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Today, J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami sent an email to supporters with the subject line "ASTOUNDING."
All 49 House incumbents endorsed by the PAC were re-elected. All seven of the J Street Senate candidates were elected, including Democrats Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, Martin Heinrich in New Mexico, and Tim Kaine in Virginia.
J Street's challengers and candidates for open seats were elected in 13 out of 15 races. Ben-Ami noted that the PAC adds one more and gets to its touted victory total if Ami Bera holds on to his razor-thin lead over Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.).
Lungren is not conceding as Bera holds a 184-vote lead with tens of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted.
J Street also cheered the losses of "One-State Caucus" Reps. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Allen West (R-Fla.), Bobby Schilling (R-Ill.), Frank Guinta (R-N.H.), and Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.). All were freshman reps who came to power in the GOP's 2010 midterm Tea Party-driven rout.
West has launched a legal challenge of Democrat Patrick Murphy's 2,456-vote lead. The congressman today asked a judge to impound ballots and voting machines, and his campaign called for a recount while alleging polling irregularities.
The lobbying group defines this "caucus" as "members of Congress who put Israel's democracy and Jewish character at risk by promoting policies--such as annexation of the West Bank--that are at odds with long standing bipartisan support for a two-state solution."
"This is an incredible victory - one that is part of transforming the political atmosphere around Israel in the U.S. that has blocked meaningful American efforts to achieve a two-state solution for decades," Ben-Ami said.
He declared that "the campaign to sow fear and doubt among Jewish voters on Israel in an effort to defeat President Obama failed."
There were no Republicans or independents on J Street's endorsement list.
Tellingly, J Street also did not endorse either Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) or House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-Calif.). Both are strong pro-Israel members, and Sherman defeated Berman in a redistricting race yesterday.
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I was wondering Caroline how you would respond to these chilling events, the Obama re-election, the terrible Senate results; well what else can you do except report them matter of fact.
We all knew that the majority of American Jews would vote for Obama... again. But 70%! These people simply disgust me, there are no words.
Caroline even in liberal Tel Aviv, there is such a terrible foreboding, a tension that is thicker than usual, and that is saying a lot.
Israelis need to be braver than we have ever been, and not turn on one another. Unfortunately the latter is already the case (at least the Israeli Left turning on Israeli centrists and conservatives, instead of recognizing the external threats we face, that have just gotten a helluva lot worse).
The truly sad thing is that the Jews in these districts went overwhelmingly for the democratic candidate simply because they were democrats. It is why they reelected that wife-beater Sherwood Brown over former Jewish US marine Joshua Mandel.
I have mentioned this for years that the Israeli public needs to get over the idea of Jewish community when it thinks of the Jews of the USA.The Jews of America are going to go the same way that the ten lost tribes went. Protect yourselves and take care of your children. The majority of Jews here can voice their concerns for Israel all they want, its what they do that counts. The Jews of the USA do not care about their fellow Jews anywhere.If anything they find strong and proud Jews an embarrassment to their concept of assimilation as they beg for acceptance from the antisemitic Left.
Allen West was gerrymandered into a Democratic district.
Perhaps I am the one living in a fantasy world. I have never understood how Jews can hate their fellow Jews with a viciousness that defies description. Obviously we have yet to learn that our enemies despise us just because we are Jews. A very disheartening state of affair.
My lord how terrifying.I would imagine this will set the chance of any peace process back at least 10 years.
Your country, Israel, has just had a giant "bullseye" placed over it via Obama's re-election.
Guess who will use it?