THE HILL
Discredited J street benched by Obama for Israel Policy Forum
by Andrew Lappin
June 14, 2016

…The discarded shell of the once left-leaning Israel Policy Forum (IPF), has been “re-floated” in the guise of a centrist think tank to be manned by “pro-Israel heavyweights” Alan Solow, Robert Sugarman, Susie Gelman, Robert Elman and Robert Goodkind. Solow in particular has visited the White House on close to 80 occasions over the last seven years. The purpose of this clever tactic is to reintroduce the Obama administration’s ill-conceived plan for restarting the peace process by requiring Israel to partition Jerusalem and to unilaterally relinquish control of strategically sensitive areas in Judea and Samaria. Customarily, J Street would have been used by the administration for such distasteful work, but J Street’s credibility as a legitimate source of Jewish opinion has been irreversibly discredited. READ MORE