Another Lost for Posterity Letter to the NYT Editor

I guess this, too, is not going to get published:-

Jeremy Ben-Ami misleads when he writes in his letter that "Unlike elements of Israel’s government, most Jewish Americans favor a two-state solution, restricting settlement growth and active American leadership to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict",("Politics and the Mideast", Dec. 1). In the first instance, "elements" or not, Israel's current government policy is to assist in the establishment of a two-state solution, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pronounced over a year ago in his Bar-Ilan speech. In addition, Israel's government severely restricted, indeed froze, construction in the Jewish communities across the former Green Line armistice line - a move that did not move the Arabs to negotiate - and has been working closely with American leaders for decades to achieve a peace settlement.

However, in the second instance, as regards Jewish American opinion, J Street polls have been shown to be highly suspect, misleading, unreliable and, being in-house managed, a product of narrow progressive political ideology, a system totally rejected by American Jewry. Ben-Ami is simply on the wrong corner.

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