You know, no matter what his politics are, he's still a Jew--living in Ramallah, for Pete's sake. When the jihadis come for him, they won't care if he's married to an Arab or if his politics are left of Ho Chi Minh. To them, he'll just be a Jew... like his mother and his father.
You got that right, imo. Did you see the "interview" with Pearl before he got his head chopped off? In the one I saw, it seemed to me he was putting down (the policies of) Israel, and, America. Well, his leftist views (imo) sure didn't help him.
I wonder if Schmuckpiro has seen the film?