Monday, May 17, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Richard Landes: The Contempt of the 'Right-Thinking' Peacock Rhinos: J-Street goes after Wiesel. - 'Elie Wiesel published a major ad, "For Jerusalem," in several US newspapers, prompting President Obama to meet hastily with him and reassure him that he understands the importance of Jerusalem to the Jews. Jeremy Ben-Ami of J-Street responded with his own ad featuring a counter-attack by Yossi Sarid, one of the unrepentant architects of the Oslo process, that dismissed Weisel as misinformed, misled, deceived, and, worst of all, "imbuing our current conflict with messianic hues." This last accusation is particularly significant. Any religious affection for Jerusalem on the part of Jews appears on J-Street's radar as messianic attachment, and since, by J-Street's analysis, compromise on Jerusalem is a sine qua non of achieving peace, such feelings are impediments to reaching a "rational" solution...'
