THE IDDF PODCAST WITH CHUCK FREILICH & DANNY AYALON: The threat to the US-Israel "special relationship" from within America's own Jewish community

The IDDF Podcast with Chuck Freilich and Benjamin Anthony

Episode 17 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Danny Ayalon, former Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Washington.
In this podcast, Chuck and Danny discuss what being pro-Israel means today and the role of AIPAC and JStreet. Although Chuck comes from Israel’s center-left and Danny from the center-right, in this week’s podcast they are in almost full accord. Both are strong supporters of AIPAC and believe that JStreet plays a deeply harmful role.
Chuck agrees with J Street substantively on some of the issues, especially the need for a two-state solution and, at least until recently, the need to return to the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal). Nevertheless, both he and Danny strongly agree that the place to change Israel’s policies is in Israel and not by lobbying the USgovernment against the democratically elected government of Israel.
Both Chuck and Danny believe that JStreet causes a split in the pro-Israel lobby that greatly weakens the strength of the US-Israeli relationship, one of the fundamental pillars of Israel’s national security and, as such, that it constitutes a threat to Israel’s security.Whereas AIPAC is largely responsible for the $170 billion in US aid that Israel will have received by the end of the current 10-year package, JStreet has yet to account for one cent of that. Moreover, JStreet is essentially a 2 issue organization - the Palestinian issue and blind support for the Iran nuclear deal – without recognizing that Israel is much more than that, a complex array of domestic and foreign issues.
Both Chuck and Danny fully recognize the right ofall Americans, Jewish and otherwise, to expresscriticism of Israel, much as Israeli Jews do, but believe that JStreet has crossed a line and simply become an anti-Israel organization. Danny begins the discussion by talking about the history of Zionism and what it means and argues that there is no Judaism today without Israel.Chuck could not agree more.
Join us as they agree and disagree, in detail and in-depth, always respectfully, on the critical issues Israel faces..
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