Writing The Wrongs: J-Street endorsed congressman sponsored anti-Israel resolution

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

J-Street endorsed congressman sponsored anti-Israel resolution

Yesterday, I reported on a one-sided anti-Israel resolution that was considered (and tabled for further consideration) by the North Carolina Democratic Party st their state convention this past weekend.

The resolution, which blames only Israel for all problems of the area and calls to recognize Hamas as a peace partner, was sponsored by the 4th Congressional District of North Carolina, which includes Chapel Hill.

(See Page 12, name of resolution:
26. BRINGING A JUST PEACE TO THE MIDDLE
EAST: ISRAEL AND PALESTINE (4TH CD) )

The member of Congress representing that district is David Price, an eleven term congressman.

J-Street, the purportedly pro-Israel organization, enthusiastically endorses Price:

Apparently, J-Street agrees that US military aid to Israel must be eliminated, that Hamas must be recognized, and that the PLO bears no responsibility for anything.

Can J-Street explain to us exactly what makes this one-sided joke of a resolution "pro-Israel" and why they are soliciting money to donate to this nutcase? I'd really love to know.

(h/t Hard Little Machine and Bella Center)

sabril • 3 hours ago
If I understand your post correctly, the proposal was made at the state level. So if Price is a representative at a national level, he wasn't necessarily responsible for the resolution.
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- Ian • 3 hours ago • parent
  It's The North Carolina Democratic Party. So all Dems in NC including congressmen would be members.
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Ian • 3 hours ago
From the text :
“A halt to further construction of the wall;
An end to the Gaza blockade;
The establishment of a nuclear free zone in the Middle East;
Redirecting U.S. Military aid to Israel to promote social and economic development for peace in both Israel and Palestine;”
Translation: we’ll tie you down and wait for the terrorists to slit your throat.
So many dumb things, borders, illegal settlements, the blockade, expropriated Palestinian land. Someone’s been drinking the J-Street Kool-Aid. This is even more uniformed than the Marrickville boycott from last year.
It appears all the only policy the Dems think is a winner is hating Jews.
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Ian • 5 hours ago
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neurodoc001 • 5 hours ago
Some of J Street's endorsements of "pro-Israel" candidates have been more outrageous, some less outrageous. (In the last election cycle, they endorsed a Jewish woman from the SF Bay area who was as bad on Israel as the most anti-Israel representatives in Congress. Fortunately, she lost by a wide margin.) It would be helpful to have a list of the most outrageous of them over time along with a capsule account of their records on Israel. Price could go on the list. Other nominees for such a list?

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Ted Belman

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Before advancing any money, why don’t they insist

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It began with this...

The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the
achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.2

Signed,
Arthur James Balfour
[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]

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