Live from Binyamin Netanyahu's and the Rumpublicans' Self-Made Gehenna: : AIPAC’s Apology for Trump Speech Is Unprecedented: "AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus... choking back tears, Pinkus apologized... implying that Donald Trump had violated...
...a nonpartisan standard. 'From the moment this conference began, until this moment, we have preached a message of unity,' Pinkus said:
We have said, in every way we can think of: Come together. But last evening, something occurred which has the potential to drive us apart, to divide us. We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage.
Trump's speech... was actually notable for its low level of invective. A candidate who has mocked Marco Rubio's thirstiness, Rand Paul's looks, Jeb Bush's energy level and Carly Fiorina's face confined his criticism of Obama to a few tossed-off insults.... 'While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of president of the United States and our president, Barack Obama,' Pinkus said:
There were people in our AIPAC family who were deeply hurt last night, and for that we are deeply sorry. We are disappointed that so many people applauded the sentiment that we neither agree with or condone. Let us close this conference in recognition that when we say 'Come together,' we still have a lot to learn from each other, and we still have much work to do....
Jane Eisner, the editor in chief of Jewish news source the Forward, wrote that she was 'ashamed that any of my fellow Jews could applaud' Trump. 'I am ashamed that they would succumb to the pandering lies,' she wrote. 'Donald Trump ought to have been received civilly but silently by AIPAC. Instead, the applause spoke volumes'...
