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8.21.2014

***** vid. Rabbi: Israel and its actions EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN by Torah


***** vid. SAID TO ME, AN ARAB, "PEACE" MEANS 'DIE QUIETLY.'

Listen to a stunning speech by Palestinian rights activist Rania Masri.
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8.20.2014

nd. Moments ago, as I was working on my computer, here in front of the White House, Pr. Carter Blaring from my speakers, the Posters I have Blaring Holocaust NOW, in the sweltering heat and sun... some large, young, male Zionis surrounded me, IDF from the look and sound of them. Hands were in my face, inches from me. Hate spitting from their lips. I don't pay attention to violent threats or insanity and inhumanity... so I kept working. It is not my business what others do, including to me. That's the Creator's business. Within 3 or 4 seconds I literally forgot that they were there. What brought their presence back to my attention was the appearance of two, large, looming male figures in black pants and white shirts... Secret Service agents. I again returned, 100%, my attention to my computer work. But I was aware that the Secret Service created space between me and the rabid, hate filled, enraged at what I was doing Zionis... and after a while, they spent themselves, realizing that they were invisible to me... and they disappeared. Will they come back? Will, eventually, I be disappeared on my late at night, 17 block walks home? Not my business. Not my concern. Freeing Palestine is my concern. (OH YES, I am PROFOUNDLY AWARE of how infinitely SAFE I am doing the work I do here. Had I been in Palestine I'd have been in prison, INDEFINITELY, AT BEST, in a matter of moments.

Moments ago, as I was working on my computer, here in front of the White House, Pr. Carter Blaring from my speakers, the Posters I have Blaring Holocaust NOW, in the sweltering heat and sun... some large, young, male Zionis surrounded me, IDF from the look and sound of them. Hands were in my face, inches from me. Hate spitting from their lips. I don't pay attention to violent threats or insanity and inhumanity... so I kept working. It is not my business what others do, including to me. That's the Creator's business. Within 3 or 4 seconds I literally forgot that they were there. What brought their presence back to my attention was the appearance of two, large, looming male figures in black pants and white shirts... Secret Service agents. I again returned, 100%, my attention to my computer work. But I was aware that the Secret Service created space between me and the rabid, hate filled, enraged at what I was doing Zionis... and after a while, they spent themselves, realizing that they were invisible to me... and they disappeared. Will they come back? Will, eventually, I be disappeared on my late at night, 17 block walks home? Not my business. Not my concern. Freeing Palestine is my concern. (OH YES, I am PROFOUNDLY AWARE of how infinitely SAFE I am doing the work I do here. Had I been in Palestine I'd have been in prison, INDEFINITELY, AT BEST, in a matter of moments.

8.19.2014

nd. I am usually, anymore, VERY HARSH in my actions and words. I am usually VERY HARSH, because the reality I make it my central business to live within, the Israeli Extermination of Palestine now, is EXTREMELY HARSH. I am NEVER harsh, nor anything else, FOR EFFECT. I always endeavor to Learn, Know, and Embody the Truth and to Be accordingly... and that means HARSH. One might think I observe that this USUALLY BEING HARSH destroys many relationships I would otherwise want and need to exist. THIS HAS NEVER YET ONCE BEEN THE CASE. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN THE CASE. Has it cost me relationships? MANY. It has NEVER cost me a relationship that my neediest brothers and sisters need me to have, and it has ALWAYS separated me from relationships that my neediest brothers and sisters couldn't afford for me any my puny energies and abilities to be diverted from their desperate requirements by.

I am usually, anymore, VERY HARSH in my actions and words.  I am usually VERY HARSH, because the reality I make it my central business to live within, the Israeli Extermination of Palestine now, is EXTREMELY HARSH.  I am NEVER harsh, nor anything else, FOR EFFECT.  I always endeavor to Learn, Know, and Embody the Truth and to Be accordingly... and that means HARSH.  One might think I observe that this USUALLY BEING HARSH destroys many relationships I would otherwise want and need to exist.  THIS HAS NEVER YET ONCE BEEN THE CASE.  THIS HAS NEVER BEEN THE CASE.  Has it cost me relationships?  MANY.  It has NEVER cost me a relationship that my neediest brothers and sisters need me to have, and it has ALWAYS separated me from relationships that my neediest brothers and sisters couldn't afford for me any my puny energies and abilities to be diverted from their desperate requirements by.

8.16.2014

nd. ***** WAKE THE F*CK UP. Shame on me, but I just did not 'see' till now that Israel is an EXPLICITLY, PROUDLY... RACIST STATE. NO WONDER THE US ELITES ON BOTH SIDE OF THE ISLE LOVE IT. If you are a minority in this country, you better be F*CKING SCARED, ALERT, AND FIGHT THE GATEWAY OF EVIL THAT ISRAEL REPRESENTS. FERGUSON IS A US TEST CASE.... US POLICY IS TO SUPPORT, TO FUND, TO WEAPONIZE, TO SANCTION, BLESS AND LEGITIMIZE... ISRAEL'S ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ISRAEL... FOR STRICTLY RACIST PURPOSES. IN LEGITIMIZING IT HERE... IT LEGITIMIZES IT FOR THE WHITE ELITES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE IN AMERICA TO DO THE SAME. WAKE THE F*CK UP. OH, AND SISTERS, MY WHITE SISTERS... YES, YOU ARE ON THE TARGET LIST. YOU CAN KISS ANY NEWLY WON RIGHTS GOODBY IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS, IN ISRAHELL, NOW. (I'm reading the consummately scholarly 2011, "The Forgotten Palestinians," by Ilan Pappe, Jewish Scholar recently run out of Israel for his writings.)

***** WAKE THE F*CK UP. Shame on me, but I just did not 'see' till now that Israel is an EXPLICITLY, PROUDLY... RACIST STATE. NO WONDER THE US ELITES ON BOTH SIDE OF THE ISLE LOVE IT. If you are a minority in this country, you better be F*CKING SCARED, ALERT, AND FIGHT THE GATEWAY OF EVIL THAT ISRAEL REPRESENTS. FERGUSON IS A US TEST CASE.... US POLICY IS TO SUPPORT, TO FUND, TO WEAPONIZE, TO SANCTION, BLESS AND LEGITIMIZE... ISRAEL'S ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ISRAEL... FOR STRICTLY RACIST PURPOSES. IN LEGITIMIZING IT HERE... IT LEGITIMIZES IT FOR THE WHITE ELITES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE IN AMERICA TO DO THE SAME. WAKE THE F*CK UP. OH, AND SISTERS, MY WHITE SISTERS... YES, YOU ARE ON THE TARGET LIST. YOU CAN KISS ANY NEWLY WON RIGHTS GOODBY IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS, IN ISRAHELL, NOW. (I'm reading the consummately scholarly 2011, "The Forgotten Palestinians," by Ilan Pappe, Jewish Scholar recently run out of Israel for his writings.)

2 page. EXCELLENT, FACTUAL, OBJECTIVE, TRUTHFUL, ACCURATE SUMMARY OF THE EXTERMINATION OF PALESTINIANS AND THEFT OF THEIR LAND. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/synopsis.pdf www.ifamericansknew.org ifamericansknew.org

2 page. EXCELLENT, FACTUAL, OBJECTIVE, TRUTHFUL, ACCURATE SUMMARY OF THE EXTERMINATION OF PALESTINIANS AND THEFT OF THEIR LAND. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/synopsis.pdf
ifamericansknew.org

8.14.2014

nd. To an acquaintance re Bernie Sanders: "Genocide, backing mass murder, even turning the other way... that is a red line that can't be crossed, and still be a decent human being... and Bernie crossed it, with passion. Few on Capitol Hill had my respect... he did, so did Liz Warren... John Lewis... no more. They are all sub human scum... my sisters and brothers all... sub human scum. You don't get to fund mass murder of defenseless infants, children, mothers, fathers... to save your cushy job... and still be a human being. They crossed the line."

To an acquaintance re Bernie Sanders:  "Genocide, backing mass murder, even turning the other way... that is a red line that can't be crossed, and still be a decent human being... and Bernie crossed it, with passion. Few on Capitol Hill had my respect... he did, so did Liz Warren... John Lewis... no more. They are all sub human scum... my sisters and brothers all... sub human scum. You don't get to fund mass murder of defenseless infants, children, mothers, fathers... to save your cushy job... and still be a human being. They crossed the line."

nd. Every day, every hour, I feel the distance growing between me and the world I knew, and nearly all the people I've known all my years... and the distance shrinking between me and my Family in Palestine, and the world's other US Made Hell-Holes.

Every day, every hour, I feel the distance growing between me and the world I knew, and nearly all the people I've known all my years... and the distance shrinking between me and my Family in Palestine, and the world's other US Made Hell-Holes.

8.13.2014

***** FROM THE EDITORS OF "THE NATION" MAGAZINE: Israel Must Stop Its Campaign of Terror. As world leaders fail to end the bloodletting in Gaza, it is up to civil society to demand justice for Palestinians.

FROM THE EDITORS OF "THE NATION" MAGAZINE: Israel Must Stop Its Campaign of Terror. As world leaders fail to end the bloodletting in Gaza, it is up to civil society to demand justice for Palestinians.
As world leaders fail to end the bloodletting in Gaza, it is up to civil society to demand justice for Palestinians.
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nd. Thru tears: Robin, I'm so deeply sorry you never found your way out of the pain, to the joy. Oh God. Why? I've Loved you sooooo deeply from the first seconds I heard you, so many decades ago. This is soooooooooo wrong. This is soooooooooooo unjust. So inexpressibly tragic. OH GOD, YOU DESERVED TO BE SO JOYFUL. Agony.

Thru tears: Robin, I'm so deeply sorry you never found your way out of the pain, to the joy. Oh God. Why? I've Loved you sooooo deeply from the first seconds I heard you, so many decades ago. This is soooooooooo wrong. This is soooooooooooo unjust. So inexpressibly tragic. OH GOD, YOU DESERVED TO BE SO JOYFUL. Agony.

8.12.2014

nd. I must at some point study the research on this, but my strong hunch is that wealth celebrity fame are major contributors to depression. Every single penny that we have beyond our basic needs is a measure of our seperation from our human family, our reason for being, especially our neediest human kin. I have felt the deepest regard, love, awe for Robin throughout my life, this miracle of a man. I wish with all of my heart that he had discovered that radical service of the least of these was his cure, the joy that surpasses all suffering .

I must at some point study the research on this, but my strong hunch is that wealth celebrity fame are major contributors to depression. Every single penny that we have beyond our basic needs is a measure of our separation from our human family, our reason for being, especially our neediest human kin. I have felt the deepest regard, love, awe for Robin throughout my life, this miracle of a man. I wish with all of my heart that he had discovered that radical service of the least of these was his cure, the joy that surpasses all suffering .

nd. I've really fallen out of love with the human species. I find zero desire that it continues. Now, individual humans who are suffering will have the devotion of every waking second of my life as long as I have breath. I think it is cruel, and wrong, to bring more humans into such a suffering, broken, sick... species and world. Among other things, we have a duty to stop destroying, stop polluting the universe, and it is clear that we are incapable of doing so as long as we exist.

I've really fallen out of love with the human species. I find zero desire that it continues.  Now, individual humans who are suffering will have the devotion of every waking second of my life as long as I have breath.  I think it is cruel, and wrong, to bring more humans into such a suffering, broken, sick... species and world. Among other things, we have a duty to stop destroying, stop polluting the universe, and it is clear that we are incapable of doing so as long as we exist.

8.08.2014

nd. Friends, in my life devoted to activism, study and practice, intensely the last 10 years, the only group I can think of that I am quite certain is worthy of the sacred term activism, is Jewish Voice for Peace. My point is not that there are not others. My point is that if there is a worthy respectable group it is Jewish Voice for Peace. With the minimum donation, sadly, I joined them this week. I suggest you do the same and work with them with your financial and physical resources.

Friends, in my life devoted to activism, study and practice, intensely the last 10 years, the only group I can think of that I am quite certain is worthy of the sacred term activism, is Jewish Voice for Peace. My point is not that there are not others. My point is that if there is a worthy respectable group it is Jewish Voice for Peace. With the minimum donation, sadly, I joined them this week. I suggest you do the same and work with them with your financial and physical resources.

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nd. Whoever remains neutral in the face of genocide fights alongside as an ally to the savages.

Whoever remains neutral in the face of genocide fights alongside as an ally to the savages.

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nd. If I do my job here fighting the Zionis, if I do it well, which is a possibility, they may well kill me. No one would much care, and it would be a great kindness to me. I have hated this world, what we have made of it, for at least a year now. I am always ready to go home. But given the choice I will take every second that I am given fight for the freedom of our family in Palestine.

If I do my job here fighting the Zionis, if I do it well, which is a possibility, they may well kill me. No one would much care, and it would be a great kindness to me. I have hated this world, what we have made of it, for at least a year now. I am always ready to go home. But given the choice I will take every second that I am given fight for the freedom of our family in Palestine.

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8.06.2014

Jimmy Carter & Mary Robinson. article. Gaza blockade must end The UN should mandate an end to the siege of Gaza as a first step towards a settlement

"The UN Security Council should vote a resolution recognising the inhumane conditions in Gaza and mandate an end to the siege."
- Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson
Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson: The UN should mandate an end to the...
theguardian.com|By Mary Robinson

8.05.2014

TO THE 7 THAT WERE PLANNING TO FUND THE POSTERS: I’ve been near catatonic these last 20 hours or so, literally confined to bed but for moments here or there..... (detail)



TO THE 7 THAT WERE PLANNING TO FUND THE POSTERS:  I’ve been near catatonic these last 20 hours or so, literally confined to bed but for moments here or there.  I feel you are due this update so as to re-determine if you wish to contribute to the posters as we previously discussed.   I’m going to proceed, using what little funds I’ve hoarded over the months… but based on the following you may and should fully re-consider whether you wish to stand by your pledges of support – and you will have zero second-guessing from me if you pull back.  If you do not pull back, then if and when you send the funding you discussed it will help my work be whole, replenish my funds, for this wave of my efforts, and those to come.  Please let me know what to expect.
I wish I had never been born, to be in a world a country, a time, so evil. I wish I had never been born.  That’s how I feel, deeply.
For almost 15 years I’ve devoted my life to fighting evil – the resource-starved and loving-starved children of abandoned Chester PA, for our family in Darfur being exterminated by their government, for our family in Palestine being destroyed by the Zionis, for our own children and grandchildren having their future destroyed by our non-terminating the use of fossil fuels. In all of these cases I was fighting acts of omission… we, the US, we US Citizens were not stepping up to stop unspeakable evils.
But now for the first time in my life I am “seeing” (I may have missed many others), but I am “SEEING” my country, my government, my fellow tax payers COMMIT GENOCIDE, COMMIT THE EXTERMINATION OF AN ENTIRE PEOPLES  - OUR PALESTINIAN FAMILY.  Because we hate them?  In some cases yes – we have been very thoroughly, carefully, brilliantly taught to fear and hate Muslims.  But in the case of our congress and media, it is GREED AND FEAR that have 100% of Senators and Congresspeople and media BACKING Israel in their Genocide, Holocaust, Ethnic Cleansing, Extermination.  They are literally terrified to not spread the horrific Zioni propaganda lies… and handsomely rewarded for doing so.
We US citizens are so callous we are content to slurp down the Zioni-authored “News” propaganda year after year, decade after decade, and afraid to be the subject of ‘controversy’ so we don’t to the main-stream review of the scholarship and easily available facts – to “see” the unequalled evil of what we are committing through our ignorance.
I never comprehended that this could happen – the US be the PERPETRATOR of the Ultimate Evil – not with our full knowledge, as is the case.  Some of you will rightly laugh, or be angry, at my huge naiveté, ignorance, stupidity, willful  blindness….
I sensed, but only now see, that with the exception of you seven, the armies of FaceBook “activists” are and will talk our  Palestinians literally to DEATH… and will never, never, never pay any personal price to save them.  Further, among those that have been the most dear in my life, most or all will neither ‘talk’ nor ‘support’ my meager efforts (nor anyone else’s) to help our Palestinian family.  I’m not surprised, but now I see it.  How very dark.
I don’t know who I am, what to do, how to live.  I can’t predict me, right now.  I could, yesterday, and the day before… before this hit me so clearly and squarely.  But I’m in a foreign land,on  a foreign planet, in a foreign country… one that commits genocide not just by omission, but by EXPLICIT COMMISSION. 
I’ve also spent many hours agonizing over the execution of this plan with the Posters, and the following insights and changes have occurred to the plan:
1.        Little if any time will be spent in front of the Holocaust Museum.  The intent of the poster effort is NOT to change the mind of the Zionis and their supporters, but to change the hearts and minds of one or two of those uncertain, or on the sidelines.  For what they are, I think the posters can do that IF “SEEN.”  I realize now that the logistics are such that to have the posters in front of the Holocuast Museum – the Posters would not be “seen,” the content would not be “seen,” all that would be “seen” is that someone was demonstrating in front of the memorial.
2.       I DO expect (see #3) to be some combination of A. 3 blocks from the Holocaust Memorial near the Washington Monument; B. Lafayette Park north side of the White House; C. Other high traffic tourist sites that on windier days may shield the signs from the wind, Park Police permitting.
3.       There are three huge logistical factors I’d not considered fully, and will only learn by doing.  The Park Police, the wind, and bleaching of the posters by the sun.  I’ve done man-years worth of work with posters… but never with very light foam core picture posters as is needed now – I don’t have a rolling cart to transport heavy stuff and support vinyl posters, nor heavier PVC ones – so the 14 blocks each way to the places I described – I need light stuff… but that makes the wind a huge factor, how big and manageable, I’ll not know till I try.  As to the Park Police – they may give me zero trouble or make things impossible at all but the north side of the White House where I know the rules and at least in the blocked off street there – I can’t be stopped or interfered with – but are subject to unblocked wind, and a 3rd factor – sun bleaching of the posters and me – which I need to try and minimize – and there is little or no shade in the blocked off  White House street.
4.       Not only will I be precluded from being on post with the signs on rainy days as I’d alerted you, but certainly heavy, and maybe even light wind days.  I won’t know till I work things out through trial and error.
5.       I DO know that I cannot see another issue for me besides fighting this US EXCEUTED GENOICIDE… until it, or my life force, stop.  I now have ZERO interest in stopping ecocide, global warming, and am prevented by conscience from attempting so unless and until we prove to be a species that will not allow this televised Satanic Genocide to continue.  We are far too dangerous to the universe, otherwise, and I have no right to do anything that might help prevent or slow, the extinction of such a species.  Truly.  In my heart.  Have you seen the movie Noah?
Well, that’s enough for you to decide whether to continue with your funding, or not.  I hope to find my catatonic state subsiding, lifting, and to be on post with the posters by the weekend, if not sooner, using up what little reserves of funds I had.  If you continue with your pledge, that will be a Godsend, but my Loving of you will be unaffected either way.  Oh, and I’ll also have a $27 PA speaker broadcasting tight clips of Pr. Carter reading Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.  The book starts slow (I just finished listening to it last week) but I now understand why the Zionis assassinated Pr. Carter on this issue.  If you listen closely (MUST READ) you can hear him, scream, seethe, with rage, outrage, HORROR at what Israel is doing to the Palestinians with the complicity of the US. 
Pr. Carter’s voice is so recognizable, and in a few short clips that I’ll share with you later, he lays the entire Zioni Genocide out, right at the feet of the Zioni leaders – explicitly, and exonerates the Palestinians, Hamas, PLO….  In my words, not his, ‘a girl being raped by a gang… there are no moral limits on how she fights back… whatever she does to fight back is moral… until they stop.”  This gang rape has been going on for 67 years according to all the historical scholarship in virtually every university on earth, INCLUDING ISRAEL.
Please let me know you r intentions, so I know what to expect, what to look for, or not look for.

8.04.2014

***** article. "The most common sentence I heard when people began to talk about cease-fire: Everybody says it's better for all of us to die and not go back to the situation we used to have before this war. We don't want that again. We have no dignity, no pride; we are just soft targets, and we are very cheap. Either this situation really improves or it is better to just die. I am talking about intellectuals, academics, ordinary people: Everybody is saying that."

"The most common sentence I heard when people began to talk about cease-fire: Everybody says it's better for all of us to die and not go back to the situation we used to have before this war. We don't want that again. We have no dignity, no pride; we are just soft targets, and we are very cheap. Either this situation really improves or it is better to just die. I am talking about intellectuals, academics, ordinary people: Everybody is saying that."

Amid all the horrors unfolding in the latest Israeli offensive in Gaza, Israel's goal is simple: quiet-for-quiet, a return to the norm.
www.truth-out.org|By Noam Chomsky

8.01.2014

nd. Within a week or so I expect to create a page at one of the fundrasing sites. With my newly regained physical strength (plus daily immodium that, so far anyway, breaks my cancer-after-effects chains to the toilet) I can justify giving folks the opportunity to contribute to my work. I need $50 a month for my mobile wifi (I don't afford a phone) so I can be on in the streets demonstrating AND fighting online, a change of underwear, $50 to replace the 2 shirts that are my uniform that get destroyed by being in the sun all day, $0 food (dumpsters suffice), $0 entertainment (I have zero time or interest), $8 per week for coffee & tip (my rent for a table at a cafe when weather is bad or I need to do intensive internet work undisturbed), a $400/yr equipment fund (working on the street as I do, and in the shelter, as careful as I am I need to replace computer or power equipment from time to time due to wear, tear, vandalism or theft). When I create the page on a fundrasing page, with the above spelled out in slightly more detail I'll share it.

Within a week or so I expect to create a page at one of the fundrasing sites.  With my newly regained physical strength (plus daily immodium that, so far anyway, breaks my cancer-after-effects chains to the toilet) I  can justify giving folks the opportunity to contribute to my work.  I need $50 a month for my mobile wifi (I don't afford a phone) so I can be on in the streets demonstrating AND fighting online, a change of underwear, $50 to replace the 2 shirts that are my uniform that get destroyed by being in the sun all day, $0 food (dumpsters suffice), $0 entertainment (I have zero time or interest), $8 per week for coffee & tip (my rent for a table at a cafe when weather is bad or I need to do intensive internet work undisturbed), a $400/yr equipment fund (working on the street as I do, and in the shelter, as careful as I am I need to replace computer or power equipment from time to time due to wear, tear, vandalism or theft).  When I create the page on a fundrasing page, with the above spelled out in slightly more detail I'll share it.

nd. Most of the tiny few 'activists' that have fought closely alongside me, were not activists at all, tho I love them. Turns out, they were looking for the father, brother, friend, 'activist identity'... they desperately wanted, and when they find out I am a friend 'WITH' no one, SO THAT I CAN FIGHT AS A FRIEND 'TO' ALL... they instantly, in fury, abandon the relationship. I love them none the less... but so much time wasted. So much potential wasted. In His lifetime Jesus saved hardly anyone, and seems it will go down the same for me.

Most of the tiny few 'activists' that have fought closely alongside me, were not activists at all, tho I love them.  Turns out, they were looking for the father, brother, friend, 'activist identity'... they desperately wanted, and when they find out I am a friend 'WITH' no one, SO THAT I CAN FIGHT AS A FRIEND 'TO' ALL... they instantly, in fury, abandon the relationship. I love them none the less... but so much time wasted.  So much potential wasted.  In His lifetime Jesus saved hardly anyone, and seems it will go down the same for me.

7.31.2014

***** vid interview. DN! Henry Siegman, US Jewish Leader: "They are intent on preventing the development of a Palestinian state. To put it bluntly, they want all of it. They want all of Palestine. ... This is something that Netanyahu said openly and without any reservations when he was not in government," explains Henry Siegman, the former head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America. "For many American Jews, Israel has become the content of their Jewish religious identification," Siegman says. "There’s much more to Judaism and to the meaning that you give to your Jewish identity than support for the likes of Netanyahu." He adds: "The one thing Israelis do not want to do is live in a world where America is not there to have their back."

In the second part of our interview, Henry Siegman, the former head of the American...
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"They are intent on preventing the development of a Palestinian state. To put it bluntly, they want all of it. They want all of Palestine. ... This is something that Netanyahu said openly and without any reservations when he was not in government," explains Henry Siegman, the former head of the American Jewish Congress and the Synagogue Council of America.
"For many American Jews, Israel has become the content of their Jewish religious identification," Siegman says. "There’s much more to Judaism and to the meaning that you give to your Jewish identity than support for the likes of Netanyahu."
He adds: "The one thing Israelis do not want to do is live in a world where America is not there to have their back."