[Peace-discuss] J-Street

[C. G. Estabrook]

"The liberal doth protest too much, methinks..."

Aren't attempts to co-opt principled critics of the US/Israeli crimes in the 
Mideast obvious?

It is remarkable that Obama got away with co-opting anti-war sentiment in the 
last presidential election, as Robert Kennedy attempted to do long ago with the 
anti-Vietnam war movement.  (Obama had paid attention to that earlier movement, 
as his book shows.)

But isn't it blindingly obvious that J Street exists to do the same thing in 
regard to American liberals' view of Israel?

It's practically a mathematical certainty that the AIPAC bad-cop would generate 
the J-Street good-cop. Why is there any surprise?

It's important to remember that in good-cop/bad-cop scenarios, it's the bad cop 
who's the honest one.


On 3/4/11 12:50 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
>  ...I'm against a sectarian, totalizing, ultra-left
>  Spartacist-style rhetoric against J Street that portrays it as an
>  evil cabal that is worse than AIPAC, and that claims that a broad
>  assault on J Street ought to be at the center of left critique...

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