J Street.

Ezra Klein:

With 1/100th AIPAC's budget, the organization is not likely, as some are hoping, to prove a quick counterweight to the existent Israel Lobby. But they are a new Jewish voice that honors and shields those who would express their support for Israel by seeking peace, rather than supporting conflict. Speaking as a Jew who's been to Israel and fears for his best friend who'll live in Tel Aviv this summer; as an American repulsed by our complicity in the ethically indefensible expansion of the settlements and worried about our standing in the Arab world; and as a decent person who laments the fear and anger that poisons the lives of Jews and Palestinians alike, it's long past time that the quiet majority who seeks peace and is exhausted by the continued prosecution of past grudges and grievances asserted our role, and created a conversation in which participants didn't need to fear the backlash that would result if they prioritized the search for security above the positions adopted by Likud.

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