ends up cramping, i think making our conversation about áj @&h(% deficient and it also ends up being that you have this conversation that happens, where you know, the relationship to israel comes up in the narrow confines of the things that you re talking about in terms of american institutional jewry and so forth. and in fact i think actually we as american jews have a responsibility to make it very clear, that all americans have the right to have strong opinions about this. they can even be stupid and wrong opinions about without being called antisemites. that s one of the major things, actually. and i should say that peter, thank you for writing this book and only a jew could have wrote this book. any other person would have been destroyed. the truth is, a weaker democracy doesn t make a better, better or more secure country. the president of the israeli parliament in 2003, he wrote a public letter saying if we will
no one else cared about. i believe that israel has to do more to try to live out its own principles and move closer towards britain has an anglican queen and a cross on its flag and yet it still does a petty good job of providingç equality. i think israel could go much further towards meeting the needs of its own arab citizens and eventually and hopefully ending the occupation of the west bank. the question of why, the role that the u.s. and the jewish community in the u.s., i think the most controversial parts of the book, the parts that seem to strike a nerve are about the dynamic between the sort of institutional structure of american jewry and israel and the occupation and the sort of way those three things are bound together. you make this really fascinating point, i want you to elaborate on. which is at a certain point there s a period of time in american life in which jews were pushed out of main stream establishment institutions and things like the american jewish congres
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list. she s the host of the takeaway. peter beiart author of the crisis of zionism political writer for the daily beast and will cain is a columnist for theblaze.com. nice to have you all. another trayvon martin march this morning, this time of course the defense team for the martin family is hoping to bring some pressure on investigators, not only to arrest george zimmerman as they ve continually maintained, they also want to look into the attorney who apparently sort of dismissed the lead investigator s efforts to have george zimmerman charged. that s right. it was on the original police reports as manslaughter and supposedly they re alleging it was interfered with and want the department of justice to open a second investigation. they re opening an investigation into the case of trayvon martin s death and they want to open a second one to see if the florida officials interfered. it will be interesting to see hate crimes of course are notoriously difficult to prov
we have peter beinart, author of the crisis of zionism. and author legala gentlemjabril. and çco-co-director of the nonprofit afghan women s mission. and contributor to the daily beast quorum. 2012 has been a public relations disaster for the american military in afghanistan. a video of u.s. soldiers urinating on afghan corpses korans by military personnel. and a few weeks later, more than half of americans surveyed still thought things were going fairly well in afghanistan. today only 38% of americans feel that way. the pew poll was conducted a month after staff sergeant robert bales was thought to have shot and killed 17 afghan civilians. and coordinated attacks on