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Thanks for the ping.

So the New York Times is a Zionist publication, eh? Oh well . . . I suppose if anyone can consider Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross pro-Israel . . .

As someone who used to listen to short wave radio broadcasts back in the Seventies I will never understand why people are so surprised that the same institutions that favored the Communists are anti-Israel. For decades America was a sort of "wrinkle in time" where the Left was pro-Israel and the Right was pro-Arab, and it seems it's still difficult for some people to get out of that way of thinking. My question is how long "pro-Israel liberals" like Martin Peretz, Alan Dershowitz, Tom Lantos, and "Jewish leftist Democrats in the House" will continue to live in the past?

BTW wideawake, Living Tradition has updated with a very good article. Check it out.

Thanks for the link. BTW, you would be pleased to know that last Friday afternoon as I was taking the NYC subway downtown, two Hasids came into the subway car and said: "May we have your attention please? We are not asking for money, we want to share with you the seven laws that God has asked all men to live by . . . "

They proceeded to quickly recite the Noahide laws and then handed out pamphlets about them before they proceeded to the next car.

I know that you are frustrated by the lack of Jewish missionary outreach to Gentiles - I found this little presentation fascinating.

Usually when Hasids are on the subway they simply ask Jewish-looking people if they are Jewish and then try to give them teshuvah-related pamphlets.

I suppose if anyone can consider Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross pro-Israel .

Indyk and Ross are both Jewish.

Ross is the first Chariman of THE JEWISH PEOPLE POLICY PLANNING INSTITUTE (ESTABLISHED BY THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL) LTD.

At the inauguration Ambassador Ross said: "It is necessary for the Jewish people to develop thinking that will help anticipate and respond to future developments. The purpose of the Institute is to develop innovative thinking, assess future problems, and offer possible methods of action. The Institute will make recommendations to various governments including the government of Israel and Jewish organizations." In response to a question, Ross said: My activity on behalf of the Jewish people does not contradict my past or present activities in promoting peace in the Middle East. The will to be a proud Jew does not conflict with my political activities," he said.

THE Washington Institute for Near East Policy (Winep) was established in 1985, and soon became the most influential thinktank with effects on the United States government’s Middle East policy and US mass media reporting about the region. The institute’s founding director, Martin Indyk, was previously research director of the leading pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).

I would consider Ross and Indyk to be pro-Israel.