J-Street and Obama are in full agreement.
By Ted Belman
My first article on the subject was Liberal Jews support Obama in part because they blame the Jews too. I followed it up with The Jewish Left wants the US to pressure Israel
J-Street have now published a Statement of Principles. If you want to know what Obama’s foreign policy is regarding Israel read this statement closely.
Statement of Principles
J Street brings together Americans who seek a new direction for American policy in the Middle East and broader public and policy debate in the U.S. about ways to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East.
We support:
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* Consistent and concerted diplomatic engagement by the United States to achieve Israeli-Arab peace. A negotiated end to the Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts serves both U.S. and Israeli strategic and security interests. Achieving it must be a priority for any future U.S. administration; (They insist that Israel be forced to capitulate.)
* An enduring relationship between the US and Israel that promotes their common interests. We recognize and support Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, a democratic country that promises equal rights for all its citizens and that has the right to defend itself against external threats; (But not a a Jewish state.There is a difference.
* The creation of a viable Palestinian state as part of a negotiated two-state solution, based on the 1967 borders with agreed reciprocal land swaps. The future Palestinian state will require unprecedented levels of international economic and political support to succeed, including a resolution of the refugee issue within the new Palestinian state and in current host countries; (These borders would require the transfer of at least 150,000 Israelis.)
* An Israeli-Syrian peace agreement based on the land-for-peace formula, security guarantees, and details outlined in previous negotiations; (Of what value are security guarantees?)
* A comprehensive regional peace that builds on the Arab Initiative, leading to recognition of Israel by all its neighbors in the Middle East and the creation of a new regional approach to cooperation and security; (Pie in the sky.)
* An American policy in the Middle East more broadly based on diplomacy, multilateralism and real partnership with the European Union, the Quartet and others. We support dialogue with a broad range of countries and actors, including Iran, over confrontation in order to find solutions to the region’s conflicts. (They want to appease them rather than confront them.)
To advance these goals, we seek to build a broad and inclusive campaign that crosses ethnic and religious lines and in which American Jews play a prominent role.
We believe honest discussion of American and Israeli policies is healthy for the U.S., for Israel and for the American Jewish community. We will actively promote debate in the United States that is as open and spirited as it is in Israel. In that debate, we will oppose alliances with the religious right or any radical religious ideologues in the name of supporting Israel as well as efforts to demean and fan fears of Islam or of Muslims. (That’s why Obama singled out Likud policies. They certainly don’t take the threat of Islamofascism seriously. This is outrageous. Islam should be demeaned and we should fear it.
An Obama presidency will be a disaster for Israel.
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Yes it is a peace party as you suggest. The left in Israel is also a peace party. But I would put peace in quotation marks.
My point is that Obama and Progressives, J-Street included, are in bed together. So by looking at J-Street’s p0olicies, you can see Obama’s.
What you say about Clinton may be true but I can assure you Obama has the support of the far left rather than Clinton.
As for the last comment, it depends how you define a Jewish state. No easy matter. For that matter, how do you define a Jewish homeland?
Either way, the present government also seeks recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
Comment by Ted Belman — May 29, 2008 @ 5:04 am
Ignorant dhimmi. It actually encourages them.
Comment by Shy Guy — May 29, 2008 @ 5:43 am
Discussing his affinity for Israel, Senator Obama tells the Atlantic magazine, “I’ve got it in the gut.” He describes his own thought process as agonized (dare we say neurotic?) in a way that some might view as quintessentially Jewish. And he professes an “enormous emotional attachment and sympathy for Israel” that would make an Aipac board member jealous.
“Sometimes I’m attacked in the press for maybe being too deliberative. My staff teases me sometimes about anguishing over moral questions. I think I learned that partly from Jewish thought, that your actions have consequences and that they matter and that we have moral imperatives. The point is, if you look at my writings and my history, my commitment to Israel and the Jewish people is more than skin-deep and it’s more than political expediency. When it comes to the gut issue, I have such ardent defenders among my Jewish friends in Chicago. I don’t think people have noticed how fiercely they defend me, and how central they are to my success, because they’ve interacted with me long enough to know that I’ve got it in my gut,” Mr. Obama told the magazine.
The senator from illinois and likely Democratic presidential nominee also traced his ties to Jewish writers, thinkers–and even camp counselors. “I always joke that my intellectual formation was through Jewish scholars and writers, even though I didn’t know it at the time. Whether it was theologians or Philip Roth who helped shape my sensibility, or some of the more popular writers like Leon Uris. So when I became more politically conscious, my starting point when I think about the Middle East is this enormous emotional attachment and sympathy for Israel, mindful of its history, mindful of the hardship and pain and suffering that the Jewish people have undergone, but also mindful of the incredible opportunity that is presented when people finally return to a land and are able to try to excavate their best traditions and their best selves. And obviously it’s something that has great resonance with the African-American experience,” the senator said.
So, even if Americans are ready for their first black president, are they ready for their first Jewish one?
Comment by davidstill — May 29, 2008 @ 9:07 am
Ted,
It’s probably true that J Street policy coincides with Obama, but you can’t prove it and saying it doesn’t make it so. I find J Street policy, as you stated it to be antithetical to the very survival of a Jewish state. Forcing Israel to accept land grants that have never been part of any UN resolution or any formal documents, except the maximalist demands of the Arabs is not helpful to Israel or to peace. The group is delusional if they think Israel will go back to the 1949 cease fire line, with minimal swaps of land. The idea of the US forcing it on Israel is something even the Arabs don’t say, so how can a group of Jews propose it? There has to be an agenda at work here that we haven’t discovered. I would suggest that the agenda is the destruction of AIPAC, the destruction of Israel and the complete Djimmification of world Jewry, but what do these guys get out of it?
Comment by Fred — May 29, 2008 @ 11:08 am
Fred.
It wasn’t conjecture on my part. I have analyzed Obama’s speeches and those of his foreign policy advisors and there is full agreement.
Comment by Ted Belman — May 29, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
davidstill, obama is the biggest fraud in politics and that’s saying ALOT. You are so gullible and so typical of hussein obama kool-aid drinkers. What a complete idiot you are, you need to have some sense knocked into you. Look at his various speeches, he says whatever the group he is speaking to at the time wants to hear. Go ahead and read this excellent analysis by Sutan Knish, you nitwit. http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/27/obama-and-the-jews/
Comment by Laura — May 29, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
So speaking to Christian Zionists is off-limits but radical muslims are okay to deal with. J-street thinks conservative Christians are a bigger threat than muslims. These people are deluded.
Comment by Laura — May 29, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
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