According to reports, George Soros is now trying to start (i.e., dump buckets of money into) a "dovish pro-Israel" [sic] alternative to (i.e., competitor with/opponent of) AIPAC. Excerpts from the JPost story on this development truly sound like something out of Bizarro world:
The meeting focused on how best to press Congress and the Bush administration to back greater US engagement toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how to better represent American Jews who don't buy into AIPAC's often hawkish policies.
That would be the same hawkish AIPAC that in 2005 enthusiastically backed the explusion of 10,000 Jews from their homes and the surrender of their communities and greenhouses to the terrorist-led Arab population of Gaza, dedicated to eradicating Israel from the map.
If it comes to fruition, it would be Soros' first major venture into Israel advocacy. Soros drew fire from some Jews in 2003 when at a conference on funding for Israel he suggested that Israel bore some responsibility for the outbreak of anti-Semitism in Europe because of its stiff response to Palestinian terrorism during the intifada.
Yeah, 'cause that last effort probably didn't quite rise to the level of "Israel advocacy." If at first you don't succeed...
There also are differences about the degree to which the new structure should confront AIPAC.
I'll bet. Hey, AIPAC says it's not concerned about it. Me neither.
