The zionist leaders, you know, those that created Israel, were SECULAR. It is the religious right wing fanatics that are causing all the problems and are not what fits the definition of zionists like the creators of Israel.

And I don't see what the Iraq war has to do with Zionism.

Next time I have a slice of Pizza in NYC I'll be sure to denounce the Albanians who run the NY Pizza trade and actively supported our bombing of the Serbs. If they get defensive when I tell them that the entire resurrection of the Cold War with Russia is due to their dual loyalty I'll be sure to send them to you to be set straight.

But why should Gentile Americans have to pay for it all? At least the Germans paid their own way, took their own risks, and in a mere dozen years, paid the price, And have been paying reparations ever since.

What does The American Jew pay for allegiance first to Israel?
Nothing; they actually get dividends. If Gentile America had no guilt, no matter how far removed, Israel would not be anything.

The issue is therefore, why do not average Americans know nothing about the Nakba, the USS Liberty, Rachael Corrie?

Caught in a cul-de-sac. Alienating his friends, his family, proposing nothing, demeaning everything, realizing no social change, no personal change.

This statement assumes that Israel & USA interests are identical. Not hard to assume that when, e.g., the Israeli spy case just keeps off the media radar, when the attempt to make AIPAC a registered foreign agent was killed, and ditto the fate of the USS Liberty etc…

It also assumes that the prime cause of the war on Iraq was due to Bush vendetta against Saddam a la a hillbilly feud.

Your equation of Zionism with zealotry, strikes me as similar to the equation of liberalism with the weather underground, because they both adopted criticism of the status quo during the Vietnam War.

Are you more like Karl Rove or Barak Obama?

Caught in a cul-de-sac. Alienating his friends, his family, proposing nothing, demeaning everything, realizing no social change, no personal change."

Catholics used to threaten ex-communication for heresy as a method of keeping people in line.

It's called cherem in Judaism. Spinoza was also given the treatment.

Zionism is zealotry. Any type of blood and soil nationalism, by definition, is zealotry.

Caught in a cul-de-sac. Alienating his friends, his family, proposing nothing, demeaning everything, realizing no social change, no personal change. "

Witty show the danger of dual loyalty, or as he puts it, loyalty is a
lateral affair, with nothing having priority over other. Just so many bullets in the clip, each equally earnest at whichever one at any time Witty directs his fire.

Phil does alienate his friends, family, not by proposing nothing, or demeaning anything, but by doing the exact opposite. You can be sure Witty has neither the moral integrity or courage that Phil has.

If you have a goal, you'd be better off thinking how to accomplish that goal effectively, rather than trashing Meretz.

Why don't you inspire them, encourage them, help them find the logic that keeps them engaged?

Rather than taking below the belt condemnation shots.

It paints you poorly. You're driving your jouralistic career off a cliff, and not because of the content, but nearly solely because of the tone and cornering of those that you identify as opponents.

This agenda cannot take in a positive manner. The best that you can accomplish by this positioning, is to organize grand ethnically based resentment.

That is the success of the effort. Odd.

That would be a moral failing, causing a lot of good people unnecessary harm, and accomplishing very very little.

What is important?