The “J” Is For Joke
May 9, 2008 at 9:51 pm
On Sunday, instead of wasting your time reading this in the Washington Post …
The president has acted as Israel’s exclusive corner man when he should have been refereeing the fight.
… read this instead in The New Republic:
Given that AIPAC and other similar groups already speak for most American Jews, and given that J Street’s founders are well outside the mainstream of Jewish public opinion, it’s far from clear what, exactly, the new organization can realistically hope to accomplish. Of course, if J Street someday surpasses AIPAC in membership and manages to convince the majority of pro-Israel voters in the United States that negotiations with Hamas are a smart idea, then it will rightly be able to accuse other groups of misrepresenting American Jews. But that is about as likely as crossing J Street on a journey from I to K.
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