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<DIV>Last evening I got most of the way through a 90 minute J-Street panel which included an arrogant talk by Dennis Ross, and follow-up comments by Daniel Levy and Bernard Avishai after Ross left (also Roger Cohen). Ross treated the crowd like it was AIPAC, and got tepid applause (but applause nonetheless) for reassuring them about the "unbreakable bond" or some such thing. Are such people (I mean the audience) a constituency for a just peace for the Palestinians?</DIV>
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<DIV>The whole thing strikes me as insider politics, which is why I find it repulsive. The Palestinians need a revolution, and there will be no revolution from the top down. There isn't a Palestinian whose views and work I respect who would be in that crowd, I don't think. It's all based on a denial--especially noticable with Avishai--of the revolt against neoliberalism. That has to happen on the streets, not in such conferences, in any of the countries involved.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Robert Naiman <naiman@justforeignpolicy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peace Discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, March 4, 2011 10:47:47 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] J-Street<BR></FONT><BR>Phil Weiss praises J Street:<BR><BR>J Street is liberating Jews from Zionism. So far so good<BR><A href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/j-street-is-liberating-jews-from-zionism-so-far-so-good.html" target=_blank>http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/j-street-is-liberating-jews-from-zionism-so-far-so-good.html</A><BR><BR>On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:30 AM, David Green <<A href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>><BR>> Phil Weiss, no leftist, turns against J-Street.<BR>><BR>> <A href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/ignoring-the-arab-spring-j-st-lobbies-for-more-money-for-a-govt-thats-cracked-down-on-protesters.html" target=_blank>http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/ignoring-the-arab-spring-j-st-lobbies-for-more-money-for-a-govt-thats-cracked-down-on-protesters.html</A><BR>><BR>><BR>> "So the best J Street could do in lobbying was to push for aid to the PA for a force that will crack down on Palestinian demonstrators -- in the midst of revolutions against such forces all over the Middle East?"<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Peace-discuss mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A><BR>> <A href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss"
target=_blank>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</A><BR>><BR><BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Robert Naiman<BR>Policy Director<BR>Just Foreign Policy<BR>www.justforeignpolicy.org<BR><A href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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