J Street just bragged about backing Senator Chris Van Hollen’s letter demanding that US-Israel military technology and intelligence-sharing be stripped from the US defense bill. Its demand is that Israel meet its political conditions first to “abide by” Trump’s Gaza peace agreement.
Let that sink in. While Hamas is still in control of parts of Gaza, rearming, and refusing to disarm, and openly breaking Trump’s Gaza peace agreement, J Street pretends to support Israel. Yet J Street’s priority is cutting off US military technology and intelligence that helps Israel save Israeli lives from our jihadi enemies in the Middle East.
Not one word about Hamas. Not one demand that Hamas disarm. All the pressure lands on the Jewish state defending its citizens.
Ask yourself who benefits if Israel loses American technology and intelligence. Not Israeli families. Not American soldiers. Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran do. When an organization’s lobbying lines up perfectly with what Israel’s enemies want, stop calling it a friend.
A friend stands with you under fire. An enemy works to tie your hands while the bullets are flying. J Street walks into the halls of Congress waving the words “pro-Israel” and lobbies to weaken Israel’s defenses in the middle of a war. That isn’t tough love. It’s sabotage dressed up as concern.
No American would accept allies telling the United States it may defend its own citizens only after meeting their list of political demands. J Street demands exactly that of Israel and calls it friendship.
For years J Street has claimed to be the “authentic” voice of American Jews, while doing more to split American Jewry and silence support for Israel than any open opponent could. That’s what makes it so dangerous. It does from inside the community what Israel’s enemies can’t do from outside.
So enough with the “pro-Israel” label. J Street behaves like an enemy of Israel, and it should be treated like one in every synagogue, every federation and every congressional office that gives it a seat at the table.
J Street does not speak for the Jewish people. Its lobbying serves the enemies of the Jewish people. Nothing pains me more than seeing Jews actively help those who want us dead.
This is not the first time. It has happened throughout our history, and the Jews who did it wrote themselves out of the Jewish story.
J Street’s supporters are making that same choice today. They are standing with the side of the jihadis who massacred and raped their own brothers and sisters, instead of with their own people. History will forget them. Israel will keep growing and building, and become the light unto the nations we are destined to be.
Anyone who truly cares about Israel and ending the jihadi threat from Gaza should insist on one clear principle: only Israel can remain responsible for Gaza’s security. That requires removing those committed to jihad and rebuilding permanent Jewish communities throughout Gaza, restoring a Jewish presence that existed for centuries before British authorities expelled Gaza’s Jews in 1929 rather than protect them from threatened jihadi violence and massacre, as they did across the country. The essential difference today is that the Jewish people are once again sovereign in our God-given, indigenous homeland and possess an army capable of defending us. Other than that, it is the same ocean and the same 1,400-year jihadi Muslim enemy.
So…Stand with Israel. Stand with the Jewish people. Share these truths.
And most importantly, strengthen your faith. We will overcome the external and internal evil.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!