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Originally posted by andViolins
I'm not sure I understand this. I know that Zbigniew Bzrezinski signed onto the October 2007 letter stating that Hamas needed to be included in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. While a recent survey of Israelis shows that a majority believe that Israel should negotiate a cease-fire with Hamas, I am not aware of a similar belief amongst U.S. Jews. In regard to Israel, I do not believe that a vast majority of U.S. Jews would agree with Obama's advisors.
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What don't you understand? Why Slave thinks that views in accord with the majority of Israelis make one "anti-Israel"? I concur.
If you think most American Jews would disagree with Obama's advisors, I would be curious to know about what, because their views are not particularly outre.
Here's Max Boot -- Slave's kind of guy, I think --
defending Samantha Power (in Commentary!):
- I’ve known Power for six years and have never heard her say anything that I would construe as anti-Israel. In fact, at a December 2006 forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School at which we were both panelists, she rather forcefully dismissed a claim by a Jewish anti-Zionist in the audience who tried to equate Israeli policy with South African apartheid—a favorite trope of the hard left.
Of course the genius of the "anti-Israel" smear is that it's a lot harder to try to defend yourself from that sort of crap than it is to make the cheap accusation.
