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Yoffie supports the Gaza operation
Israpundit —
On Gaza, Sense and Centrism
By Eric Yoffie, The Forward
Wars sicken me, even wars that I support. I support Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but watching it on TV — the images of bombed-out buildings, crying women and, inevitably, the bodies of innocent bystanders — is a painful experience.
I suspect that most American Jews feel the same discomfort that I feel. They support the military offensive too, but they are well aware of the risks that it entails, and they expect Israel to be both politically wise and morally sensitive ...
Good for the Jews?
Talking Points Memo —
... One of the most hopeful developments in the American Jewish community over recent years has been the creation of J Street, the new pro-peace, pro-two state solution lobbying organization. In The Forward, Eric Yoffe, President of the Union of Reform Judaism attacked J Street's refusal to get on board with the Gaza attack. Here ...
J Street’s Response to Eric Yoffe
Matthew Yglesias —
... Rabbi Eric Yoffe, President of the Union of Reform Judaism, recently took to the pages of The Forward to attack J Street for expressing skepticism about the Gaza adventure. You can ...
A rift on the Jewish left
Ben Smith's Blog —
... "These words are deeply distressing because they are morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naïve," Yoffie wrote. ...
NSN Daily Update 1/5/09
democracyarsenal.org —
... of the Day – Gaza Edition The Washington Post looks at the sad realities of war from both the Israeli and Palestinian perspective. Roi Ben-Yehuda had an article in Ha’aretz last week about Muslim support for peace. Anshel Pfeffer takes a look at the mixed reaction of the Jewish Diaspora. Aaron Miller argues for a new American approach towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A fascinating exchange between Rabbi Eric Yoffie and J Street. John Bolton proposes a ...
Tearing Up J Street
Weekly Standard Blog —
... predicted that this farce would only last until an open conflict broke out in Israel. Now that Israel is at war, American Jews seem to be rallying to its defense -- even those whose impulses are dovish. Yet J Street continues to rail against Israel and those who would support its action in Gaza. The response came from Eric Yoffie, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, who is described by Ami Eden at JTA as "arguably the Jewish community's most important dove." Yoffie responded in the Forward to a statement that J Street posted ...
J Street Spars with Reform Judaism Leader over Gaza
News —
... or came first. What's needed now is immediate action to stop the violence before it spirals out of control… There needs to be an urgent end to the new hostilities that brings a complete end to military operations, including an end to the rocket fire out of Gaza, and that allows food, fuel and other civilian necessities into Gaza. J Street's criticism was "morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naive," Yoffie wrote last week in an op-ed published in The Jewish Daily Forward , an influential Jewish newspaper. The group "could ...
J Street Blinks
Weekly Standard Blog —
... majority of respondents (53 percent) disagreed with this statement: "With Hamas launching rockets into southern Israel that killed many Israeli civilians and Israel launching air and ground strikes that killed many Palestinian civilians, neither side has a monopoly on who is right and who is wrong." This language -- neither side has a monopoly on who is right and who is wrong -- mirrors precisely the language of a statement put out by the group during the war. That statement spurred a devastating smack-down of the group by Eric Yoffe, one of the most prominent ...
Jews Out To Lunch
Maggie's Farm —
... and our most liberal Reform movement president Eric Yoffe, who says “I am a dove myself,” called its posture on the Gaza operations “morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naïve.” ...
J Street critic to keynote J Street conference
The Moderate Voice —
I was pleasanly surprised to see that Rabbi Eric Yoffie will be one of the keynote speakers at the J Street convention later this month.
Rabbi Yoffie, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, describes himself as a dove who welcomed the founding of J Street as an alternative to AIPAC. Yet when J Street equated the actions of Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Yoffie lashed out, writing,
[J Street's] words are deeply distressing because they are morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naïve. ...
