[flaglady47]

So now we have the situation where Weasely made more sense than Beirut Bob.

Wesley Clark, like Joe Lieberman, is Jewish; in fact, if memory serves me right, and I believe it does, Clark's father or grandfather was a Rabbi. So it is logical, that at least on this one subject, he would be pro-Israel, like Lieberman.

[sofaman]

Wesley Clarke is Jewish? What did I do to deserve that?

[justiceseeker93]

No, Wesley Clark is not Jewish, unless one is using the sicko Nazi "blood" definition of "Jew."

For the record, Clark's father was Jewish, but died when Wesley was 4. His mother was not Jewish, and he was raised as a Protestant in Little Rock and later converted to Catholicism. During the '04 campaign, Clark thought it was chic to play up his Jewish paternal lineage.

Jewish religious law determines one's Jewishness by maternal lineage. A person with a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother would have to undergo a formal conversion ritual (including religious education) in order to be considered Jewish.