J Street is a negative

Marty Peretz observes that “since J Street was putting out its banners on the Jewish street, it defined itself as it had to: yes, ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace.’ But in a very palpable sense it was not pro-Israel in that it favored every cockamamie strategy and tactic, personality and group (and grouplet), slogan and world-view that put the Jewish homeland in peril. In the end, almost everyone came to realize that J Street would not and maybe could not be supportive of a Jewish homeland until every last Palestinian was satisfied.”

National Security Adviser James Jones announces that the Palestinian-Israeli problem is the most important problem in the whole wide world. (Kind of gives away the game on Iran going nuclear, doesn’t it?) Prediction: his promise that the administration will be represented at future J Street conferences won’t be adhered to by any other administration (should J Street last that long).

Ambassador Michael Oren says his concerns about J Street haven’t been “sufficiently allayed.” Not after the past two days, certainly