I Agree With the Following Re Eric Yoffe's Op Ed

Eric Yoffe's disingenous & hypocritical Op Ed was well responded to:

"Michael Doyle said:

I couldn't be more embarrassed to be a Reform Jew right now. This op-ed manages to insult all parties and invite Israel to feel free to continue to act unilaterally. If Rabbi Yoffie was trying to alienate non-AIPAC supporting Reform Jews, this piece does a really good job of it.

I have a better question for Rabbi Yoffie--where is the evidence that Israel wants peace? In the outrageously still-growing settlements? In the Netanyahu government's repeated pandering to the virulently xenophobic (including to other Jews!) ultra-Orthodox community? In the inability of low-wage Arab workers to reach jobs on the other side of security walls at any moment Israel deems they shouldn't be allowed to cross?

If this piece were a little less angry and a little less pandering, there might have been a little more substance to it. And grace and compassion, for that matter."

Michael Doyle hit it. For example:

 
• "To the leaders of the Palestinian Authority: Stop deluding yourselves! You will not be taken seriously as proponents of a two-state solution if you fail to support the underlying principles that make such a solution possible. A two-state solution means that there is no "right of return" to Israel, and that once a treaty is signed, the conflict is over. Really over. If you cannot say this now, and if you talk about Palestine being occupied since 1948, you are not serious about two states--or about peace."

Many Pleshetim are Pro Israel and learned from what happened to Goly'at.

• "To the leaders of the Israeli left: Stop deluding yourselves! You say that the Palestinians want peace, and Israelis would like to believe that, but where, for heaven's sake, is the evidence? Hints, and feints, and winks are not enough. Abbas at the UN should have said: "I welcome the Jewish state as my neighbor, and I welcome the Jews home;" but he had his chance, and he blew it. Please, no more making excuses for him."

Reverend Yoffe stereotypes Pleshetim again. And he gets angry at many of the haredim? Excuse me, but he is sounding haredi.

• "To the leaders of the settlement movement: Stop deluding yourselves! No one believes you when you claim that the thugs who burn mosques, uproot olive trees on Arab land, spout anti-Muslim slogans, and deface army bases exist only on the margins of your community. This violence has been going on for years, feeding on extremist views of Jewish law put forward by too many of your rabbinic leaders. And everyone knows that you could do far more about this hooliganism than you are now doing if you really wanted to."

Yoffe stereotypes Pleshetim again and fellow Jews this time as well. Many Pleshetim want Pleshet shel Goly'at b'Yehudah back and recognize that Noah David Simon and David Appletree, Yad L'Achim, and the Jewish Defense League don't represent all Jews who'd like the West Bank and kol Yerushalayim back.

Besides looking at a historical map for once and taking the inerrancy of Tanakh seriously, Reverend Yoffe and most of the URJ (who couldn't love and agree with Reverend Yoffe any more) need to get a clue.