This is the first page of the story.
Any wishing to read the full piece can google the author's name, or go to Salon.
The big question for J Street is whether they can ever hope to match AIPAC in money, to pay the Washington whores to see things their way.
This story has two aspects. One is that Jewish tradition has tended to be liberal for centuries. Except, in th last half-century or so, on the matter of Israel. Then, we have seen the emergence of militaristic hawks.
Second, Jews are a very intelligent people, who well know their history.
So potent has The Lobby become in America (Pat Buchanan calls Congress, "Israel-Occupied Territory") that even the dullest tack in the box are startng to perceive that the voices that were most vocal in calling for he invasion of Iraq (and now for war on Iran), were those of Jewish nationalists masquering as good Americans (and often useing uselful idiot frontmen like Cheney and Rumsfeld).
Other peoples who at one time welcomed the persecuted Jews into their midst, later turned against them. England expelled them (they were mentioned negatively in the founding document of democracy, the Magna Carta) an Spain also booted them the same year that Columbus set sail to the New World.
With so much say in Congress and so much influence in the media, many American Jews have become nervous, and want to tone it down. Understandably so.
I wish J Street very good luck. They have their work cut out for them, trying to become an effective counterweight to AIPAC.
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