SOROSASTRIAN AT J STREET: ISRAEL’S CREATION WAS AN ACT THAT WAS WRONG”….SEE NOTE PLEASE
JAMES BAKER THE BUSH/REAGAN PAL WHO ROSE TO PROMINENCE AS SEC. OF STATE ALSO THOUGHT SO AND IT WAS WRITTEN IN HIS PRINCETON THESIS…..RSK
J Street Founder: Israel’s Creation ‘An Act That Was Wrong’
The Weekly Standard
BY Daniel Halper
October 6, 2010 3:30 PM
Never mind for a moment that J Street lied about accepting George Soros’s money, that the so-called pro-Israel group is accepting cash from a mysterious foreign national, and that J Street helped facilitate Richard Goldstone’s visit to Capitol Hill — though all three troubling facts have rightly been in the news a lot lately.
Here’s a shameful — and wrong — history lesson from one of J Street’s co-founders, Daniel Levy, and it should dispel any remaining claim that J Street is in fact a pro-Israel group:
One can be a utilitarian two-stater, in other words think that the practical pragmatic way forward is two states. This is my understanding of the current Hamas position. One can be an ideological two-stater, someone who believes in exclusively the Palestinian self-determination and in Zionism; I don’t believe that it’s impossible to have a progressive Zionism. Or one can be a one-stater. But in either of those outcomes we’re going to live next door to each other or in a one state disposition. And that means wrapping one’s head around the humanity of both sides. I believe the way Jewish history was in 1948 excused – for me, it was good enough for me – an act that was wrong. I don’t expect Palestinians to think that. I have no reason – there’s no reason a Palestinian should think there was justice in the creation of Israel.
Translation for this: The founding of the Jewish state in the land of Israel was unjust. Quite plainly, there is no other way to read this bit.
According to the source for this quotation, Mere Rhetoric, Levy also went on to excuse terrorism against innocent Israelis by saying, “it’s ‘natural’ for Gazans to want to attack Israelis.”
So, what’s Levy’s role in J Street? He’s a co-founder, but he’s also listed on a recent tax return as being a member of its board. Political groups reflect the views of the people who founded them and the folks that sit on their boards. There is absolutely no reason to believe that J Street, through its actions, does not reflect the views that Levy holds.
Anti-Israel folks and groups abound. Curiously, though, very few of these pretend to be pro-Israel.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/j-street-founder-israels-creation-act-was-wrong_500995.html
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phone: 610.664.1184
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