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The entire list needs repeating:

"Bush's civil agenda still deters most Jews. Issues of religion and state, as well as his opposition to abortion, his reluctance to restrict the right to bear arms, and the marginal importance he assigns to environmental quality are eventually leading the Jews to the Democratic candidates."

1) Since the US offers the safest environment in the world to the Jewish faith and GWB and "our side" seem far more willing to defend religious rights than the "not on public property" & "ethics are relative" left...
2) Since Israel is an armed camp - and becomming more so in direct response to the intifada...
3) The only thing this rationalizatioon might suggest is that American Jewish political attitudes are dominated by their passionate fondness for Redwood forests and Spotted Owls.

I'm just not sure I'm willing to accept that opinion.

The American Jewish population to a large extent (at least that 80 percent that robotically punched the "Gore" hole in '00) strikes me as demographic that exists in a sort of fantasy world. Theirs must be a world wherein stark, brutal experience (i.e. the Nazis' ovens that incinerated so many European Jews)is immaterial to the present gun "control" debate here in the States. To advocate disarming normal, run of the mill citizens for the good of the state, a leftist U.S. Jew must refuse to concede the obvious, historical facts: that millions of their relatives were murdered by a state that first took away their firearms - leaving the mass of them helpless. And yet the Holocaust is of course NOT glibly dismissed or forgotten by them, as well it should not be. It is a foundation block of their religious and philosophical existence. How then do they square their fear of an armed civilian society with the undeniable fact that THEIR UNarmed society was herded like sheep to their deaths a mere 60 years ago? This is inexplicable to me. Israel has it right: it recognizes a monstrous physical threat to its state's very existence and encourages the ownership of private firearms to help combat that threat. I may be flitting about the periphery of unacceptable posting etiquette with this, but it is my sincere belief that those American Jews who insist that my privately owned firearms constitute a threat to their safety and should therefore be seized by the state are either idiots or closet fascists themselves.