J Street Chief: Yeah, We’d Support Obama if He Cut Aid to Israel
Before J Street’s inaugural conference, the group’s director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, gave an interview to Jeffrey Goldberg in which he stated flatly that U.S. aid to Israel should not be used as leverage in peace negotiations. “Military aid should not be on the table — this is an absolutely essential aspect of Israel’s security, and it’s [...]
J Street’s Muslim Money
From the very beginning, J Street’s strategy has been to claim that it would represent a very large and very underserved segment of American Jewish opinion — a moderate middle that has somehow been marginalized by groups like AIPAC. Yet it seems this mythical group of Jews who were heretofore unable to speak for themselves [...]
Obama Is For Democracy, Except When He’s Not
From Obama’s presser today with Uribe:
Over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don’t always mean that the leaders of those countries are favorable to the United States — and that is a tradition [...]
