Saturday, March 02, 2013

Jewish Organizations' Failure


March 3, 2013
Nurit Greenger
Reading the article 'Hagel Without Tears' (http://www.nysun.com/editorials/hagel-without-tears/88207/) has brought up the question, are the organizations that suppose to represents Jewish causes and help Israel in the international arena doing their job?
When you read that Jewish organizations, such as American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) do not take a formal public position in cases, such as the nomination of Chuck Hagel to a Secretary of Defense you begin wondering, are they doing their job right?
PM Benjamin Netanyahu at AIPAC Annual Conference
 
When you read that Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) claims that the leaders of the Jewish organizations, mentioned above, were worried about the consequences for the Jewish community if they took an forceful position against Hagel's nomination, you know something is wrong; they do not have what it takes to lead.

The nomination of Chuck Hagel was an American issue, not only Israel's issue, or Jews, despite his mainstream anti-Semitism sentiments and his negative position on Israel and his favoritism of her foes. Hagel appeared to be simply unfit to be the Secretary of State of all Americans, not only American Jews. Had the Jewish organizations come out and lobbied against Hagel, there was a chance that he would have been stopped and that would have been good for every American.
In observation of what the Jewish organizations have done for us, Jews and Israel, lately, besides constantly asking for money to keep their doors open and raise funds, I come up rather empty handed.
Here is an interesting triangle: The Union of Reform (Deformed) Judaism (URJ) just came out against Israel building in area E-1, but it is actually promoting a J Street (J'ihad Street) event to take place in a URJ Temple Isaiah on Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, this after J Street advocated for Hagel nomination and called those who opposed Hagel smear artists. Is J Street for or against USA and Israel's interests?
We better get used to the word 'stealth'; there is full blown stealth jihad by Moslems against the non-Moslem world; there is also stealth civil war, the Left war against all that the Left is not for and does not supports; and there is a stealth civil war among Jews on wide spectrum of issues.
For instance, in my opinion, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of J Street is a stealth Israel hater and he needs to be confronted. That is what StandWithUs (SWU) will be doing on March 11, 2013 when the organization's CEO Roz Rostein will be debating Ben-Ami on the subject "Israel's Future and the Role of the American Jewish Community"; venue: Temple Isaiah, 10345 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles,90064. If you are still in the loop and you have not distanced yourself from Israel, as many Jews have done already, and you are concerned about Israel's future, join the efforts, go listen, make your voice heard.
With organizations such as J Street and even URJ influencing our Jewish youth we are raising generations who will be ashamed of Israel and will have nothing to do with the Homeland of the entire Jewish nation.
These organization are, for instance, blind to what the Palestinian Authority and Mahmud Abbas really are; they have whitewashed Jewish history and the real legal rights of the Jewish people to the land, not the land they elected to relate and deal with but all the land that make up the land of Eretz Israel. If we allow J Street, the Jewish organizations that have elected to shut up and religion based movements, turned political, such as URJ, to continue on their path, watch how fast the connection to Israel vanishes and anti-Semitism sentiments fill the vacuum in the West, including the United States. Failing to speak up when one had the chance has its detrimental consequences.
Time is dire. It appears that we have to redouble our efforts of telling the truth so many simply elected not to tell or hear. This is what Sarah N. Stern, Founder and President of EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth) tells us to do.
StandWithUs, should not be afraid to come up with a booklet that tells the truth about the Palestinian Authority, similar to the one they have issued on Hamas; political correctness and false hopes will not bring about peace with this Arabic entity. They have never been and are not a peace partner for Israel, no matter how one approaches this long conflict issues. In fact the PA are just like Hamas only that they have chosen the diplomatic and legal warfare against Israel rather than the arms' struggle, the operation path of Hamas. It is time to tell it as it is, not hide behind hopes, delusions, lies and deception, as we have been doing for decades.  Until these Islamo-jihadists change their education system NOTHING will make them a genuine peace partner for Israel, not now, not ever.
The world has lost a huge chunk of its moral compass, or perhaps it really did not have it. If we do not define what is right, make our case and then fight for it we are doomed.
If the Israeli Leadership Council (ILC), based in Los Angeles, promotes the SWU-J Street debate event, then their duty is to also keep the Los Angles-Israeli community well balanced on information; they should invite, for instance, Gerald Steinberg of the NGO Monitor who will update the community on what J Street, the New Israel Fund and Americans for Peace Now really are and how they are harming Israel and with that, indirectly, the entire world's Jewry.
People need to know that organization such as J Street wears the cloak of respectability but the fact is that it works to subvert Israel every day and its aggressive advocacy to see Hagel nominated is just the latest example.
Here is another idea: how about SWU running a campaign on campuses all over the world, to expose and delegitimize the fake pro-Israel groups? It is not just the covert and overt anti-Semitism on campus that is the problem, it is also the stealth jihad that is rampant there too. Just like it is not just Hamas that is the problem for Israel; the PA and its leadership and its head Abbas are too a major problem that is not properly dealt with. As if because they all wear suits and ties everyone lives with the delusion that they are not the terrorists they really are.  It is not just the Muslim Brotherhood that is the problem, it is also its USA front groups, including those the Jewish community supports and does "interfaith" meetings with, such as MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs counck) and ISNA, Islamic society of North America, that are the problem.
Here is a scenario our minds need to grasp and think along: in order to have Israel's Ambassador to the USA Mr. Michel Oren's approval, J Street declared they have changed their mind on the Goldstone Report, which they first promoted, now reject. BUT, when the PA went to UN to seek membership, against all the agreements it has signed with Israel, to which the USA and EU were witnesses, and members of Congress were passing a bill to deny any future funding for the PA and to shut its DC office, J Street made sure no such bill got a majority, and indeed it never passed.  In other words, J street has given a pass to Israel's enemy for its recalcitrant behavior, which undermines Israel's position in the international arena. That must not be tolerated.
So, it appears that AIPAC, ADL and AJC have been silenced. Silence can be death too.
NO more debates and parlor meetings. Action is needed. If Jews and Israel want to be respected, rather than bashed, expose and delegitimize those who demonize, delegitimize and subvert Israel and Jewish positions.
We have to re-evaluate everything we do because thus far we rank a failure.
There were over 600 rabbis who promoted Obama for a second term as president. This after his record was already shameful. Has anyone asked these rabbis why? What good is Obama brining to the entire American nation, to Israel and to the world? What has he done in the past 4 years that has made the USA and the world a better place to live? Name one!
I am well aware about the egos that run organizations, all functioning on the benevolence of the public. Have we asked them, what have you done for us lately?

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