J Street will lead a campaign for the Iran deal - and is being trashed by those to the right

[karynnj]

J Street has been a stronger supporter of the administration both in their attempt to broker a two state peace plan and the negotiations to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.

One article I read, shows how many mainstream pro Likud sources are continuing to use those policy issues to push a bogus claim that doing so makes them not "pro Israel". One thing mentioned was a tweet from Jeffery Goldberg that is extremely troubling to me.

Well-known Jewish journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who has gained a large following from his series of exclusive interviews with President Barack Obama on Israel-related issues, tweeted on Tuesday, “If Israel’s elected leader, and the head of the opposition, oppose the Iran deal, can J Street support it and still call itself pro-Israel?” Goldberg’s comments refer to both J Street’s self-identification as the “political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans” and the consensus unfavorable view on the Iran deal among Israeli politicians. In a rare display of cooperation, Israeli Opposition Leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is willing to work with Netanyahu’s governing coalition to thwart the nuclear agreement.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/07/16/j-street-promoting-iran-deal-through-multimillion-dollar-national-campaign-video/#comment-4467916

I was disturbed enough with the idea that disagreeing with most mainstream politicians of a country means you don't support it that I commented - even knowing many sites control the comments actually allowed to post very tightly. I suspect the vast majority of us were precisely in that position in 2003 with regards to our own country. At any rate, this is what I wrote and what I think.

In response to Jeffery Goldberg’s tweet, I suggest he should consider whether all of us against the Iraq War were anti-American after George Bush, and many leading Democrats including Bill Clinton favored war.

I also note that AIPAC itself did not support some of the positions on peace undertaken by former leftish Israeli governments.

If as Jews, we have a commitment to Israel, shouldn’t we have the responsibility to dissent when we think that they are wrong? The majority in America was wrong when they supported Bush ordering troops into Iraq. More leaders, who had given Bush support when he said he would use war only as a last resort, should have spoken out when he started to rush to war in early 2003.

Here, we have not a move to war, but a major international agreement to take actions that move us away from the possibility of war. We should commend the negotiators and back them — not the deceitful, mean spirited, paranoid Netanyahu.

Goldberg, by the way, is also the reporter who Clinton spoke to after her book came out that went into her disagreement with Obama on Syria - where she argued that we should have been more hawkish.