J street supporters admits the truth

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2118/changing_the_jewish_state_and_the_state_of_jews:_j_street_and_the_future_of_israel


So many things wrong with this Article but very interesting reading. Please remember the following as you read.

1) Israel has recognized and accepted a seperation of historic "Palestine" into Arab and Jewish in 1948 (partition)and has recognized a two state solution since 1991-- the arabs repeatedly refused to accept this

2) Palestinian Arabs refuse to acknowlege ANY jewish attachement or history to Israel.

3) Israeli Arabs have more rights in Israel than Palestinian arabs have under Palestinian rule (any arab in any arab country for that matter)

Changing the Jewish State and the State of Jews: J Street and the Future of Israel

Ambassador Oren clearly shares this view, which is why he recently described J Street as a “unique problem” and “out of the mainstream” of organized Jewish life. Oren argues that the organization “not only opposes one policy of one Israeli government, it opposes all policies of all Israeli governments.”


And so Oren and other critics of J Street on the right are correct—at least partly—in arguing that J Street’s positions put the very “survival of the Jewish state” into question. ....... J Street would never say this, of course, but it’s hard to imagine a different outcome (indeed, some of the most militant leaders of the settlement movement in the 1970s and 1980s argued that ultimately Palestinians would have to be given full civil and political rights).

Anti-Israel, to Some Degree

J Street cannot and will not change these dynamics on its own. And indeed, many on the more openly progressive Jewish left, who exist on the borderlines between Zionism and some form of post- or even anti-Zionist philosophy, are critical of many of J Street’s positions and discourse. Some argue that J Street is not being honest enough about Israeli policies and the need, not merely to support the Obama Administration’s peace efforts, but to be willing to put teeth behind them by threatening to cut off military aid to Israel if it doesn’t stop and withdraw most settlements and end the occupation.

Israelis of course know this full well. This is one reason why they distrust President Obama so much. While he hasn’t pushed them yet, they understand that to cross the precipice to peace will require Israel to radically change its basic political, economic, and ideological structure, which means changing their identity, and that of most of the world’s Jews as well