{"id":372,"date":"2008-12-21T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2008-12-21T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T17:03:19","slug":"j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"J Street In The Obama Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstreet.org\/about\/about-us\"><strong>J Street<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>website&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;J Street is the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>J Street was founded to promote meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. We support a new direction for American policy in the Middle East and a broad public and policy debate about the U.S. role in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always a little suspicious about people trying to bring peace betwen Palestine and Israel.&nbsp; I guess my question is this:&nbsp; Right now, Israel has nukes and Palestine doesn&#8217;t, and two countries exist.&nbsp; If Palestine had nukes and Israel didn&#8217;t, how many countries would exist?<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/sorosinfluenced_groups_make_in.html\">American Thinker<\/a>&nbsp;J Street now has a number of people close to George Soros in key positions.&nbsp; Morton Haleprin is on the advisory council of J Street.&nbsp; He is described as a former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department.&nbsp; His current employment is not mentioned.&nbsp; <font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" size=\"3\">He is also George Soros&#8217;s <\/font><a style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsilverstein.com\/tikun_olam\/2008\/04\/17\/j-street-new-israel-peace-lobby-launches\/\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">top aide <\/font><\/a><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">and now serves as the Director of US Advocacy at the Open Society Institute: George Soros multi-billion dollar <\/font><\/span><a style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: normal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Morton_H._Halperin\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1em\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">activists group<\/font><\/a><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\"><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.25em\">.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>The article at American Thinker also mentions other groups that are coming&nbsp;into prominence as the Obama Administration forms.&nbsp;&nbsp;Much has been made about the &#8216;wonderful&#8217; middle of the road choices Obama has made to fill various positions in his administration.&nbsp; My concern is the people in the second and third tier appointments that may be&nbsp;hired under the radar.&nbsp; I believe that America&#8217;s continued support of Israel is an important positive part of our foreign policy.&nbsp;&nbsp;To undermine that support would be a mistake on multiple levels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the J Street&nbsp;website&#8221; &#8220;J Street is the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement. J Street was founded to promote meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israel conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. 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