Friday, December 03, 2010

Another Lost for Posterity Letter to the NYT Editor

I guess this, too, is not going to get published:-

Jeremy Ben-Ami misleads when he writes in his letter that "Unlike elements of Israel’s government, most Jewish Americans favor a two-state solution, restricting settlement growth and active American leadership to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict",("Politics and the Mideast", Dec. 1). In the first instance, "elements" or not, Israel's current government policy is to assist in the establishment of a two-state solution, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pronounced over a year ago in his Bar-Ilan speech. In addition, Israel's government severely restricted, indeed froze, construction in the Jewish communities across the former Green Line armistice line - a move that did not move the Arabs to negotiate - and has been working closely with American leaders for decades to achieve a peace settlement.

However, in the second instance, as regards Jewish American opinion, J Street polls have been shown to be highly suspect, misleading, unreliable and, being in-house managed, a product of narrow progressive political ideology, a system totally rejected by American Jewry. Ben-Ami is simply on the wrong corner.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The fight is not with ourselves. We need to grow and reinforce Isreael's flagging support and to spend any time at all treating J Street as an enemy is to lose focus on the larger issues. J Street is very much pro Israel and Ben Ami's statement is factually accurate. And to close by questioning the accuracy of the polling data with no proof that the questions or methodology is problematic is disappointing

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YMedad said...

on the reliability of those J Street polls, try this

goldbrener said...

It doesn't really matter that most American Jews favor a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. We (American Jews) don't have to live there (Israel).

Everyone on Earth seems to favor the 2 stat solution except Israel & the Palestinians. That's why it hasn't been implemented for 65 years. It's like the wisdom of Solomon. Makes sense on paper, not in real life.

Begin said "partition is an abombination".