The Israel Lobby: Now a “Sliver” of U.S. Jews?
by: Dave Belden on July 2nd, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Interesting post here on Mondoweiss. Finally the Israel Lobby has reason to worry? We’ll wait and see.
Interesting post here on Mondoweiss. Finally the Israel Lobby has reason to worry? We’ll wait and see.
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I don’t know how to open any of the blogs. Kindly advise.
Tikkun has made, is making, a H U G E difference. Congratulations to us and our leadership.
I just sent the following to the President, and copied it to my Congressman, John Lewis, who needs to put on his peace walking shoes. Surely if American Jews can stand up despite AIPAC, he can.
Congratulations on getting the blog going. I’m not really sure what the difference is, but on with the young!
peggy dobbins
Dear Congressman,
Thank you for the invitation. I hope all the members of the organizations sponsoring a visitor from the NEA to speak on multiculturalism, join me in urging you to urge the President to stand up for our Cynthia. This is what I wrote the president today after reading that the British have stood up for their Cynthia, and I haven’t heard a peep from our president, state department, or for that matter you or David Scott.
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Dear Mr. President,
Now that the British have publicly stood up for a woman who played the role in Northern Ireland that Cynthia McKinney has been trying to play between Zionists and Black Muslims for years, and has suffered more mud and character assassination than anyone (including myself and yourself) who persists in offering their lives for peace and justice, don’t you think you should stand up for her? I understand American Jews are withdrawing from AIPAC, which is responsible for most of the effort to destroy Cynthia’s moral charisma — and did end her Congressional career. I am not a savy politico. But count this a message from an Obama precinct captain who wants a little more backbone. I’d like you to calculate how much support from we-the-base that marshalled the mandate Democrats stand properly to lose to the Green Party in the next two elections, rather than Republicans. Look at what has happened in France.
Peggy Dobbins
Atlanta
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The matter is far from settled in Canada, Dave. Potlucks for Peace, the Jewish/Palestine dialog group I subscribe to, talks of reaching the Jewish “mainstream” — not realising,perhaps, that they *are* the mainstream. Perhaps my Beth Din can evolve something similar to J Street. It will be aninteresting question to put to the members.
Arie