DAY 353 COUNTDOWN TO EGYPTIAN DEMOCRACY

WHAT'S IN A SELF-DESCRIPTION:

J Street, the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization has been busy recently urging the Obama Administration not to veto the anti-Israel resolution at the UN and then criticizing it for doing so. Regardless of how one feels about the subject of the resolution, the Israeli "settlements" (many of which are actually neighborhoods contiguous to and on the north and south of Jerusalem), you have to be living in another universe to think that inserting the UN into the Israel-Palestinian issue can somehow be pro-Israel or, for that matter, pro-peace.

While J Street is highlighting settlements, a sure way to ensure that they become and remain an obstacle to negotiations and to peace, AIPAC, the supposed right-wing organization that J Street was created to counter, is busy asking its members to ask their members of Congress to sign onto a letter urging the Administration to encourage any new Egyptian government to honor the 30 year old peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

Makes one wonder who really is pro-Israel, pro-peace.