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Sick of right-wing Jews speaking in their name, progressive American Jews have launched J Street to change the way the game is played in Washington.
  • nothing of the sort

    I laid out a chronology. If facts don't matter to you, then say "Facts don't matter to me". You'd be in good company, the antizionist historian Ilan Pappe says the same thing, literally "Facts have less a bearing on my work than ideology."

    I don't have a problem with that. I don't even care if you disregard such things like the fact that a quarter of the Jewish population of the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem was killed in the 1948 war and the other 3/4ths were kicked out. Or that 300 Jews were murdered in the 1929 Hevron pogrom and the several thousand were thrown out and that when the families came back to Hevron in the 90's they were literally reclaiming property that used to be theirs (be that as it may, the Jewish town of "Hevron" is actually Kiryat Arba which is about 15km outside of town far and away from any Arabs, plunked down on empty land).

    See, I'm not all that interested in whether you're a hater or not. To you it's 'Jews out Peace in!!!' push them in the oceans and when they're all gone worldwide peace will breakout for ever. That's fine if you believe that. Again, I don't really care either way. You will get your Jew-Free Palestine ethnically cleansed of the Jew menace and it won't matter either way, you'll find some way to blame the Jews for something.

    Did you ever see that movie "True Believer" when the young man points out to his skinhead neonazi buddies "If there was no Holocaust then why is Hitler such a great man?" Yeah it's kind of like that. I don't expect to change your mind, I don't worry about it either way. Belief systems like yours are counter rational, unperturbed by fact, reality or reason.