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The Spectacle Blog
I had a funny feeling when I saw this New York Times headline:
Pro-Israel Groups Differ on Approaches Toward Iran
As soon as I saw the headline I knew that J Street would be included in the story.
Except that J Street isn’t a pro-Israel organization. The Israeli government certainly doesn’t think so. Last year, Israel’s Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein bluntly said, “They’re not pro-Israel, they’re not liberally Jewish. They’re anti-Israel.” (I should mention that when I was a teenager I campaigned for Edelstein’s release from a Soviet jail and had a chance meeting with him when I was in Israel in the summer of 1988.)
Just last week, J Street erroneously claimed the IDF had killed over a dozen Palestinians civilians when in fact the IDF had actually killed terrorists affiliated with Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees. While J Street scrubbed this claim from their website they did not issue a correction.
If the New York Times considers J Street a pro-Israel organization, it leaves me to wonder who they consider to be anti-Israel.
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Gerry| 3.18.12 @ 10:46PM
fanatically Zionist pro-Israel
Gerry| 3.18.12 @ 10:47PM
comment system took out symbol
again, they are 2 different things
American (ha ha) Spectator is the first
J Street is the second
William R| 3.18.12 @ 10:53PM
Goldstein is a fifth columnist.
http://jstreet.org/
Who in the hell hired this guy????
Clint| 3.19.12 @ 12:04AM
Bibi ?
Oldefarte| 3.19.12 @ 1:07PM
Well we all now know who/what is your employer, MEDIA MATTERS BOY-Clit:
'...... Dershowitz: Media Matters Attacks Against Israel Supporters 'Bigotry' Sunday, March 18, 2012 06:52 PMBy: Martin Gould and Kathleen WalterCharges by a blogger at the liberal Media Matters website that American supporters of Israel put Jerusalem’s interest above that of their nation are nothing more than “bigotry,” says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.“I turned down [the post of] Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations when Prime Minister Netanyahu offered me that job because I’m an American and I support America,” Dershowitz explained in the interview.“I don’t have to dual loyalty any more than any hyphenated Americans – Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Greek-Americans,” he added. “I’m a Jewish-American and I certainly have love for Israel, but I’m an American first.”
Dershowitz has been in a war of words with M.J. Rosenberg, the senior foreign policy fellow for the left-wing website Media Matters for America. Rosenberg attacked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) suggesting its loyalty lies with Jerusalem. “Saying AIPAC is guilty of dual loyalty is giving it credit for one more loyalty than it holds,” Rosenberg tweeted.“It’s gotten much worse. Media Matters has doubled down and M.J. Rosenberg has now said that his only response is to tell me to ‘go to H-E-L-L,’ and to urge my students to picket my classes, as if the students would listen to him,” Dershowitz said.“But he is worse than he has ever been,” added Dershowitz, explaining that Rosenberg in the past has defended Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and “applauded” former UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas for saying Jews should leave Israel and go to Poland.
“How dare M.J. Rosenberg accuse us of being Israel-firsters,” stormed Dershowitz.But he said his comments about Media Matters – the liberal site bankrolled by billionaire financial George Soros -- appear to have had an effect. Dershowitz said he believes the organization is no longer in regular contact with President Barack Obama’s White House.“The tent of the Democrats isn’t wide enough to include the bigotry of Media Matters and the White House has to clearly disassociate itself.
“Since I’ve spoken about this, my information is the White House has had no communications with Media Matters. They have not been invited to the White House.“So we are seeing statements of mine and others having some impact, he said adding that he now hopes Obama will formally disassociate himself in the way he repudiated the Rev. Jeremiah Wright before his 2008 election.”......'
Oldefarte| 3.19.12 @ 1:10PM
And how dare you Clit MM Boy also!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.19.12 @ 5:11PM
Speaking of MM and Clit:
'.... Media Matters Boasts to Al-Jazeera: Obama Mistreated Netanyahu by Ezra Dulis 14 hours ago 46post a comment A spokesman for Media Matters for America, which communicates directly with the White House in a weekly "strategy call," boasted in 2010 of President Obama's mistreatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a forum held by Al-Jazeera.The Daily Caller has published a report linking Media Matters for America to the anti-American, anti-Israel news network Al-Jazeera, primarily through the work of author M.J. Rosenberg, who has come under fire from Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz for using antisemitic language and alleging that American Jews display greater loyalty to Israel than the United States. Jamie Weinstein writes:Media Matters Action Network senior foreign policy fellow MJ Rosenberg’s column for the liberal organization regularly appears on Al-Jazeera’s website and, in 2010, Rosenberg represented Media Matters at a forum hosted by Al-Jazeera in Doha, Qatar where he praised the news outlet as “mainstream.” Media Matters Action Network is part of the organization’s political arm.According to two Daily Caller sources, the then-director general of Al-Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, also visited Media Matters’ offices in Washington in 2010 and met with the organization’s two top leaders, David Brock and Eric Boehlert.Representing Media Matters at the first Al-Jazeera “Unplugged” forum on social media at the Sheraton Hotel & Resort in Doha on May 22, 2010, Rosenberg explained that Khanfar invited him to the forum during a meeting in Washington earlier that year.In his stunning speech at the forum, Rosenberg praised Al-Jazeera as a “mainstream network,” bashed Fox News, suggested that the U.S. government intentionally bombed an Al-Jazeera bureau and expressed unreserved joy that President Obama was treating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so poorly.
Rosenberg expounded on the topic, claiming that the Obama Administration no longer considered America and Israel's relationship more special than with any other nation:“When Netanyahu came to Washington, no president has ever treated an Israeli prime minister as coldly as Netanyahu was treated by Obama,” Rosenberg said, with obvious joy, to what was presumably a largely Arab audience.“Suddenly Israel today is, even though it gets what it wants to a certain extent, Israel is treated as another country, a foreign country, which makes it no different than all the other foreign countries. That is what Obama is trying to do: take Israel away from being the 51st state and make it a foreign country like Lebanon or France or any normal foreign country.”“He has done that,” Rosenberg added. “You know, he has sent the Arab world signals from day one of where his heart is.” Rosenberg asserts that the President of the United States intentionally mistreated the Prime Minister of Israel to "send signals" to the Arab world. Since Rosenberg works for an organization that holds weekly "strategy calls" with the White House, it stands to reason that he may have been drawing upon insider information to make that claim.It's unlikely that the mainstream media will follow up on this story and press Obama on his "signals" to the Arab world or his true feelings on Israel. But from this information alone, it's apparent that the president's closest allies are not in the pro-Israel--or pro-American--camp.....'
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martin j smith| 3.19.12 @ 8:42AM
This story is not worth the bother except as a case example -yet again of what the NYT represents. DO NOT BUY THIS PAPER--it is pure garbage. It is Pravda and Izvestia of the USSR days in English Nothing more and nothing less. But, if you see it in good condition in the garbage and wish to take a chance go for it. !!!!!!!!!!!!
Zombie Reagan| 3.19.12 @ 10:10AM
No such thing as pro-Israel, Pro-peace group. Tel Aviv Aaron is a mouthpiece for Bibi.
Oldefarte| 3.19.12 @ 1:13PM
Speaking of a mouthpiece for STUPIDITY!!!!!
9thID| 3.19.12 @ 11:24AM
One has to wonder if Aaron is intentionally baiting the Robespierre Ron anti-Semite crowd just to prove what we conservatives already know about that Libertine cabal...
mzk1| 3.19.12 @ 12:20PM
Um, on behalf of all of the rational people, he is correct. J Street once again showed it's hand, and the NYT once again showed it's. No-one even knows who backs J Street.
Clearly there are people who seek out any article appearing to be pro-Israel and jump on it.
And Bibi is anything but right-wing, unfortunately. He bears an uncanny resemblance to Newt, down to the stewardess third wife.