U.S. President Barack Obama, worried over increasing criticism from Jewish supporters because of soft talk on Iran and a tough stance against Jews in Judea and Samaria, has invited Jewish leaders for a talk Monday. Among those attending is the strongly dovish J Street lobby. The president excluded the strongly nationalist National Council of Young Israel (YI) and Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), sources told Israel National News.
...Monday’s chat between the president and Jewish leaders will include the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, the umbrella group for 51 Jewish groups. However, President Obama also has invited leaders of several individual groups, such as Hadassah, the American Jewish Committee and American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as well as J Street.
The meeting comes one month after President Obama’s “reaching out to the Muslim world speech” in Cairo, when he called Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “settlements” that are “illegitimate.”
...American Jewry contributed huge amounts of money to the president’s and local Democratic party campaigns last year, and their influence has been largely felt through the upstart Jerusalem Street lobby, heavily funded by billionaire George Soros, who opposes a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.
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