Olmert Follows Israel Project Script

In How to Achieve a Lasting Peace former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is just writing the sort of mendacious op-ed that designated Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow writes (Moral Turpitude at Harvard L-School).

Just as Minow's lies were coming straight from the IDF, Olmert followed the script from The Israel Project (p. 12) to the last jot when he avoided using the word Jew in his column and refers only once to the Jewish population:

Don’t talk about religion. Americans who see the bible as their sourcebook on foreign affairs are already supporters of Israel. Religious fundamentalists are Israel’s “Amen Choir” and they make up approximately one-fourth of the American public and Israel’s strongest friends in the world. However, some of those who are most likely to believe that Israel is a religious state are most hostile towards Israel (“they’re just as extreme as those religious Arab countries they criticize”). Unfortunately, virtually any discussion of religion will only reinforce this perception.

Therefore, even the mention of the word “Jew” is many Israel contexts is going to elicit a negative reaction—and the defense of Israel as a “Jewish State” or “Zionist State” will be received quite poorly. This may be hard for the Jewish community to accept but this is how most Americans and Europeans feel.

While the IDF clearly ghosts Minow on legal issues relating to the IDF, The Israel Project and other US Israel advocacy organizations almost certainly provide Olmert with talking points on all important and broader Zionist issues to make sure his words (like those of other senior Israeli leaders) conform to the goals and desires of the international Zionist leadership to which the State of Israel is subordinate.
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