My take on all of this is that it would be important that liberal Jews (besides the now well-known ones like Weiss, Silverstein, Levy, etc.) – more of their voices are needed – join the movement to curtail the power of the Ultra-Zionist Lobby on the Empire's foreign policy. Most of the power in the US currently does not lie within the non-Jewish communities that lack the organizational and financial resources, and hence the required drive for such a humungous task. They certainly cannot face the UZ lobby (& its appendages) on their own.

I don't think for a moment that such a move is easy. We are only too aware of the horrors that can befall communities that let down their guard. In the case of the Jewish communities, nobody in his or her right mind, Jews or non-Jews, want to be an enabler of such human aberrations. But the status quo is untenable. Perhaps the time has come to go beyond boundaries that restrict our course of action & affirm & fight for (perhaps for the first time in history) our humanity. Naive & puerile, I know. But what is the alternative?

The big mistake the Jewish community could be making is to put itself in the way of a lot of falling debris. It wouldn't be the first time that Jews were left holding the bag and that is what I'm afraid is in the process of happening.

"But with degrees from Brandeis and Harvard Law and stints at Tel Aviv University and the powerful Israeli lobby known as AIPAC, she has even better right-wing credentials than her husband."

Is this the big mistake? Or is the big mistake that there aren't enough Jewish voices willing to speak out about what is not in the best interest of the United States?

The reputation of the black community continually takes hits when black leaders support apparently guilty black people, a la Michael Vick, unconditionally. This then leads to prejudice and racism because white people believe that the logic of a black person can't be trusted if it means offering an opinion that might be good for the country but bad for the community.

Until Jews start to do step away from "the community first", it is completely rational for all other groups to start from the assumption that the opinions held are first for the benefit of Jews, rather than the benefit of the country.

Schumer and Feinstein, for instance. Is it any more ludicrous to assume they support Mukasey because of his being Jewish than to assume a Baptist minister will support an Evangelical?