New York – Breaking with his previous restraint, Israel’s ambassador to the United States delivered an unprecedented blast against J Street, the new dovish Israel lobby that has made waves in Washington and throughout the Jewish community.
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Addressing a breakfast session at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s biennial convention December 7, Ambassador Michael Oren described J Street as “a unique problem in that it not only opposes one policy of one Israeli government, it opposes all policies of all Israeli governments. It’s significantly out of the mainstream.”
After a speech that touched on the spiritual basis for and the threats to the state of Israel, Oren issued an unscripted condemnation of J Street.
“This is not a matter of settlements here [or] there. We understand there are differences of opinion,” Oren said. “But when it comes to the survival of the Jewish state, there should be no differences of opinion. You are fooling around with the lives of 7 million people. This is no joke.”
To little to late
as they say: “better latter then ever”!!!
kol hakavod to Ambassador Michael Oren.
happy chanukah
In the newly released book, Search Judaism: Judaism’s Answers to a Changing World (Targum, 2009), the author decisively and objectively proves that the land of Israel can’t be subject to the norms, dictates, or standards that groups like J Street would aver. The author corroborates his assertion with substantive science that Israel is an entity that defies and transcends. If you haven’t read the book and you are truly open-minded, I suggest you give it a good read. If the author’s stance is correct (and it seems to be irrefutable), it is incumbent on us to approach Israel from a different perspective, not the one that J Street and others espouse, which relegates Israel to just another piece of mundane territory on the map.
Why don’t we in the Cahreidi commnuity speak out against J Street? Why do we leave these amtters to other groups? Let’s demonstrate in front of their offices! Drown them in e-mails and letters!