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Whatever we can agree we are looking for in the next cycle, the logo on the podium is not an asset. That money will be going to all the other candidates, the more masculine engendered, the more politically nationalist, the more policy militarist, than our candidate(s). And, as Uri Avnery points out in No, I Can't!

IT WAS a triumphalist conference. Even this powerful organization had never seen anything like it. 7000 Jewish functionaries from all over the United States came together to accept the obeisance of the entire Washington elite, which came to kowtow at their feet. All the three presidential hopefuls made speeches, trying to outdo each other in flattery. 300 Senators and Members of Congress crowded the hallways. Everybody who wants to be elected or reelected to any office, indeed everybody who has any political ambitions at all, came to see and be seen.

The Washington of AIPAC is like the Constantinople of the Byzantine emperors in its heyday.

Incidentally, the speaker at the podium promised the Haram-al-Sharif compound (also called the Temple Mount), one of the three holiest places of Islam and the most outstanding symbol of Palestinian nationalism, to the Israelis.

So where else are there things we can agree we are looking for in the next cycle, things more real than simply "add woman and stir" recipies for political rehashes?

And who are the women available? Not just the candidates, but the staff.

The H Listers.