Are certain people ventriloquists' dummies when it comes to Israel?

I don't know what you are - actually, I know very well - but I express my opinions, whether or not you agree with them. I agree with Israel's right to defend herself, something absurd demonisers like you obviously object to.

Good for you, whoever you are.

J Street lost all credibility when it was revealed that Soros financed most of it and that it had Saudi connections ....surprised that neither you nor "Realistic Dove" (!) knows this.....

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/12/j-streets-saudi-connection.html

So what if Soros funded JStreet. Is he the new Bogeyman? But, hey, if you want to be a ventriloquist's appendage, be my guest...

And as Carlo Strenger points out here, Israel’s problem is the settlements, not J Street.

...continuing the occupation dooms Israel’s long-term future, because it will drive Israel into ever deeper isolation. It will lose its friends in the free world, and will live in everlasting conflict with the Arab world. And this does endanger Israel’s long term survival.

It needs to be made clear that the choice is not between a safe Israel that occupies the territories and an unsafe Israel alongside a Palestinian state. It is between an Israel that takes a limited security risk for long-term peace, and an Israel that threatens its own long-term existence.

It is this kind of straight talk that has been missing in Israel’s discourse. Israel’s left has disappeared because it never squarely addressed the risks involved in peace-making. If J Street commits to clarity of thought and an honest approach, it may create the model for a new Israeli left with a viable message.