Has J Street Been Defamed? Sarah Palin says that Israel’s West Bank settlements “should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand.” Interesting, you say, and wrongheaded perhaps—though perhaps not so much by Palin standards. (At least she didn’t say she could see Hebron from her backyard…) Palin’s statement was made to ABC’s Barbara Walters in an interview broadcast on November 17, which is already months ago by the time this column finds its way into your hands, dear reader. Any sign of said “flocking?” Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of the pro-Israel,...

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