to tell the story so that both sides can hear it in the same way feels more and more to me like a Greek tragedy in which I play the despised chorus, ordering viagra online. Ordering viagra overnight delivery, It feels like I am only fanning the flames, adding to the misunderstandings and mutual antagonism with every word I write because the fervent inner voice of each side is so loud that it drowns everything else out.

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Now, there are people I respect who believe that, despite the terrible price paid by Palestinians in Gaza, Israel was doing what it had to do. Cheap viagra without prescription, There are others who are simply too uncertain to form an opinion, who didn't and still don't know what to think. But I know for a fact that within the mainstream American Jewish community, within Reform synagogues, Jewish charitable federations and other groups, there are people who did not support Israel's military tactics and its approach to the complex challenge of Hamas. And these people chose to stay behind the circle of communal wagons rather than venturing forward.

Sure, the MSM is important. What is more important is that too many American Jews allowed supporters of the war in our community to speak for them, even though they were horrified by what the MSM told them about the attack on Gaza, even though they didn't accept the version of reality that was filtered and then conveyed by Israel's spin machine.

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But as Jews of different religious persuasions, from Orthodox to secular atheist, we are especially horrified that a state that purports to speak in our name wages a military campaign that has killed over 1,000 people, a large percentage of them civilians, children, and non-combatants, with little or no consideration for human rights or the laws of war, viagra. Mississippi MS Miss. , While the moral and legal issue concerning Israel’s right to respond militarily in these circumstance can be debated, there is near-universal agreement that its conduct of the military operation has been unjust and even criminal – with only the usual apologists for the Jewish state disagreeing.

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As Jews, we stand united with the Jewish sages who rejected the zealotry of the Jewish “terrorists” at Masada, those who masked ethnic tribalism in the cloak of “self-defense” and “national honor.”

As Jews, we listen not only when the sage Hillel says, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” but also when he says, “If I am only for myself, what am I?” Hillel’s closing words also ring true in this hour of decision when a ceasefire is demanded of both sides: “If not now, when?”

Finally, as American Jewish progressives, and as human beings, we condemn Hamas and Israel for violating the human rights of civilians on both sides, although we do not necessarily declare these violations to be morally or legally equivalent. We affirm the rights of both Israeli and the Palestinian peoples to self-determination and self-defense, as we affirm the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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In a post Buy viagra online, that recounts an Israel Policy Forum dinner that I also attended (hat tip to Richard Witty), Philip Weiss describes his joy at discovering what has been available for years, waiting for him to encounter it: a community of American Jews who care about Israel, who consider themselves part of the Israel lobby in its broadest sense, who abhor the occupation as much as he does, and therefore want to press for the kind of active American diplomacy that will rescue both Palestinians and Israelis. Buy viagra overnight delivery, Among other things, Weiss declares his support for a 2-state solution after remaining agnostic about it, ordering viagra online. Louisiana LA , That, too, cheap viagra online, Virginia VA Va. , is heartwarming news for those of us who've been squabbling with American leftists who keep encouraging the unrealistic dream of a single bi-national state, and, viagra online stores, Buy viagra c.o.d., in doing so, prolong Palestinian suffering by keeping alive the delusion that somehow the Jewish state will vanish, North Dakota ND . Michigan MI Mich. , Some of these people, who congregate on Phil's blog, Jotta viagra verkossa, Wyoming WY Wyo. , are wont to pour out venom against anything and everything remotely connected to Israel and American Jewry, and in some cases resent and reject the very idea of a Jewish people, online viagra. Order viagra c.o.d., Here is Phil's holiday gift:

There was throughout the evening the strong feeling...that Yes there is an Israel lobby, and it is many of the people in this room, buy viagra cod, Cheapest viagra prices, and the time has come to take your foot off the breathing tube of the Palestinians. It was a wonderful evening because here was a strongly Jewish and Zionist audience but it was willing to hear from Arabs and Arabists, buy viagra online. There was no noxious whiff of stinking neoconservatism the whole night, For viagra online. Cheap viagra without prescription, God bless. There was also the strong sense that without the American Jewish community allowing Washington to become more independent, kopen goedkope viagra, Hawaii HI , this moment will be lost. Israelis and the Palestinians cannot do this on their own, acheter viagra discount, Köpa rabatterade viagra, they require muscling intervention... Buy viagra online, ...I have been to many Jewish leadership events where I am angered and saddened. At this one I was in tears, order viagra cod. Cheap viagra pills, What a glory to my community that it is capable of such recognitions. There was an atmosphere of worldliness and real leadership at the event, Rhode Island RI R.I. , Illinois IL Ill. , and a feeling that Jews know that they are powerful in American society, and that brings responsibility, not self-regard...

...I was converted to the two state solution, with an asterisk. I never imbibed the Zionist dream; and the dream..of maintaining a Jewish state in part of Eretz Israel...is not something I really care about, or that I think most Americans ought to care about...And yet the real dream that realistic Americans must seize now is an end to the cycle of violence, a dream of regional cooperation and interdependence, and this was the imperative of the IPF event, buy viagra online. Two states are a necessary step. Once the states are up and running, and the Palestinian doctors are working in Israeli hospitals and trucks of oranges are crossing the borders, and a road runs from Damascus to Jerusalem that all can drive on, idealists like myself will talk about a federated solution, but the IPF event was about leadership and opportunity, and let us celebrate the initiative.

Guess what, Phil. I also think that, eventually, a federated solution would make perfect sense. It used to be a respectable idea among the Zionists in Palestine. In the unlikely event that we ever arrive at the juncture you describe, I'll join you on the idealists' barricades. In the meantime, welcome home, my brother.

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Cheap viagra no rx, I have read the Mearsheimer and Walt book. They have answered some--although not all-- of my prayers, which were spelled out in my post on August 12th. The book is much more careful, more nuanced, Order viagra, more detailed and more convincing than their original paper, which was published in the Spring of 2006.

I wanted very much to like their original paper, but it contained too many questionable assertions, half-truths and unsupported or unqualified generalizations. This book still has problemmatic sections, viagra without prescription, but it must be taken more seriously. No doubt some in the organized Jewish community will lambaste them not just for their mistakes –and there are still many of those in the book—but for the act of writing it and skewering the conventional lobby, cheap viagra no rx. The rest of us ought to be absorbing what they have to say, taking it seriously, not blinking at truths that are incontrovertible and thinking very hard about their political and moral implications. Cheap viagra pills, They still exaggerate --sometimes dramatically-- “the Israel lobby’s” ability to get its way and influence the actual decisions that are made by actual Administrations in actual historical circumstances. They cling to the notion that Israel and its lobby were "the principle driving force behind the Bush Administration's decision to invade Iraq in 2003," and I believe that is not accurate. They are especially unfair to Clinton's Middle East peace team, for reasons that require much more space to explain. Cheap viagra no rx, They make other important arguments about the inner workings of AIPAC and the rest of the lobby that don't hold up. In the future, California CA Calif. , I will have more to say about the extent of the lobby’s power and take exception to other particulars in this book. But I don't see how anyone can dispute their most important, overarching conclusions, painful though they may be to many American Jews. Louisiana LA , e.g.:

Washington's reflexive support for Israel has fueled anti-Americanism throughout the Arab and Islamic world and undermined the U.S. image in many other countries as well. The lobby has made it difficult for U.S, cheap viagra no rx. leaders to pressure Israel, thereby prolonging the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This situation gives Islamic terrorists a powerful recruiting tool and contributes to the growth of Islamic radicalism.

Unlike the original paper, the book makes an effort to show that self-styled, Kjøp Discount viagra, pro-Israel, American Jewish organizations do not form anything close to a monolithic front. It notes that:

[While] AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents have tilted toward Likud and other hard-line parties in Israel and were skeptical about the Oslo process, a number of other, Missouri MO Mo. , smaller groups –such as Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, Brit Tzedek v’ Shalom, Israel Policy Forum, Jewish Voices for Peace, Meretz USA and the Tikkun Community—strongly favor a two-state solution and believe Israel needs to make significant concessions in order to bring it about…

…Some of these organizations actively promote U.S, pharmacie viagra bon marché. engagement in the peace process and have been able to win some minor legislative victories…[but], such groups lack the financial resources and influence of AIPAC, the ADL, the ZOA or the Conference of Presidents, Viagra, whose right of center views are unfortunately taken by politicians, policy makers and the media to be the representative voice of American Jewry. For the moment…the major organizations in the lobby will continue to advocate policy positions at odds with many of the people in whose name they speak.
Cheap viagra no rx, That is, of course, true. It is a truth that has been one of the banes of my existence. It is also true and important to note that, as they put it, “even when the leaders and rank and file of important American Jewish organizations have serious reservations about Israeli policy, West Virginia WV W.Va. , they rarely call for the U.S. government to put significant pressure on the Israeli government.” That has been another, personal bane. Obviously, New Mexico NM N.Mex. , the underfunded Jewish peace camp has not provided a strong political counterweight to more hawkish, richer and noisier organizations. This state of affairs that has helped to constrain American policy makers from taking a more balanced approach to the conflict, an approach that would clearly be in America’s interest as well as Israel's, cheap viagra no rx.

Towards the end of the book, one of their recommendations is:

strengthening more moderate forces that already exist" [in the current Israel lobby] or...creating new, pro-Israel groups that support different policies. U.S, viagra online kopen. and Israel interests would also be advanced by wresting power away from hardliners who now control AIPAC, the Zionist Organization of America, the Conference of Presidents...Such efforts might also be strengthened by institutional reforms that would give the rank and file a greater voice in determining these organizations' policy prescriptions.

Finally, they insist in a number of places that they are "pro-Israel." They "believe that the history of the Jewish people and the norm of self-determination provides ample justification for a Jewish State." They are two-staters who reject the bi-national, Rhode Island RI R.I. , single-state option and the actual implementation of the Palestinian "right of return." And they want the U.S. to come Israel's aid if its survival is threatened. Cheap viagra no rx, In other words (sorry to disappoint you, hard lefties who want them to be your heros, and righties who want people like me to denounce them), they sometimes come across as...left wing Zionists. Or at least they appreciate left-wing Zionists, which amounts to the same thing.

I will offer one major quibble, for now, acquistare a buon mercato viagra, because it pertains to the actual tactics necessary to effect change in both the Jewish community and American foreign policy:

Mearsheimer and Walt exaggerate the extent to which people in my camp and other American Jews have been constrained from criticizing Israel in public or attacking the conventional Israel lobby when they disagree with it. They assert that "more sensible voices in the Jewish community will have to discard the taboo against public criticism of Israelis policies that are harmful to Israel and may even be harmful to Jews in the Diaspora." Elsewhere, they make the very familiar claim that there is a “norm against public criticism” of Israel within the Jewish community.

Now, Viagra generic, there are people who still believe there should be a “norm against public criticism,” but that norm has been violated so often, and so vociferously, in the last two decades that it can no longer be taken seriously as a predictor of the community’s behavior. It was shattered by the American Jewish right during Oslo, some of whom actively and openly lobbied against official Israeli policy in Washington, cheap viagra no rx. But there have also been many important precedents of vocal dissent against Israeli policies by Jews on the left, who have spoken out and somehow managed to survive as members of the organized community, goedkope viagra apotheek. These precedents offer some hope to those of us who agree that Israel as well as America need a different, more evenhanded U.S. approach to the conflict, and that more American Jews must make it clear that they support this kind of approach. Viagra discount, One example used by Mearsheimer and Walt to show “efforts to marginalize dissenting Jewish voices” is a recent vocal campaign by the Zionist Organization of America against the Union of Progressive Zionists. Cheap viagra no rx, The UPZ sponsored on-campus appearances of “Breaking the Silence,” a group of Israeli soldiers who told vivid stories of the brutal behavior exhibited by Israelis trying to enforce the occupation. That disturbed the ZOA and its leader Mort Klein, who "demanded that the group be expelled from the Israel on Campus Coalition, a network of pro-Israel groups that includes AIPAC and the ADL." They also note other voices of opposition.

Mearsheimer and Walt mention that “the ICC steering committee unanimously rejected the ZOA’s demand.” But they might not realize that some of the most vocal supporters of keeping the UPZ on campus reportedly included the reps of the Conference of Presidents and other mainstays of the lobby that supposedly wants to suppress opposition to Israeli policies.

The leaders of these mainstream groups apparently understand --or at least begrudgingly accept-- that the communal tent needs to be big enough to include Israelis and American Jews who are mortified by the moral costs of the occupation and willing to say so, Arkansas AR Ark. , publicly. The fact that Mort Klein --and one Orthodox Jewish organization-- weighed in against this particular form of criticism hardly means their sentiments are representative of the Jewish community's.

Klein is also invoked in another example that, the authors assert, shows "how deep the opposition to open discussion runs": in 1996, he objected to the ADL's invitation to Tom Friedman to speak at their dinner, cheap viagra no rx. But the ADL let him speak. These and a few other examples they cite do not show there is a "norm" or a "taboo" against open discussion or criticism of Israeli policies. Vermont VT Vt. , They show that one set of Jews is arguing with another set of Jews.

Klein is a ferocious, skillful opponent of any conciliation or compromise with the Palestinians, but he has a relatively small following now and had a much smaller one in 1996. Cheap viagra no rx, To treat him as a representative of deep currents in the community is like treating Pat Robertson as a representative of mainstream Christians. More importantly, he himself has CONSTANTLY violated the “norm” by attacking Israeli policies that he considers to be too conciliatory, Maryland MD Md. . He openly disdains that norm.

Moreover, Mearsheimer and Walt ignore the way divisions over Israeli settlement policies and some military actions caused deep schisms among American Jews beginning in the 1980s. They spend a great deal of space on the [shameful] treatment of Breira, Köpa rabatterade viagra, a group of lefty Jews who were ostracized by the community in the 1970s. But times changed, cheap viagra no rx. Norms and paradigms of discourse gradually --VERY gradually-- began to shift once Begin was elected in '78.

Yes, when confronted with Begin and then Shamir, it was a minority of American Jews who protested publicly or otherwise went against the grain. But that minority did include some important mainstream leaders and organizations, Alaska AK , including the American Jewish Congress and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now called the Union of Reform Judaism). In times of emergency, the protests and disquiet spilled out of organizational board rooms and made it into mainstream media. Cheap viagra no rx, There was rarely an unbroken wall of support for –or passive acceptance of--Israeli policies or the positions of the conventional Israel lobby. Consider:

o--On May 5, Cheapest viagra online, 1990, Time Magazine ran an article entitled; “The agony over Israel: American Jews face a dilemma: how to criticize the Jewish state without seeming disloyal.” It asserted: “It has been an article of faith held by every government of Israel since the Jewish state was founded: no matter how much American Jews might disagree with Israeli policy, they could be counted on not to keep their criticisms public. No more. The American Jewish community has become a house divided –and sometimes loudly so—over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories and its reluctance to pursue a comprehensive settlement that finally might bring peace to the region.”

o--Two years before that (March 21, 1988), ordering viagra without prescription, a New York Times headline proclaimed “Shamir assails his U.S. Jewish critics.” The lead: “Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir lashed out yesterday against American Jews who have been pressing the United States government to force Israel to accept an international conference to resolve the Arab Israeli dispute.” Reporting on Shamir’s speech to a meeting of the Presidents Conference, the story noted that “Albert Vorspann, senior vice president of [the Union of] American Hebrew Congregations, North Carolina NC N.C. , argued that Israel could not always expect the `reflexive loyalty’ of American Jewry. He said it was “dangerous to imply that honest disagreements represent disloyalty.”

o--In February of that same year, Commentary devoted a whole issue to the mounting, passionate, very public protests of Israeli policies by American Jews, cheap viagra no rx. A cranky, unsigned introduction explained,“never perhaps has criticism of the state of Israel by American Jews been so open, so widespread, and so bitter as it is today.”

o--Six years before that, on July 15th, 1982, a New York Times headline read “Discord Among U.S. Jews over Israel Seems to Grow. ” The article, about American Jewish opposition to Israel’s continuing military assault on Lebanon, asserted “As in Israel itself, opponents of the policies of Prime Minister Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon are beginning to engage in skirmishes through articles, statements, letters and newspaper advertisements."

There are many other examples. Of course there were not enough of us and these efforts were not politically consequential. Of course there are not enough of us now. And of course a good many attitudinal shifts will be necessary for American Jews in my camp to be an effective political opposition. But, while the taboo against taking on Israeli policies or pressing for active American diplomatic engagement is still out there, it is not nearly as strong as Mearsheimer and Walt seem to think.

The question remains, will enough silent, passive American Jewish liberals ever feel like there is a sufficiently grave emergency to start making noise.

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