{"id":528952,"date":"2010-04-15T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82460"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:17:49","slug":"israeli-amb-finally-meets-with-leader-of-progressive-american-jewish-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528952","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Amb. Finally Meets With Leader of Progressive American Jewish Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amb. Michael Oren pointedly snubbed J Street when the pro-Israel\/pro-peace\/progressive American Jewish lobby group offered to let him speak at its first annual conference last fall<\/a>. Now, Oren appears to be mending fences, meeting with J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami. Here’s J Street’s account of their first meeting today:<\/p>\n

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“I greatly appreciated the opportunity to sit down with Ambassador Oren for a frank and fruitful conversation about how we can work together to ensure Israel’s prospects for peace and security.\u00a0 I applaud the Ambassador’s commitment to building a bridge to the pro-Israel, pro-peace community in the months since our national conference,” said Ben-Ami.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Ambassador clearly recognizes the importance of dialogue and communication between the State of Israel and those parts of the American Jewish community that are deeply pro-Israel but at times disagree with the policies of its government.<\/p>\n

“J Street hopes that going forward we are building a relationship based on mutual respect and recognizing that our disagreements are rooted in a deep commitment to Israel’s security and its future as a democracy and the home of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

“I hope this is but the first of many conversations we will have.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If the Jewish community can’t come together during the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps<\/a>, when can it? Oren’s fence-mending move is an indication that Israel needs the help of all its supporters as it seeks to overcome its current difficulties with the Obama administration over the peace process — particularly the aid of those, represented by J Street, who support both Israel and Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amb. Michael Oren pointedly snubbed J Street when the pro-Israel\/pro-peace\/progressive American Jewish lobby group offered to let him speak at its first annual conference last fall. Now, Oren appears to be mending fences, meeting with J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami. Here’s J Street’s account of their first meeting today: “I greatly appreciated the opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}