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As we approach the High Holidays this year, we find a world in turmoil. At home, the Trump administration continues to push policies and rhetoric rooted in hatred and discrimination, undermining our democracy and sowing fear and divisions. In its approach to the world, our government has largely adopted a bombastic and threatening tone, hardly reassuring us that it can cope with crises and threats across the world.
As a community that values these ideals from our tradition, we must strive to apply them not only when we, as liberal Jews are affected, but in all the areas of Israeli society where discrimination and injustice prevail. We must have the confidence and the courage to join with our friends and allies from all walks of life to work toward a more secure, democratic and equitable future for our Jewish homeland.
World leaders are about to descend on New York for the United Nations General Assembly next week -- and what some of them have to say could have major ramifications for J Street’s work.
But buried in the poll is a far more interesting statistic. The survey asked respondents whether they supported immediately moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Just 16% supported doing so unilaterally, while a whopping 80% either oppose outright it or favor it in the context of a peace agreement.
Abbas at UN: We’ll Give Trump’s Peace Efforts a Chance, UN Bears Obligation to End Occupation, Haaretz
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that Israel was evading its responsibility to end the occupation. “While we call to end the occupation, Israel incites and pretends there’s no Palestinian partner for peace,” Abbas said, addressing the UN General Assembly hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told him that now might be the Palestinians’ “best shot ever” to achieve peace. Abbas said the United Nations bore a legal, political, moral and humanitarian obligation to end the occupation, adding that Israel knew that the occupation bred incitement and violence. “Draining the swamp of Israeli occupation would greatly affect the fight on terror,” he said, adding that ending the occupation would deprive terror groups of a key rallying cry.
Did Trump Just Make Iran More Popular?, New Yorker
Robin Wright observes, “Trump’s tough talk and sophomoric antics may have had the opposite effect of what he intended….Across the board, the world’s other major powers, most of America’s closest allies, and the vast majority of governments at the United Nations this week made clear that they favor the deal. They are siding with Iran this time….European nations and the U.S. have been repeatedly burned by Iran in the past, and have similar serious, ongoing issues: Iran’s missile tests, its support for extremists, its human-rights abuses, its detentions of their citizens, and a growing pattern of Iranian intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts, notably in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Yet, for the first time in almost four decades, the Europeans appear willing to break from Washington.”