[ex-snook]

"All you have to do is read Pat's autobiography, Right From the Beginning, to discover whether or not he is racist or antisemitic. Read it, I challenge you, bashers of Buchanan, and discover for yourselves that he is not."

You miss the point. Anyone who puts the USA before Israel is called anti-semitic automatically.

[Paperdoll]

>You miss the point. Anyone who put the USA before Israel is called anti-semitic automatically.<

What a ridiculous statement!

[SergeiRachmaninov]

You miss the point. Anyone who puts the USA before Israel is called anti-semitic automatically.

That is so true, and yet I feel that we have many "dual citizens" among us -- either as a matter of law or a matter of the heart -- who find it merely convenient and economically advantageous to reside in America, while their hearts belongs to Israel.

It is easy to choose Israel's side against her barbarian enemies. But, otherwise, we are far too sentimental about Israel, IMO. After all, Israel is a substantially socialist country which oriented itself toward the Soviet Union in the early years of its life when America was still struggling to oppose the post-WWII surge of Stalin's expansionism. Later, Israel found it expedient to align itself with America...and why not? The benefits were huge.

Israel is not America's 51st state, however passionately the neocons are attached to it.