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Article: Does J Street arrival signal a split in America's Israel lobby?(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 27, 2009
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Byline: Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Jerusalem -- Since the 1950s the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been the mainstream voice of the Jewish-American community and its efforts to strengthen support for Israel in Washington.
Along comes J Street, a young upstart founded last year, in part as an answer to AIPAC - perceived by many progressive American Jews to have a clear right-wing tilt, and hardly representative of those want to see a much more aggressive push towards a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
J Street, in the thick of its first national conference in ...