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http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archiv...mi/index.shtml

From news article:
From the right. An anti-J Street (that would describe most of the actually "pro-Israel" groups as a matter of fact)... Politico reports: Group to oppose Obama Mideast policy
Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, the first shot in what they say will be a confrontational campaign against the Obama administration's Mideast policy and the Democrats who support it.
The Emergency Committee for Israel's leadership unites two major strands of support for the Jewish state: The hawkish, neoconservative wing of the Republican Party, many of whom are Jewish, and conservative Evangelical Christians who have become increasingly outspoken in their support for Israel. The new group's board includes Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol and Gary Bauer, the former Republican presidential candidate who leads the group American Values, as well as Rachel Abrams, a conservative writer and activist.
"We're the pro-Israel wing of the pro-Israel community," said Kristol...

Indeed. They are a 501c(4), so no funding disclosure is required. There is a concern:
...One official at an American Jewish organization welcomed the group to the degree that it would make criticism of Democrats "mainstream," but also expressed concern that a group with such Republican origins would contribute to a deepening partisan cast to the debate over Israel, with Republicans lining up behind the Israeli government while some Democrats align themselves with Netanyahu's American critics.
Bauer dismissed that notion.
"I encourage our Democratic friends to have a competition with us on who can be more pro-Israel, because I think it's in the interests of the United States and not a political party," he said. "I'm really hoping that people like Sen. [Chuck] Schumer and others will aggressively speak out for Israel at a time like this."...

It's a reasonable concern. It's troubling that support for Israel is becoming increasingly a partisan issue. It's dangerous, but not being helped by groups like J Street, whoever decided that Sarah Palin was more dangerous at the UN than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (remember?), and the fact that the administration is putting unapologetic Zionists on the left in a very difficult position -- a choice between The One and Israel.
Yet that can't and shouldn't stop others from speaking their minds from their perspectives. Left Israel supporters have their work cut out for them.
Jennifer Rubin comments at Contentions: It Is Certainly an Emergency
...To say that the ECI fills a niche would be a gross understatement. There is a gaping hole in the Jewish community's response to the Obama administration and in its defense of Israel. In the past, these groups' close relationship with incumbent administrations has served them well. But as I have written for nearly a year, that tactic is not suited to the current challenges and has proven counterproductive in the Obama era. The need is great to expose, confront, and challenge the administration when it, for example, eggs on an international flotilla investigation or excepts Russia and China from sanctions on Iran or mindlessly pursues engagement with Syria...

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This is a bad idea, imo. Everything connected to the neoconservatives and Christian right is immediately tarnished among many Americans, and Israeli officials won't be able to meet with or support an organisation which is openly hostile towards the incumbent President. These people would have done Israel a bigger favour if they had joined and supported AIPAC.

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This group is more of an election program to go after Dems like Sestak.

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And surely the left is outraged because it makes public the anger which was until now, private.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/bl...p/rubin/327731

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