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Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street’s executive director, says that J Street’s purpose is to offer an alternative to AIPAC and try to redefine what it means to be pro-Israel today, as he explained in an opinion piece he wrote for The Washington Post on May 11, 2008. He wants to provide our elected officials, whom he says are "afraid" (thanks for reinforcing that anti-Semitic canard) to offend the most powerful Jewish-American lobbyists speaking on behalf of Israel, with an alternative to “reflexively supporting every Israeli action and implacably opposing every Israeli foe.” Ben-Ami blames “neo-conservatives” and “the most right-wing elements of the American Jewish and Christian Zionist communities” for being what he calls Israel’s enablers. Hmmmm...I proudly plead guilty.
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A coal-fired power plant in China's Sichuan province.
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First time I've ever been decribed as a Zionist it's kinda catchy,think Ill get a "I'm a Christian Zionist" t-shirt.
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Dictionary:
ReplyDeleteZionist: 'An international movement for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Its historic location. A Modern 'Zionist' is anyone who supports the right of the Modern State of Israel to exist.
That means that the overwhelming percentage of American's are 'Zionists', and there are far more 'Christian Zionists' than there are Jews.
The press is dominated by Likud Party Zionist types. Carter in his book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" , pg 209, "...(I)n the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned, voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media..." In other words, Zionists dominate the US media. "At the same time, political leaders and news media in Europe are highly critical of Israeli policies, affecting public attitudes." In Arron David Miller’s book, “The Much Too Promised Land”, he states that “no ethnic group has the power and focus of the American-Jewish community.” “Today you cannot be successful in American politics and not be good on Israel.” London review of books, The Israel Lobby , by John Mearsheimer(U of Chicago)and Stephen Walt(Harvard U) (book endorsed by former Carter Security Advisor Brzezinski)“Thanks in part to the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections, the Lobby also has significant leverage over the executive branch. Although they make up fewer than 3 per cent of the population, they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates ‘depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 per cent of the money’. And because Jewish voters have high turn-out rates and are concentrated in key states like California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, presidential candidates go to great lengths not to antagonize them.”
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