Posted on 01/13/2007 7:30:23 PM PST by shrinkermd
...The Anti-Defamation League, which has an annual budget of more than $50 million, offers anti-bias education and diversity training through its World of Difference Institute; plays a major advocacy role in keeping church and state separate; monitors a vast array of extremist activity...But the league is, in the end, mostly Abe. Foxman is a domineering character who over the years, according to critics, has driven out potential rivals and successors...
....How, then, to explain so one-sided a policy? The unmatched power, they argue, of the Israel lobby. Mearsheimer and Walt, distinguished figures who teach at the University of Chicago and at Harvard, respectively, note that the Israel lobby is not a cabal but simply a very effective pressure group whose goal is to influence legislators and to prevent critical comments from getting a fair hearing in the political arena. Like any other lobby, this one (the authors are speaking... specifically here of Aipac) succeeds at the legislative level due to its ability to reward legislators and Congressional candidates who support its agenda and to punish those who challenge it. The lobby dominates media and has established a commanding presence in policy institutes, thus ensuring that, with few exceptions mostly on campus only one side of the debate can be heard....
....That would be where Abe Foxman comes in. Foxman is an anachronism. The demographic of which he is a member Holocaust survivor is rapidly disappearing.
...Jews are now the most widely admired religious group in America, as well as the most successful, and lamented that Jewish leaders Foxman specifically... Lehrer says that when he raised his view that the A.D.L. had to learn to speak to this new, confident but less affiliated generation of Jews, Foxman dismissed it out of hand
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"...A new neighborhood in the Jordan Valley community of Maskiot, approved by the Defense Ministry for families expelled from Gush Katif, may be headed for the chopping block before it is even built.
...Defense Minister Amir Peretz is reconsidering his previous decision to add homes in the small Jewish village after the United States and the European Union have issued calls to halt the project.
"...Initial development plans include construction of 30 house to be constructed beyond the handful of buildings that already exist. The site was established in 1981 as an IDF base with the specific intention of becoming a town for civilians. Source: HERE
Maskiot was the former community, which was taken as a base and then returned to civilian hands.
Probably, Al Sharpton
Rigth, 10 years ago he had called Pat Robinson - anti-Semite
I can’t stand Foxman. It is time for him to step down. His “organization” is into gay rights, abortion rights, the general plank of the Democratic party. They do nothing to protect and defend their fellow Jews.
and let’s not forget Jimmah Carter and the apostate Robert Novak in the anti-Jewish hate category.
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