{"id":451,"date":"2014-08-30T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-08-31T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:37:49","slug":"why-i-support-j-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Why I support J-Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D451&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><strong>J Street is a home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans<\/strong>\u00a0who support\u00a0\u00a0vigorous U.S. leadership to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to broaden debate around Israel and the Middle East in national politics and the American Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>As a Christian who is pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, and pro-peace, I believe a crucial role needs to be played by US citizens, Jewish, Christians, and others, who can use their influence to encourage Israel, and the leadership of the Palestinian community to take the risks necessary for peace.\u00a0 That&#8217;s only one of the reasons I just joined J-Street and sent a donation.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the Israelis and Palestinians were about to re-start peace talks, Israel announced it was building 1600 new housing units in a disputed neighborhood of \u00a0East Jerusalem.\u00a0 This is both provocative and unacceptable.\u00a0 If US dollars are to continue to flow towards Israel, the political leadership in Israel needs to know that such moves are an outrage to many of us whose tax dollars are meant to\u00a0support Israeli security, not the expansion of occupation.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstreet.org\/blog\/\"> I invite readers of this blog to learn more about J-Street and its courageous work. <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D451&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Street is a home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans\u00a0who support\u00a0\u00a0vigorous U.S. leadership to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to broaden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,70,73,105,132,59],"tags":[104,427,106],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-communities","category-hot-topics","category-judaism","category-middle-east","category-peace-and-war","category-politics","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-peace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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