"KEVIN HATES JEWS"

[mburbank]

A few things, really;

First, like anyone who submerges themselves with passion in given issue you give the impression of disallowing opinions other than your own. I bow to your expertise. It's your raised hackles I find harder to handle. Kevin may not always be right (if indeed there are absolutes in issues as bloody and biblical as these) but I've found him to be fairly even handed for these parts.

"These credentials simply explain why I can see through the second hand academic rhetoric. "

I would say these credentials inform your view on etc. etc. You risk venturing into Ronnieland and put people off unnecesarily by your approach. Keep in mind, this is not a Zionsim board, it's the polictical wing of a Mockery Board.

I was, of course, being beyond extreme in comparing the settlers to Nazis. But I did it knowingly. Here's my take on being jew and having lost family to the Holocaust (albeit distant). I find it unimaginable and shocking that Jews, no matter how provoked, no matter the suffering they've undergone, can treat the Palestinians En Mass the way they have. I also feel the religous right wing dominates Israeli Politics. On the issue of Zionism per se, while I think a homeland was absolutely merited, creating one with ANY link to religous, biblical justification (and I'm well aware there were multiple other reasons) was a pre made disaster.