[Peace-discuss] J-Street

[David Green]

Granted that Weiss is erratic, and often says the right thing for the wrong 
reasons.

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?

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.

DG




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From: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 10:47:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] J-Street

Phil Weiss praises J Street:

J Street is liberating Jews from Zionism. So far so good
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/j-street-is-liberating-jews-from-zionism-so-far-so-good.html


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:30 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Phil Weiss, no leftist, turns against J-Street.
>
>http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/ignoring-the-arab-spring-j-st-lobbies-for-more-money-for-a-govt-thats-cracked-down-on-protesters.html
>l
>
>
> "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?"
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