It's reported that the American Jewish lobbying group J Street will be launching a new media campaign later this month "aimed at encouraging the American administration to take greater initiative in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process." J Street's vice-president of communications, Isaac Luria, complains that "There are people trying to turn support for Israel into a political football, people like [Rush] Limbaugh, Sarah Palin or [Republican Congressman] Eric Cantor. This is in part a fight against the tea-partyization of the pro-Israel position."In response to this alleged politicization, Luria says that "support for Israel is broad and deep in America. There is a mainstream that supports both Israel and peace"-clearly implying that people like Limbaugh, Palin, and Cantor support Israel but not peace; that is, their support for Israel is somehow tied to wanting it to go to war or at best being indifferent about it. J Street's campaign is supposed to...(Read Full Post)