Comments on: Many young Jews don’t see Israel as the promised land http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/09/11/many-young-jews-dont-see-israel-as-the-promised-land/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jews should only be tough, aggressive and angry | Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/09/11/many-young-jews-dont-see-israel-as-the-promised-land/comment-page-1/#comment-530920 Jews should only be tough, aggressive and angry | Antony Loewenstein Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:28:16 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=14288#comment-530920 [...] Following the publication of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine feature on the rise of J Street and more liberal Jewry, hardline Zionists have responded with anger (God forbid that Judaism is shown as anything other than violent). Here’s the Jerusalem Post’s Shmuel Rosner: J Street is “bringing highly placed Israeli peaceniks to spread their alternative message in Washington and beyond”? I have no problem with that as long as it tells people the truth about those “highly placed” peaceniks: that they travel to the US mainly because they have no influence and no constituency in Israel. [...] [...] Following the publication of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine feature on the rise of J Street and more liberal Jewry, hardline Zionists have responded with anger (God forbid that Judaism is shown as anything other than violent). Here’s the Jerusalem Post’s Shmuel Rosner: J Street is “bringing highly placed Israeli peaceniks to spread their alternative message in Washington and beyond”? I have no problem with that as long as it tells people the truth about those “highly placed” peaceniks: that they travel to the US mainly because they have no influence and no constituency in Israel. [...]

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