[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[veronica]

BTTT.

[dennisw]

btttttttttttttttt

[harrowup]

I don't know whether I'm getting mellow or not, but the commentary lately has been very perceptive, balanced and philosophical.

[Cicero]

The article by Tony Judt which Hanson cites is here:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16671

Frankly, I can only say that it's insane: a "bi-national state" in which Arabs will marry Jews and Jews will marry Arabs and (I suppose) Judaism and Islam will disappear into a triumphant upsurge of Enlightenment modernism.

The likelihood of that happening is less than zero.

[joyful1]

Dis-apear they will. Unless many many more of them begin NOW to love Hashem their God with their heart soul and resources and follow His commandments, the words of Life delievered by Moses on Mt. Sinai.

Personally, I see no signs of it. I'm hatchin down.

[Nachum]

Very well done.

[Sir Charles]

***No, in this depressing age, the real problem is apparently our support for democratic Israel and all those pesky Jews worldwide, who seem to crop up everywhere as sly war makers, grasping film executives, conspiratorial politicians, and greedy colonialists, and thus make life so difficult for the rest of us.***

As an aid for someone trying to get a better grasp of the underlying source of the root basis of anti-semitism, is this a valid generalization of what anti-semites are upset about?