Jews are the enemy of the holy 'progressives' Let me see, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Obama are all termed 'progressive', because they place(d) change over 'status quo', regardless of the moral consequences of the change. That change is really an expression of 'Babal mentality', and doesn't work. We been there, tried that. Power is consolidated, the masses are repressed for the greater good, individual will is weakened by a false sense of security, and the quality of their human potential ALWAYS decreases.

J-street believes Israel has a right to exist as long as it does not defend itself from Arab terror and spends every day giving parts of its land to the Arabs till nothing is left for Jews. This makes J-Street as pro-Israel as the PLO.

They want not peace, but the destruction of Israel. Just follow the $$$...

The problem is that peace looks very different when you're sitting in your plush ergonomic armchair in front of a keyboard in suburban America. J Street suffers from a bad case of political incorrectness and myopia. They probably believe their own blathering policies, like their statement that settlements "have drained Israel's economy". Scyooz me? Which of the idiot propagandists at J Street came up with that bonehead statement? Not only is it totally wrong, it sounds like it was written by a Fatah hack. We in Israel know that in the last 40 years our economy has been one of the most successful in the world. We rank in the top percentile of the nations of the earth. So how does J Street conclude that settlements "have drained Israel's economy"??? What a bunch of self-serving, anti-Israel, Palestinian butt-licking toadies!

J Street isn't on Israel's side and receives funding from anti-Israel groups anyway. Let them meet with their real allies. We should boycott them.

J-street can meet Rahm Emanuel, Yariv Oppenheimer and Zippy Livni as much as they want. Why should they waste their time with Oren?

JStreet is a bunch of assimilated American Jews who are following the steps of their grand fathers in Germany, they feel that they are better than rough uneducated Israelis who dare to fight for keeping alive, just the same as "illuminated" German Jews did! I beg HaShem that they don't end the same way!!! We in Israel won't! We will stand still and fight anyone who tries to destroy us!

no one should attend a j street event , these guys give aid and comfort to those that want to hurt israel .. they give Israel haters the ammo to go after Israel in public by allowing the opposition to say, even jews oppose Israeli actions .. Ben ami is a traitor to the faith and to the Zionist dream .. he is a boot licker for obama

I agree with all the talkbackers here who tell it like it is. Stay away from J-Street. They are traitors to the Jewish People.

Great! Absolutely agree with every word. "We will stand still and fight anyone who tries to destroy us! " And we have quite a few enemies from within, like JEWISH students calling not to enlist in IDF, etc..

Both J Street and Mr. Ben Ami are, to remember the great line of Clint Eastwood, "legends in their own mind".It is as if the denizens of the left are born without the synapses that allow us to see reality. The Middle East conflict's continuity and worsening over the past 62 years has everything to do with Arab hostility, intransigence and enormous quantities of failed bravado and bombast, Their position is "all or nothing" and their attainment in these six decades is exactly nothing. The J-Street solution is to advise the Jews who are on the front lines in Israel (not the ones living in the DC suburbs, on the lake in Cleveland or in Manhattan penthouses), to give the Arabs everything they ask and then they will love you. Can't use the word, but that was, is and remains, "bull----". Every Israeli concession for 62 years is met not with gratitude or respect or mutuality, but with further demands and more violent provocations resulting in harsh retaliations. So, while J-STreet fiddles, Israel will. this week, get a few more burns at the UNSC and UNHRC because of yet another Arab/Islaminst/OAU/socialist countries drive to embarrass and vilify her. Shame on you Mr.B en Ami. Kol haKavod, Mr. Oren for not walking into the trap.

Ben Ami is not from MY BEN AMI THEY ARE FROM THE BEN ARAB WHY WOULD I MEET THEM J ARABS