94%

Persuading these "people" holds as much promise as rehabilitating Mengele.

That's nice. But are they also for dismantling the settlements, all settlements, and sending them packing back to Israel and New York?

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Coleman%27s_database:_lots_and_lots_of_Jewish_names

I couldn't resist: I poked into Norm Coleman's supporter database, made publicly available by the Coleman campaign itself and subsequently provided for public consumption by Wikileaks.org.

I'm not going to provide the database, or any links deeper than to Wikileaks' homepage, from which you can confirm what I found on your own. But the disclaimers aside, the headline says it all.

Campaigns are required to track the source of records like these — since they buy, lease, and otherwise borrow lists from various organizations, it's important (and legally required) to note where you got a given name from. Most campaign databases will include a column called "Source" or something similar to denote this piece of information.

And Coleman's database includes just such a column. One of the codes in that column is "gopjew_091307" — and there are over 20,000 of them.

Coleman is Jewish, as is his Democratic opponent Al Franken. But of 50,000 names in the database, over 20,000 from a single list, brought to the campaign September 13th, 2007?

There are a couple of possible connections here — On September 20th of that year, Coleman sponsored a Sense of the Senate resolution that said "that the U.S. should 'combat, contain, and roll back' Iran's 'violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq."

Earlier this year, after he was shuffled out of the Senate once his term officially expired, Coleman accepted a role with the Republican Jewish Coalition, which very well could be the source of the "gopjew_091307" source list in the first place. There's no way to know for sure.

But 40% of a supporter database from a single source in the American Jewish political lobby could make for a very powerful special interest arrangement for a former Senator. Whatever organization it was that leased, sold, or gave its list to the Coleman campaign, they're more than entitled to their views and their advocacy efforts. I don't expect the RJC to give Al Franken their list any time soon.

The Jews who are justifying a war on Iran are guilty of blood libel (a phrase similar to "conflict of interest" that they like to accuse others of, but are heavily guilty of themselves).

Perfect illustration Phil. There is no way to explain that away. It's staring us right in the face, right here in black and white: Israel is an exception to everything else that a majority of "progressive" American Jews believe in. Atrocities that they will readily condemn in others are ignored or rationalized when it comes to Israel.

It has to stop, for the sake of all involved.

Let's get these numbers reversed: If only 25% of American Jews support Israeli military atrocities, and 75% oppose them with the passion that they bring to so many other causes, then perhaps we'll begin to see serious change in policy.

Personally, I battle also with my reaction to the distinction between Gentile and Jew. It's awkward to interact in environments where one encounters such a division, because it says: "You and me, we're different." which I don't believe to be true in any way that is important to my being. Religious beliefs and ethnic history may be different but that doesn't make us different from each other as people.

Such divisions are beneficial to those who would profit from the loss of unity that results.