J Street's mien in demanding "answers" from The Emergency Committee on Israel, smacks of The Grand Inquisitor rather than from a concerned party in the current debate on the eternally elusive Peace Process. Lurking behind every question by Ben Ami and his minions is the veiled threat of summoning their master, Barak Obama. How dare anyone diverge from the party line and the One? The Two State solution has become holy writ and anyone who questions its implementation (whatever that means), must be a "far right" fanatic. Of course, "far right" is never applied to Hamas or Abbas' Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade; it is specially reserved for "settlers" and Likud. There is nothing "far right" about a group like Hamas that emulates pure fascism and theocratic blood lust. At worst, some of them are "extremists." To so-called American Jewish "Progressive" thinking, "extremist" pales in calumny to "right wing." Ben Ami knows precisely which buttons to push among his naive followers.

That is the reason for his lawyerly response to the murder yesterday of four Jews from Beit Haggai near Kiryat Arba.

Aside from being "saddened" by the murders, he offers this assessment:

Sounds more like a State Department response than one from a Jew who touts himself as "Pro Israel." Note that he is not outraged or even indignant. Not a surprise, given his group's demonization of anyone living beyond the Green Line. The October, 2009 J Street conference featured speaker after speaker exhibiting their hatred of settlers, chief among whom was Haaretz's Gideon Levy, who compared them to a "cancer." How does one mourn or express anger at the elimination of a "cancer?" Ben Ami's sadness is limited to the prospect that the cherished fantasy of a "two state solution" might be in jeopardy.

The Holy Grail of the "Two State Solution" is, of course, viewed by most of the Arab world as the "23rd" State Solution (or the 24th State Solution if you take into account Hamasistan) and the beginning of the end for the Jewish State. Ben Ami knows, or should know this fact. In its interrogatories (again, the lawyer, Ben Ami) to ECI, J Street may have gotten more than it bargained for. Michael Goldfarb's trenchant response contained a number of crucial counter-questions. J Street has yet to respond. But then, when you've got the President's back, you don't really need to answer any questions.

At the end of the day, the "Two State Solution" is really the "Seven Per Cent Solution", to borrow Nicolas Meyer's title of his intriguing novel about Sherlock Holmes. The plot chronicled Holmes' recovery from his addiction to cocaine. Isn't it about time that Ben Ami & Co. check into rehab and rid themselves of their dangerous addiction to "The Two State Solution?"

[Crossposted from JStreetJive.]