“J Street has trailblazed the way for us.”
Tel Aviv, August 10 – A group of Israelis dissatisfied with a legislative effort to curtail powers that the Supreme Court arrogated for itself, and worried that the moves will spiral the country into dictatorship, insists that their vow not to show up for annual stints of military training, or not to fly their military aircraft as assigned, thus weakening the Jewish’ State’s defense readiness in a perpetually unstable and threatening region, in fact represents love for that state – an argument they acknowledge they never could have developed on their own, but had to rely on the precedent of an American political organization that claims to be “Pro-Israel” but endorses every anti-Israel candidate, official, policy, and proposal across the US.
The IDF reservists, pilots, officers, and other personnel, along with the political figures and activists encouraging them from the sidelines, gave credit Thursday to the American lobbying organization J Street for the inspiration to frame acts and attitudes manifestly harmful to Israel as in Israel’s interest, actually.
“We wouldn’t have thought of it on our own,” admitted Selfinda Foot, who has called on reservists of all ranks not to show up when called, in protest over the Netanyahu government “trampling on democracy.” “We didn’t know how to go about promoting this movement, but J Street showed the way,” she stated. “Since early in the Obama administration, J Street has played an outsize role in tokenizing ‘American Jewish’ attitudes on Israel, as if their support for every anti-Israel politician, and some outright antisemitic ones – Ilhan Omar comes to mind – is somehow congruent with the organization billing itself as ‘pro-Israel.'”
“They obviously define ‘pro-Israel’ as ‘in favor of policies that dismantle the Jewish State as we know it, since that would be better, and we think that’s a democratic value, even though it goes against the vast majority of Israelis’ positions on the subject,'” she continued. “J Street has trailblazed the way for us. We, too, can now credibly – well, to ourselves, I guess – paint our moves to weaken Israel’s defenses, undermine social cohesion, and compromise military preparedness, as patriotic.”
Some disagreed that J Street deserves sole credit for the rhetorical device. “There was a British guy, wrote a book back in the forties,” observed Arik Bleier, a reserve sergeant. “He developed a whole vocabulary that we’ve put to use, such as ‘Ministry of Truth’ and the like. Our rhetorical choices owe at least as much to him as to J Street.”
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