"Pro-Israel, pro-peace" J-Street silent over Iron Dome funding

Back in 2013, J-Street issued this press release:

J Street applauds the reintroduction of the Iron Dome Support Act, lead by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA-53), and strongly supports its swift passage. Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ rocket defense system is key to helping protect Israeli civilians and soldiers from rocket attacks from Hamas, Hezbollah, and other militant groups. Maintaining and expanding this project will help save lives and improve the quality of life of Israelis, particularly in the South of Israel, who have lived under the threat and reality of rocket attacks for too long.

Iron Dome is a critical element of robust U.S. assistance to Israel. American assurance of Israel’s security and qualitative military edge is an important anchor for a peace process based on providing Israel with the confidence and assurance to move toward the two-state solution essential to its long-term security and survival.

We commend the broad bipartisan support for the bill and urge its swift passage by Congress.

Yet today, when Iron Dome funding was again an issue for Congress, J-Street didn't say a word.

Has anything changed? Is Iron Dome no longer important for peace? 

Of course not. The only thing that has changed is that there is now a small but vocal contingent in Congress that hate Israel, but whose followers J-Street craves.

So principles go out the window. J-Street stayed silent because it wants to attract anti-Israel followers. In 2013, Congress was almost uniformly pro-Israel so J-Street could support a program that helps Israel without spending political capital, but now they have a tiny bit at risk - and their "pro-Israel" claims are proven even more ludicrous.

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