The Zionist (Jewish, Christian and secular, one is reminded) caricature of Islam goes along the same lines. It’s like Americans believe subconsciously in a “Muslim pope,” often assigning that role to whatever the Muslim target of the day happens to be — Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein (arguably a thoroughly secular figure), the Saudi nobility, the Ayatollah and/or the President of Iran, etc.

I suppose it plays into the Western (though perhaps, more accurately this applies universally to humanity) preconceived notion that there is that one great person behind it, good or evil — Abraham Lincoln, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler — etc. who is absolutely indispensable. I’ve taken to calling it the “Cobra Commander” mentality — the idea that there’s one insane puppet master pulling the strings, and if you decapitate the proverbial hydra the whole monster falls dead.

Of course, mythology being an reliable teaching device for life’s lessons, when Heracles decapitated the hydra willy-nilly, he only managed to double its strength with each blow.

Never tried it again.

There is a chasm which will open up as soon as the mainstream Jews are given a voice. It is a tragedy, but true, that a Jew who becomes disgusted by Zionism ceases, for all practical purposes, to be a Jew. And the perception of Jewish cohesiveness is so strong in Gentiles (as we see here all the time) that they assume that any organisation or project which calls itself” Jewish” must have the consent and support of the overwhelming majority of Jews. And, as I have pointed out, many Gentiles who are used to more centralised religious institutions do not appreciate the religious anarchy which obtains in Judaism, and it’s consequences.
Of course, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I could never join any religion which would accept me.