Curious also, isn’t it, that Palestinian insistence that Jews have no connection to what is now Israel and the Temple was not on the hill is never met with calls for the Arabs to face reality and the justice of at least some of Israel’s positions? AlsoJune 4, 1967 lines. At that date the Arab view was that there were and could not be recognized Israeli borders and the lines merely reflected where the Arabs had for the moment agreed to stop fighting.

I think a description of J Street as pro-Israel in any real sense is misplaced. The group could not decide which side to support in Operation Cast Lead, which rendered them less pro-Israel than the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. And recently it supported a presentation of Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children,” a playlet which is not only factually false but has no real distinction from the blood libel.

J Street claimed they didn’t necessarily endorse the sentiments of the drama but thought it was important to start a conversation. I had two responses: 1. There’s hardly a dearth of “conversation” on the issue; and 2. What sort of conversation would be prompted by “Seven Jewish Children?” Are we going to discuss whether Jews are bloodthirsty murderers who delight in using the Holocaust as an excuse to kill Palestinian children?