The White House's Errand Boy? Or J Street Walker?

As if on cue, J Street used the Emanuel dictum to rally its troops yesterday, directing them to back-the-bash-Israel campaign being conducted by the Administration.

We presented Emanuel's dictum here yesterday. It states: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste — and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before.”

And here's an abstract from the J Street letter: The Obama Administration can turn this crisis into an opportunity to tackle a core issue at the heart of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians - the need to establish a border between Israel and the future Palestinian state.... We cannot let any single provocative Israeli announcement of construction in East Jerusalem, no matter how infuriating, delay progress towards a two-state solution. Bold American leadership is needed now to turn this crisis into a real opportunity to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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