J Street (and friends) loses direction on Gaza again - by Stephen M. Flatow

...Those who sit on the Upper West Side or on the banks of the Potomac, dreaming of the creation of a Palestinian state, tend to spend too much time reading The New York Times and The Washington Post, and watching MSNBC. In their little bubble, they genuinely believe that an article in the Times or a segment on MSNBC determines the direction that the world will take. That’s what’ important to them, so they assume it must be important to everyone else, too.

Stephen M. Flatow..
JNS.org..
03 May '18..

I’m sure there have been plenty of smiles and high-fives over at J Street headquarters in recent weeks. At the offices of Amnesty International and Jewish Voice for Peace, too, they’re probably almost giddy.

Israel is being denounced on op-ed pages and in the halls of the United Nations for its actions on the Gaza border, and there’s nothing like a hearty round of international Israel-bashing to cheer the hearts of the J Streeters and their ilk.

But they may be celebrating just a bit too soon.

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Stephen M. Flatow, a vice president of the Religious Zionists of America, is an attorney in New Jersey. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

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