James Baker to speak at J Street conference
Well, Baker is a speaker at J Street’s fifth annual conference next month (March 21-24). This will shock Israel supporters. It is a sign that the lobby really is splitting, and there’s going to be a rightwing lobby for the Republicans and a centrist lobby for the Democrats. J Street declared that the lobby was splitting over the illegal Israeli settlements issue five years ago. But it couldn’t pull that off; the lobby was still unified in favor of settlements, and J Street pulled in its horns lest it get completely ostracized, and Obama supported the settlements at the U.N. Getting Baker on board is a sign that J Street means to drive that settlement wedge after all and believes it has support for such a stance inside the Democratic Party.
Source: mondoweiss.net