[Cian]

I should have clarified. I'm Irish. US politics interests me a bit because it's the world leader in most things. But as for this Israel thing... How you say in your country? "Enough already?"

[Clemenza]

But as for this Israel thing... How you say in your country? "Enough already?"

I've always liked how it sounded in Italian: YA BASTA!!!

[LenS]

Ah, but Israel is the point man for the West. The destruction of Israel will simply encourage the Islamofascists to move on to the next target - Europe.

Another reason that Israel is a big topic here at FR is that Americans are still a religious people when compared to Europe. We are also a Judeo-Christian nation. No European nation has that first element. And Hitler sadly reduced the Jewish minorities of Europe to very low levels so that today Islamic minorities greatly outnumber the Jews.

This is not the case in the US. In fact, Hindus and Buddhists in several recent self-identification surveys have had numbers not to far below Muslims. If further Islamic terrorist attacks occur on US soil, the odds are very good that immigration from Islamic countries will be greatly reduced, increasing the odds that Buddhists and Hindus will become bigger US minorities than Muslims. Those two faiths are likely to have an even more hostile attitude towards Islam than do Christian and Jewish fundamentalists.