[R-G] Message about "60 Minutes" and Palestine from J Street

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:17:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: Sid Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca>
>Subject: [R-G] Message about "60 Minutes" and Palestine from J Street
>
>This past Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a powerful and thoughtful report on the danger that Israeli settlements pose to the chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

There are many good reasons to oppose the racist Jewish settlements in areas on both sides of the "green line". But the probability that settlements to the East of that line will make a two-state version of the present apartheid system in Palestine less possible is NOT one of them.

> If you haven't watched the segment, it is must-see journalism.
>http://leninology.blogspot.com/2009/01/cbs-on-israel-palestine.html
>
>All week long, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon has been under attack for supposed "anti-Israel bias." CAMERA (the Orwellian-named Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) alerted their activist network - flooding the 60 Minutes' offices and their advertisers with angry phone calls charging media bias. [1] Jewish community leader Abe Foxman fired off a letter calling the
>piece a "hatchet job on Israel." [2]
>
>Journalists - as well as rabbis, professors and elected officials - know that if they raise questions about what Israel does - they'll often get attacked as anti-Israel. It's one way the forces of the status quo constrain debate and discussion on what's really best for Israel and the United States.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not interested in promoting "what's really best for Israel and the United States." Rather, I'm interested in subverting, undermining, and destroying those two political-economic-military entities that plague the planet and its peoples.

Groups like J Street are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

 - Aaron

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>Isaac Luria
>Online Director
>J Street
>January 29, 2009
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