Liberal Mideast policy group J Street on Tuesday hit back at the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who suggested earlier that its approach to Middle East peace was “dangerous” and “blasphemous.”
“It’s not blasphemous to suggest that the settlement movement and its allies in the Netanyahu and Trump governments are not committed to peace,” J Street founder and director Jeremy Ben-Ami tells The Times of Israel.
He says that Netanyahu, Trump, and their political allies “have spent years helping to expand and entrench the occupation — undermining the two-state solution and endangering Israel’s future.”
In remarks to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington earlier on Tuesday, Friedman, in an apparent jab at J Street and other left-wing groups, said it was “dangerous” to say that Israel is not committed to Middle East peace.
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