In Rubin's most recent missive in the Washington Post the term "pro-Israel community" comes up again and again.
Her context is the pending confirmation hearings of the Hagel nomination for Sec of Defense, assuming of course that Obama does in fact nominate the former Republican Senator for the post. Rubin sees "conservatives" as relishing the prospect of these hearings.
Rubin's conservative community appears to consist of two distinct sub-communities; the Gay/Lesbian/Bi-sexual/Trans-gendered community on the one hand, and the "pro-Israel" community on the other.
Rubin assumes that the GLBT community will be hostile to Hagel's appointment on the strength of homophobic remarks he made well over a decade ago. She could quite possibly be right. The GLBT community does tend to be quite liberal however, and in general has little in the way of common cause with Rubin's other identified anti-Hagel community, the "pro-Israel" community.
That is not a "community" with which I have much familiarity. Based on the usual suspects she quotes in her article, I assume she is referring to the community of pro-settlement lobby groups that have succeeded in making Likud the face of Israel in America. The ADL I am familiar with, ditto AIPAC, but that these constitute the "pro-Israel community" is a new one on me.
By becoming a "community" the Likudniks have apparently joined the family of other marginalized sub-sets of the broader populace.
The gay community.
The black community.
The pro-Israel community.
That community would seem to preclude the participation of vehemently pro-Israel groups like Gush Shalom or Peace Now, for the obvious reason that these groups do not subscribe to the Likud pro-occupation, pro-settler agenda.
Which is why Rubin's truncated pro-Israel community has a problem with Hagel; he's not bought into the fiction that Likud is Israel.
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