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When reviewing my book in the Jerusalem Post, Jonathan Schanzer blamed me for citing Rob Malley's thoughts on how the American Jewish community influences State Department policymakers: "The author also does himself a disservice by quoting Robert Malley, Om soma online, who coauthored articles after the collapse of the Oslo process with Hussein Agha, New Jersey NJ N.J. , a former adviser to Yasser Arafat, blaming Israel and exonerating Arafat." This is not exactly classic guilt-by-association. It is worse, buy soma online. It is guilt-by-thought-association. (Actually, it's worse than that, because it completely distorts what Malley and Agha have written), order soma online cheap. Soma online, Similarly, a Realistic Dove commentator once insisted that MondoWeiss, the hard-hitting and often disturbing blog from Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz, Pennsylvania PA Penn. , be removed from my blogroll. Rhode Island RI R.I. , I have often used this space to argue passionately with Weiss, but have also agreed with him. Either way, buy soma online, his blog often provides information available nowhere else. Soma online stores, Why is agreeing with him sometimes, let alone keeping him on a blogroll, equivalent to embracing every one of his thoughts, bestill soma online. Order soma online cheap, To these thought police, probably the worst sin is giving the slightest hint that you agree with anything that Stephen Walt or John Mearsheimer have ever propounded about Israel and the Israel lobby. My book takes exception to some of their characterizations of the Jewish community and foreign policy decisionmaking. Ordering soma pills, But, in addition, I wrote that while "they got a lot of things wrong..., soma en ligne afin,they also got a lot of things right." To some, Purchase soma, making the latter point was the equivalent of saying something obscene in front of little children.

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The implication, acheter soma, however, Ordering soma online without prescription, is that Israel still has to decide what kind of state it is going to be. Order soma online cheap, Will it be a modern secular democracy with a certain Jewish character, but where non-Jews are fully equal citizens both de jure and de facto. If so, then two states will work, Oregon OR Ore. , and the two conflicting narratives about the past could gradually cease to matter very much. In the most optimistic scenario, the whole sorry history of the Zionist-Arab conflict might eventually be regarded as a painful historical episode but not part of anyone's future agenda, much as Alsace-Lorraine eventually ceased to be an issue between France and Germany. Or will Israel continue to pursue the dream of Greater Israel, increasingly fueled by ethno-religious claims and the growing political power of religious extremists. If so, then it will become an apartheid state and will eventually face a Palestinian struggle for democratic rights....Needless to say, these different visions will have far-reaching implications for relations between Israel and its neighbors, the rest of the world, and between Israel and the Jewish diaspora...I wish Agha and Malley had been less coy in raising this important set of issues.

He sounds like a left wing, progressive Zionist. In fact, he sounds a bit like Ehud Olmert, just before he left office. So kick me out of the tent, folks. But after you do, you might want to try a daring experiment: forget that Walt wrote one book or a few blog posts that you didn't like, and garner whatever truth he has to offer. The truth is always worth hearing, whether it comes from Arutz Sheva (the settlers' radio station), or Philip Weiss, or Benjamin Netanyahu, or Mahmoud Abbas, or Walt and Mearsheimer.

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Even before President Barack Obama's Cairo speech last week, there were reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers were surprised by the president's insistence that Israel stop all settlement construction. Now, buy clomid pills, as Netanyahu prepares his own speech on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Clomid for sale, he should be careful not to misjudge the situation yet again by misreading what stands behind Obama's Middle East policies. The American president's approach to the region is based on more than the lofty ideals and calculations of U.S. strategic interests that have been attributed to him by international media; it is also the product of shrewd political judgment, buy clomid.

Obama might sound like a thoughtful university professor, clomid without a prescription, but he and his closest aides are pragmatists who were schooled in the hard-knuckled politics of Chicago. Comprar clomid de descuento, They have obviously decided that the president's quest for a new relationship with the Muslim world, along with his harsh criticism of Israeli settlement activity, offers potential political rewards that exceed the risks by a large margin, pharmacie clomid bon marché.

As he plans his policy speech, Kopen goedkope clomid, Netanyahu would do well to also consider American voters, not just their president. According to a recent poll by Zogby International, order clomid overnight delivery, 50 percent of those voters think that, Generic clomid, given previous American calls for a halt to Israeli settlement construction, the U.S. Buy clomid, should "get tough" with Israel. More importantly, clomid generic, 71 percent of Americans who voted for Obama feel that way and 89 percent of them say the conflict negatively affects U.S. Cheapest clomid in the world, interests. Obama's political base is losing patience with the settlement enterprise and thinks it harms the United States.

Those voters include most American Jews, Montana MT Mont. , and that is another reason why Obama's stance is politically astute. Netanyahu should not have been surprised by a survey published in March showing that six out of 10 American Jews were opposed to settlement expansion, or that most supported U.S, buy clomid. Ordering clomid pills, engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict even if it meant publicly disagreeing with or pressuring both sides. Those responses were consistent with many earlier surveys. But there was a fascinating new statistic buried in the results of that March poll, comprar clomid baratos, which was sponsored by J Street, Køb discount clomid, the left-leaning pro-Israel lobby group: Seventy-two percent of U.S. Jews who are active political donors oppose Israeli settlement construction. Buy clomid, So, if Obama remains steadfast on the settlements, he is unlikely to lose many contributors and will in fact please quite a few.

The Obama team's calculations also include an accurate reading of Jewish organizational tea leaves, αγοράζουν φτηνά clomid. They understand that the president is unlikely to encounter massive American Jewish opposition if he keeps pressing hard for the settlement enterprise to stop, Buy clomid online, as long as he is clearly committed to meeting Israel's core security requirements and pushes the Palestinians to halt violence and incitement.

The most important group in the conventional pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, purchase clomid, is terrified of a confrontation with a wildly popular Democratic president whose party controls Congress. Cheap clomid overnight delivery, AIPAC's leaders only pick the fights they think they can win; they know they would lose if they found themselves trying to justify new apartment buildings in occupied territory.

It is unclear whether Netanyahu's Israeli advisors understood all this when he took office, buy clomid. What is clear is that he got good advice from American Jewish leaders and he ignored it. "Pro-Israel American Jews have been telling Netanyahu that he has to do something about the settlements, αγοράσετε clomid, and that if he came out for a two-state solution, New Mexico NM N.Mex. , relations would be easier," Ron Kampeas, the well-connected Washington reporter for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency told me, Kansas KS Kans. . Another source familiar with Netanyahu said, For clomid online, "His record shows that he believes he is the master of America-Israel relations and no one knows America better than he does."

If he does know America, he will realize that the days when Likud prime ministers could use American Jewish groups, Christian Zionists and Congress to subvert the wishes of U.S, Ohio OH . presidents are long gone. Buy clomid, As are the days when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seemed like a distant feud with little impact on the American people. Comprare clomid, Now, progress toward resolving it is clearly a national security imperative, and Obama's voters - and, indeed, most Americans - know it.

When describing Obama, the media adhere to the Great Man Theory of History, which gives individual leaders primary credit for transforming the world. They treat him like a rock star, or the herald of a new age. But Netanyahu should not rely on that theory as he tries to figure out how to respond to the American president. Obama is a charismatic leader, but he is also expressing popular will, buy clomid. He is both the cause and the result of a widespread American yearning for peace and stability in the Middle East.

That is why Netanyahu should know that if he makes empty promises and tries to wriggle out of a profound disagreement with the U.S. over the settlements, he will risk insulting and angering not only the American president but also a large swath of the American people. It is hard to believe most Israelis - or American Jews - would want him to take that risk for the sake of unimpeded growth, "natural" or otherwise, in the West Bank.

Dan Fleshler, a New York media and public-affairs consultant, is the author of "Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change," published last month by Potomac Books.

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...Fleshler does a masterful job of portraying the actual political influence that AIPAC and other groups wield, without either overblowing or underplaying it....It is precisely this contextualizing of AIPAC that marks this book a success in all the ways that Walt and Mearsheimer fell short, buy cheap clomid online. Buy clomid overnight delivery, The two professors, whose expertise does not lie in a Washington scene with which they have only a dilettante’s familiarity, Massachusetts MA Mass. , Comprare clomid sconto, can’t match Fleshler’s insight into the workings of Washington, much less the Jewish community.., köpa clomid online. Cheap clomid without prescription, From my perspective as someone who has worked in the field of Israel-Palestine peace for years, and writing from my office in Washington, clomid kopen, Kjøpe clomid, it is clear that Transforming America’s Israel Lobby is the book we have been waiting for. Those of us “inside the Beltway” have long felt much of what Fleshler says.., buy clomid c.o.d.. Ordering clomid,

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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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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

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That was greeted with loud boos and catcalls. The audible hostility continued even though Baker also made serious demands of the PLO and the Arab states, buy viagra free samples without prescription. Missouri MO Mo. , Twenty years later, Vice President Joseph Biden told the AIPAC Policy Conference:

"Israel has to work for a two-state solution. You're not going to like my saying this...But don't build more settlements, Kansas KS Kans. . Dismantle existing outposts. Montana MT Mont. , Allow Palestinians freedom of movement."

The video of the speech indicates there was applause from at least part of the crowd, probably the centrist, moderate Democrats who are part of the AIPAC family, generic viagra free samples, contrary to the popular notion that the organization's members are all Likudniks, Iowa IA , neo-cons and settler supporters. Buy viagra free samples without prescription, Everyone else was silent. But there was no overt hostility.

I wasn't there, acheter viagra free samples bon marché, but based on conversations with two people who were in the room, Viagra free samples online stores, and based on past attendance at these conferences, I can guarantee that the rest of the crowd just sat there uncomfortably, waiting for the next applause line, acheter viagra free samples, hoping and praying that Biden would not challenge the Israeli government again. Order viagra free samples no prescription, During these plenary speeches, they wait for chances to give standing ovations to any and every politician who declares a commitment to Israel. That is how they had greeted Biden's earlier, cheap viagra free samples from canada, mandatory statement that America's commitment to Israel's security would not change, Ohio OH , and was non-negotiable. They were in no mood for a fight, even though Biden's remarks were confrontational, even though one of AIPAC's chief goals is to make sure there is no distance between official American and Israeli positions, no public disputes between the two governments, buy viagra free samples without prescription.

Why the different reactions to the two speeches. One of them has to do with political style, buy viagra free samples online. Bush and Baker were “tone-deaf” when it came to dealing with the Jewish community, Georgia GA Ga. , said UCLA Professor Steven Spiegel in my book. He thinks the Bush '41 team could have reduced at least some tensions with Jews in the U.S. Buy viagra free samples without prescription, by paying more attention to their fears and insecurities about Israel. A president, viagra free samples discount, Spiegel told me, För viagra free samples online, "needs to reassure them with the rhetoric, then do the right thing."

In contrast to Bush '41 and Baker, Obama, viagra free samples online kopen, Biden and Clinton have a much better feel for the organized Jewish community. District of Columbia DC D.C. , They have been doing their best to reassure the community of their commitment to meeting Israel's core security needs, even though there have been public disagreements with Netanyahu on a number of issues.

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AIPAC is terrified of a public spat with an overwhelmingly popular Democratic President and his administration, buy viagra free samples without prescription. Contrary to popular belief, AIPAC’s highest priority is not to promote the policies of Israeli governments, although it generally tries to do so. The group is more interested in solidifying America’s short- and long-term relationship with Israel. For that, it needs access to and good relations with bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon and the White House. A public squabble with Obama and his team is not helpful to AIPAC staffers who need to get into the right rooms with the right people. Buy viagra free samples without prescription, They also need to get their board members into those very same rooms because that is an expected perk of voluntary leadership.

Bibi Netanyahu also seems to be doing his best to avoid a confrontation. In his videotaped speech to the AIPAC conference, he endorsed negotiations without preconditions and apparently abandoned his earlier commitment to addressing the Palestinians' economic plight before serious political talks could occur.

But the confrontation probably can’t be avoided forever. Eventually, Obama will have to decide whether to insist loudly and clearly that, like Palestinian violence and incitement, Israel’s recalcitrant refusal to stop its settlements projects is unacceptable, and against American, Israeli and Palestinian interests.

If he stakes out that position, most American Jews –like most Americans—will support him, buy viagra free samples without prescription. So will most of the U.S. Congress, although there will be some inevitable squalls from groups to the right of AIPAC and their congressional allies. If that happens, AIPAC will be in a tough position. Bibi should not count on the group’s ability to wriggle out of it, and give him the kind of raucous support it gave one of his mentors, Yitzhak Shamir.

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Friday, May 1st, 2009

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APN opposes these bills and is conveying variations of the message that is pasted below to Hill offices. It is, in my judgement, very reasonable, order viagra free samples. But one searches in vain for these arguments on the web sites of mainstream American Jewish organizations that are concerned with Iran, viagra free samples en ligne afin. These arguments, Bestill viagra free samples online, and those of Triti Parsi, are not even included in the conversation. So ordinary folks in the Jewish community have been led to believe that there is only one set of options when dealing with Iran, Wisconsin WI Wis. , only one way to address Iran's nuclear development: "isolation-sanctions-and-saber-rattling, Order viagra free samples pills, " as described by APN. (See Chapter 5 in my book, which makes the same point), Nebraska NE Nebr. .

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We are suggesting that if U.S. engagement with Iran is to have any chance of success, credible, sustained diplomatic efforts - without preconditions, artificial timelines, or the threat of Congressionally-imposed end-dates in the form of new sanctions - are indispensable. These new sanctions bills are neither necessary to, nor supportive of, such an effort. We therefore urge members of Congress to refrain from co-sponsoring these bills and to press their leadership to make a public commitment that these bills will be kept off the legislative agenda.

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Sunday, April 26th, 2009

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What I did not mention was that the management of perceptions occurs not only when people involved with Israel present themselves to public officials; it also happens when they present themselves to other Jews, order viagra free samples.

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Isn’t that odd, given his reputation, buy cheap viagra free samples online. With all of the organization’s supposed tentacles into the Pentagon, Kjøpe billig viagra free samples, and with Iran policy reportedly a longtime personal obsession of Rosen, it seems curious that he had to act like a graduate student trolling the bureaucracy and searching for a proper source for a thesis. Buy viagra free samples no prescription, But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his insider status, because we don’t know precisely what he said when he requested the expert on Iran. He finally got hold of Franklin and they made an appointment, Tennessee TN Tenn. , which was canceled and rescheduled in a series of phone calls. Hawaii HI , If anything important was discussed in those initial phone calls, surely it would have been prominently displayed in the indictment. But we aren’t told much about what they discussed and apparently they were innocuous conversations about scheduling, order viagra free samples online. So Rosen could not have known what Franklin could do for him until they actually met.

Yet, on February 2, 2003, while driving to his first meeting with Franklin, he told someone on the phone in the AIPAC office that he was “really excited” to meet with a “Pentagon guy” who was a “real insider.”

Franklin was one of 1,400 people who worked for Douglas Feith, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, buy viagra free samples no prescription. Online viagra free samples, He was about five steps below Feith in the hierarchy, barely qualifying as a mid-level bureaucrat. How could Rosen have known that meeting Franklin was an “exciting” opportunity or that Franklin was a “real insider?” Yet he felt compelled to boast and seem impressive before he had any idea of what Franklin could bring to the table, viagra free samples no prescription.

This was hardly the first time he engaged in that kind of self-branding. Oregon OR Ore. , Former AIPAC Executive Director Tom Dine told reporter Lawrence Cohler-Esses that:

…federal agents investigating Rosen unearthed a memo from 1983, soon after Rosen's arrival at AIPAC, in which Rosen boasted about his access to a comprehensive, North Dakota ND , classified review of U.S. Buy viagra free samples no prescription, policy in the Middle East. Jotta viagra free samples verkossa, Rosen then wrote about his discovery in a memo to Dine and one of the lobby's prominent supporters.

…Dine's account indicates that…Rosen explicitly informed his boss -- the lobby's top staff official -- of his success in obtaining such information in writing.

Asked his reaction to the memo at the time, cheap viagra free samples overnight delivery, Dine said his impression was that Rosen had not actually laid his hands on the classified document itself but had obtained intelligence on it in the draft stage…

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So it’s unclear whether the actual document was classified or not, but Tom Dine didn’t think so, buy viagra free samples no prescription. Yet Rosen used it to begin building his reputation within AIPAC. Viagra free samples cheap, Such braggadocio was hardly limited to Rosen within the culture of AIPAC. Douglas Bloomfield, who worked there in the 1990s, cheap viagra free samples online without prescription, told me that one of the organization’s presidents once informed him, Buy viagra free samples no rx, “I am the most politically astute guy in the country.”

When AIPAC began its executive lobbying operation in the 1980s, Bloomfield said the operation was created in part to puff up the egos of “affable millionaires who expected to get access. At first, cheap viagra free samples, they would meet with Members in the House but soon that wasn’t important enough. Buy viagra free samples no prescription, Then meeting with Senators wasn’t important enough. Cheap viagra free samples online legally, Then Assistant Secretaries of State weren’t important enough…They ended up going up the chain of command and having strategic conversations about topics they knew nothing about. Steve [Rosen] adroitly played to their egos.” {That quote is in a chapter of my book entitled “Lamp Salesmen and Secretaries of State.”)

The best known example occurred a month after Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, when then-AIPAC President David Steiner spoke to New York City businessman and AIPAC donor Harry Katz, in what turned out to be a taped phone conversation. Steiner said American Jews with connections to AIPAC had played a role in Clinton’s campaign and there was an expectation that they would get “big jobs." He said "we're negotiating" with the Clinton people on who might be Secretary of State….He also said he had personally met with outgoing Secretary of State Baker and "cut a deal with him" for extra aid to Israel.

When the story broke, Steiner quickly resigned, after admitting that he had lied through his teeth and was just trying to impress a donor. Most of what Steiner said is preposterous, buy viagra free samples no prescription. For one thing, an outgoing secretary of state, especially someone like {“F&*# the Jews”) James Baker, who had not had cordial relations with AIPAC, does not “cut a deal” with one American Jew on aid packages for Israel; those are carefully negotiated with Israel and Congress, with the conventional Israel lobby and others weighing in. Still, that incident was in the Walt-Mearsheimer book and is prominently displayed in the many blogs that claim that the Zionists control America.

As I noted, personal power puffery happens everywhere. It has been on display in every company I've ever worked in and in my teenage daughter's Model UN meetings. But it appears to play an outsized role in AIPAC’s operations. The group’s board members and staffers are indeed powerful, but one gets a sense that some of them are happiest when they believe in their own exaggerations about themselves. Keep that in mind when you read about the power puffery on display at the AIPAC policy conference, which begins on May 3rd.

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