Israeli Government’s Gift to J Street: Truth Served Straight Up The address of the embassy's No. 2 sparked a gala dinner tiff, but then former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also got into hot water with the crowd.

The No. 2 at the Israeli Embassy in Washington took the stage at J Street’s gala dinner tonight with a polite, impeccably structured point-by-point barrage of the risks faced by the Jewish state and where the lobbying organization has slipped.
It sparked a battle of sorts at the event, with former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert taking the beginning of his address to slam the Israeli government for sending the diplomat to speak — but then launching into similar points on Iran that provoked the same chilly reaction from the crowd.

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