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U.S. official blasts Israel envoy's 'unfortunate' J-Street remarks

From HAARETZ

Back in November I posted an article
about Hannah Rosenthal a Jino who Obama
appointed for the anti-semitism czar. Mentioned
in the article were reasons why she was a bad
choice beside having ties with J Street, which
is a recent far left Jewish group that
claims to be pro Israel, pro Jewish, but
truly is not. J Street has many Muslim
financial backers, members on it's list,
not to mention alot of far left Jews that
have made hating Israel their passion.


So what does Ms. Rosentahl do on her
trip to Jerusalem? She goes after Michael
Oren the Israeli Ambassador to the United
States. Calling this czar a troll maybe too
polite. What was Oren's horrendous error
that unleashed this viper's rath? Oren
rightfully criticized J Street.


Here is a comment from a State Department
spokesman about this incident State Department spokesman named Jeff Feltman:


"The Department of State values its close relationship with Ambassador Michael Oren and his staff at the Embassy of Israel in Washington. The United States and Israel enjoy extraordinarily close ties based on shared values, interests, and history, as well as the deep bonds between the Israeli people and the American people. Ambassador Oren plays an indispensible role in maintaining and strengthening our relationship through his day to day interaction with the Administration and Congress on issues of vital importance to both countries and his vigorous outreach to Americans of all origins and points of view."

Here is the article from HAARETZ

Remarks by Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, against the liberal Jewish lobby J Street were "most unfortunate" according to Hannah Rosenthal, head of the U.S. administration's Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.


In an interview with Haaretz in Jerusalem, where Rosenthal was the administration's envoy to the Foreign Ministry's Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, Rosenthal, who once served on J street's board of directors, said she opposes blurring the lines between anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel.

"It is not 1939," she said. "We have the state of Israel. We have laws in countries that are holding people accountable."

When Ambassador Michael Oren turned down J Street's request to be keynote speaker at its first annual conference, and chose not to attend, debate over the group, already intense in the American Jewish community, reached as far as Jerusalem.

J Street was established a few years ago as a new pro-Israel lobby to counterbalance the strong, veteran group AIPAC, considered to toe a more right-wing conservative line.

Under the motto is "pro-Israel, pro-peace," J Street began to promote issues like a freeze on settlement construction and a two-state solution.

While the U.S. administration embraced J Street, which lends its unqualified support to U.S. President Barack Obama, the Israeli government turned a cold shoulder to the group. Obama's national security adviser, General James Jones, gave the keynote speech at the conference, while Israel sent a low-level official, claiming that J Street works against Israel's interests.

Rosenthal, who also served on the board of directors of left-wing group Americans for Peace Now, said she believed Oren "would have learned a lot" if he had participated in J Street's conference.

"I came away realizing what a generational divide there is and I don't know how it is in Israel. Young people want to be part of the discussion, they feel they have fresh ideas and they feel that we have to end the stalemate," she said.

Rosenthal strongly believes that new and different voices need to be heard regarding Israel in the American Jewish community.

"We need to have as many people coming together to try and put an end to this crisis, the matzav [situation] can not continue - it's unacceptable and that's why I always paid my membership to AIPAC, but I have always paid my membership to Americans for Peace Now - because they all need to be supported and they all need to be at the table."

"We may disagree on different paths to get there - but we need to at least admit that peace is the goal and security is the goal," she said.

Rosenthal, 58, who held senior positions in the Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, said she met Obama in Chicago when he was still a senator.

She said criticism of her appointment in the Obama administration, from the leaders of some American Jewish organizations, was "from a very few people who blog a lot."

Although she did not say outright what she thought Israel should do regarding the peace process, when pressed, she said: "I lived in Israel in 1973 in the bomb shelters. I don't want my kids or my grandchildren to have to ever come visit their homeland and to live in a bomb shelter - that is what I mean when I say the matzav ... Sometimes I wonder what it does to the psyche of people and children to know that they have to know where the nearest bomb shelter is - that's not okay. As a peace loving person and as a Jew who wants my kids to feel comfortable here - I think that's what I mean that the matzav cannot continue."

Rosenthal's position, founded during former president George W. Bush's term, was upgraded by Obama when he symbolically moved her office to the same floor in the building housing the State Department where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her office.

"We have seen huge increases in anti-Semitism. Research shows that 46 percent of the population in Spain has negative views of Jews - in Spain. Two days ago it was reported that anti-Semitic incidents in France more than doubled last year. Ninety-five percent of the Jordanians and Egyptians have negative views of Jews. How can we hope to get to this goal with this climate," Rosenthal said.

When asked to comment on the view of some in the Israeli government that the Goldstone report was anti-Semitic, Rosenthal said: "I do believe that some of the criticism against Israel is anti-Semitism but not all of it is. And I think that healthy democracies - and Israel is one - has to do self reflection and the world looks at the light unto the nations and says I agree to this policy or I don't agree - that is not anti-Semitism. But having the UN single out Israel for 170 resolutions over the last five years - when everybody knows that Sudan is committing genocide and they have only five resolutions. When Israel is the only agenda item on the human rights council - I think it's legitimate to look at this singling out, holding Israel to a different standard than the rest of the world. I think that crosses the line to anti-Semitism."

"But it is not anti-Semitic to look at a certain policy of Israel and say - I disagree with it. Half of the population in Israel isn't anti-Semitic by not agreeing with policies," Rosenthal said.

Rosenthal's father is a Holocaust survivor, the sole survivor of his family.

"I said to my father at this point - 'dad how did you survive?' And he turned to me and said - 'I survived to have you.' This is why I am so driven and have a feeling of urgency for this issue," she said.

This woman and the other far left czars that
Obama has been appointing are dangerous not
only to Israel, but to our very own safety and
security here and abroad. Some of the things
ahe states above are ridiculous, in my opinion.
She lived in Israel in 1973 and said it is not 1939
anymore. Hey Hannah, it is returning to be like
1939 again and Israel is even more threatened
than it was back in 1973 from Islamofacism and
Islam gone wild. I am sure Obama is proud of the
job this Jino is doing so far.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137296.html
http://callofthepatriot.blogspot.com/2009/11/jino-troll-appointed-by-obama-to-serve.html

JINO troll appointed by Obama to serve as anti-semitism Czar. She is a member of the nasty J-Street group.

Hannah Rosenthal appointed by
Obama to lead anti-semitism group
with her brand of ant-semitism
towards Israel and Jews. She is a
traitor and a JINO. She is a board
member of J-Street that receives
much of it's funding from Arab and
far left Jews that HATE Israel.

This is what the voters got when

they elected the first Muslim president

of the United States. There will be more to

come. It is just a matter of time.

 
From:Jihad Watch and World Net Daily
Obama appoints anti-Israel lobbyist as anti-Semitism czar


The proliferation of czars is a Constitutional issue, but aside from that, the jihadis worldwide must be extraordinarily happy over Obama's consistent anti-Israel line. "Anti-Israel lobbyist appointed to anti-Semitism post: J Street pick hints Jewish state to blame for hatred against its people," by Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily, November 26:



President Obama's new anti-Semitism czar serves on the board of a controversial Israel-lobby group accused of working against the Jewish state, while her writings suggest Israel's policies are to blame for anti-Semitism.

Hannah Rosenthal, a former Health Department regional director under the Clinton administration, started her position earlier this week as the State Department's new special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. She previously headed the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an umbrella U.S. Jewish organization.



Rosenthal, however, serves on the board of J Street, a lobby group that is mostly led by left-leaning Israelis and that receives funds from Arab and Muslim Americans.



J Street brands itself as pro-Israel. It states on its website it seeks to "promote meaningful American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically."



J Street, however, also supports talks with Hamas, a terrorist group whose charter seeks the destruction of Israel. The group opposes sanctions against Iran and is harshly critical of Israeli offensive anti-terror military actions.



Even the Israeli government has been distancing itself from J Street, with its ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, refusing to attend its annual dinner last month. Israeli Embassy spokesman Yoni Peled told the Jerusalem Post his government has some "concern over certain [J Street] policies that could impair Israel's interests."...



http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/obama-appoints-anti-israel-lobbyist-as-anti-semitism-czar.html

http://www.wnd.com/

J Street: A most vile and disgusting organization.

I have posted this entire article about J Street
Thanks to Bare Naked Islam!

Link is below the feed.

‘J STREET’ JEWS TO THE OVENS

Imagine another Jew making a statement like that. Well, I just did and here’s why.

J STREET JEWS PROTECTING THE QUARTERBACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE

J Street seems to pop up in all the right places lately, buoyed and immunized by indulgent, adoring anduncritical journalists. The upstart lobby was invited to join other Jewish organizations in a July meeting with US President Barack Obama; a month later it attended a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The New York Times magazine published the latest paean to J Street, portraying it as brash and brave, representative of 92 percent of American Jewry (Totally untrue). Frankly, the Times article is missing so many components and questions about the “pro-Israel” organization that it cannot be viewed as anything other than J Street puffery.

For instance, the writer, James Traub, devotes considerable effort to show how J Street is in touch with American Jewish opinion on issues such as Israeli settlements and American engagement in the peace process. J Street commissioned “an extensive poll of Jewish opinion on Middle East issues,” Traub wrote.

But Traub failed to report the recent and shocking exposé, written in Commentary by Noah Pollak, that J Street’s poll was conducted by J Street’s own former vice president, Jim Gerstein. “J Street not only commissions polls,” Pollak wrote, “it writes the questions, conducts them, analyzes the results and then carries out promotional campaigns with the findings. If you were wondering how it was possible that J Street could repeatedly produce ‘polling data’ that almost perfectly complements the group’s political agenda, now we have one important clue.”

THE TIMES‘S Traub failed to report on the identity of J Street’s broader leadership and decision-makers. Who are the organization’s funders? Traub reports on the 50-member finance committee, the existence of which was revealed in a Jerusalem Post article last month. The Post revealed names of some of the members: “The finance committee with a $10,000 contribution threshold,” the Post wrote, “includes Lebanese-American businessman Richard Abdoo, a current board member of Amideast and a former board member of the Arab American Institute (AAI), and Genevieve Lynch, who is also a member of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) board.“

J Street’s Web site presents its distinguished 170-member “advisory council,” a display case of wealthy progressive Jews and former US diplomats to the Middle East, including several who became foreign agents working the halls of Washington for Arab countries.

Traub should have asked what role George Soros plays in the organization.

J Street billionaire, George Soros, was a Nazi Collaborator

George Soros’ obsession with making Judea and Samaria Judenrein has its roots in his experience as a Nazi collaborator in Hungary. This is not a baseless accusation, but is admitted to by Soros himself, as seen in the following excerpt from Front Page Magazine.

While it might be understandable that Soros did what was necessary to survive, it is not understandable that he shows no remorse for his actions. Worse, he and his present-day J Street collaborators intend to redefine Jewish identity, removing the central importance of Eretz HaQodesh and reducing Judaism to nothing but another culture with no more value than any other culture.

[NB: Soros, like Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, Rev. Jerimiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and Shimon Peres thinks that Israel is a regime that needs to be opposed rather than accepted.] LINK

J Street’s disturbing alliance with the Iranian lobbying group, the National Iranian American Council, is also ignored by the Times’s tribute. J Street and NIAC directors coauthored a Huffington Post article earlier this year arguing against new sanctions on Iran.

One fact the Times magazine seems to get right: “J Street shares the Obama administration’s agenda.” But the Times should have gone on to ask the nature of J Street’s relationship with senior officials in the Obama administration. ” At the height of Israel’s Gaza operation in December 2008, J Street’s evenhanded statement on the fighting was very similar to that of David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser, who, speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, avoided endorsing Israel’s military action. JERUSALEM POST



Here is another post I included on J Street.

J STREET IS SELLING SNAKE OIL

What does it mean when one represents oneself as “pro-peace,” and how do we measure whether something really is? And what does it mean to represent oneself as “pro-Israel?” In order to qualify, one would at least have to support the existence of that state, and to disassociate with and defend against those who want to expunge it. On its website, in its literature, in the glossy mailings sent to government officials, universities, synagogues and individuals, J Street garbs itself as “pro-peace” and “pro-Israel.” But let’s peek underneath the costume to see whether J Street really is what it claims to be.

For years Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the map, denied the Holocaust as a trick to justify the establishment of Israel, and has predicted the end of Israel and of the United States. President Barack Obama recently revealed that Iran has been lying for years about a secret underground nuclear plant. Iran is closer to its goal of nuclear weapons than officials previously thought. Obviously any entity so publicly and enduringly committed to death, destruction and deception is a major obstacle to global peace. Surely any pro-peace organization would support every possible means of ensuring that this country, nominally headed by a highly volatile dictator (whose strings are pulled by fanatical mullahs waiting for the 12th Imam to come up out of a well on Judgment Day), would be prevented from completing its race towards nuclear weapons.

But even after Obama revealed Iran’s secret nuclear plant, J Street’s position remains unequivocal: it is “strongly opposed to any consideration at this time” of “further sanctions” against Iran, and it is of course categorically opposed to “the use of military force by Israel or the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.” As the peace window is closing, J Street opposes swift, decisive action to prevent it from slamming shut.

Now let’s look at whether J Street’s positions concerning Israel are calculated to ensure a real and lasting peace between Israel and its enemy neighbors.

The raison d’etre of the terrorist group Hamas is the annihilation of Israel. In January, 2009, Israel deployed a military response intended to eliminate the continuation of years of violent attacks by Gazans against Israeli civilians. Surely the cessation of attacks on its people is a necessary part of ensuring a country’s existence. J Street claims that “it recognizes the unquestioned right of Israel to take action to answer acts of terror and violence.” But it came out strongly against Israel’s efforts at self-defense. Better, apparently, so far as J Street was concerned to let the rockets continue to fall, as they have for years, on Israeli towns.

In its hegemonic insistence on the immediate creation of a Palestinian state, J Street is President Obama’s self-described “blocking back” determined to impose a two-state solution on the Israelis and the Palestinians in the shortest possible timeframe.

JEWS FOR PALESTINE

The participants resist the creation of two states for different reasons —the Palestinian leadership, both Hamas and Fatah, will only be satisfied with one state: a Palestinian one — and no Jewish one, as they have acknowledged repeatedly, in public and in private, in Arabic and in English, and to continue its armed “resistance” in order to achieve that goal. The Israelis will not agree to a Palestinian State until they are assured it will recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish State, and they insist on continuing to protect themselves from the Arabs’ armed “resistance,” which is itself another costume, beneath which is the use of weapons to attack all Israelis, including unarmed civilians.

Those are the reasons there has been no breakthrough in the “peace process,” not because Israel’s allies have applied insufficient pressure on Israel. This imperialist view ignores the vital essence of each participant. And J Street is pushing an approach that will guarantee a violent, bloody and long-term conflagration. Again, the contrary of working towards a lasting peace.

So why does J Street keep claiming it is pro-peace and pro-Israel? And, more importantly, what does that mean for people, especially politicians, who lend their names to such an organization precisely because being pro-peace and pro-Israel is being sold as the current miracle elixir?

Perhaps we need to turn to Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of J Street, for an explanation. He publicly stated: “We’re trying to redefine what it means to be pro-Israel.” He neglected to tell us that J Street is also redefining what it means to be pro-peace. Let’s take Ben-Ami at his word. But let’s make sure everyone buying the J Street snake oil understands what they’re drinking.


http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/j-street-jews-to-the-ovens/