Growing up attending Sunday School in a conservative Protestant church in Brooklyn, I was also gooey-eyed about Israel. Moses, Joshua, Elijah, David. Those were my heroes. I remember cheering for the Israeli army with my Jewish classmates in 1967. Then I visited Israel and the West Bank in the early 2000s. I drove the roads that only Palestinians are permitted to drive. Watched sewage flow down from hilltop settlements to Palestinian villages. Stood at checkpoints while young Israeli soldier boys pointed their rifles at you. Visited with Palestinian in their homes.

That's the trip David Brooks should have taken, and the goo would have quickly dried up from his eyes, like it has for so many Americans who have visited the West Bank.

"As an American Jew, I was taught to go all gooey-eyed at the thought of Israel, but I have to confess, I find the place by turns exhausting, admirable, annoying, impressive and foreign."

The problem is not that Phil has his opinion's or his biases, everyone does. The problem is that Phil is dishonest, and uses his dishonesty to level personal attacks about a writer's integrity.

brooks is deception. he does know the full truth and does not care.

an haaretz article makes this point in writing about professor shlomo sand's work:

In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century).

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966952.html

this gooey-eyed indoctrination from a young age to a piece of land called israel helps to partly explain the reticence many jews in the position of editors in major publications to censor critical views in regards to israel.

If you're up for it, make sure to do it today, because it will be much less likely to be published if you wait.

As Mexicans demography expands, and whites search for native-American roots in their family
tree to avoid their bottom rung government benefits slot, many Jews have their own practical
epiphany. No sense in being white. Try to pass for black, Latino, or Jewish. Maybe, back in your family tree, when the chinaman met the irishman on the RR track, they became buddies and
and so you're really part oriental?

Thank you Joshua, for having the intellectual courage and the honesty to admit that the Jews of Israel are killing their closest living genetic relatives. I agree with you, it's another case of an induced mass insanity. Coming from all over the world to kill and steal from the people they should embrace as brothers.
If you have any other explanation for the Israelis conduct, I'd sure like to hear it, but thanks for recognising the essential insanity of their actions.