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First off, Israel would love to deal with Iraq themselves. They did it once before. It's the US that keeps tying their hands on that issue.

Nobody ties Sharon's hands. He doesn't listen to the president of the United States. If he wants to go attack the Iraqi nuclear reactor again, there's no one who can or will stop him. As for the UN, the UN is already 100 to 1 against Sharon. How much worse can it be if he attacks Iraq again?

It is you who puts ulterior motives in other people's words and that says far more about you than it does about them. Is it possible, just possible, that a person who is Jewish who has written millions of published words and had hundreds of hours of airtime on broadcast media might, just might, be expressing an opinion that they believe in, independent of "tribal loyalties".

If people are even-handed and if they are honest and if they have written millions or words and expressed opinions over hundreds of hours of airtime, wouldn't you expect that at least some of those opinions would be critical of Israel? I mean, no nation is every 100% right all the time. Instead, whenever there's the slightest discord between American interests and Israeli interests, they take the Israeli side. If they only took the Israeli side half the time or 75% of the time, I wouldn't have a problem. I might not agree but I'd say, "Okay, fair enough, that's the way they see it." But when you've got a bunch of people who take the Israeli side all the time I would say they've got their own agenda.

Look, if it so important to Israel that Iraq be attacked, why don't they just do it, and leave the US out of it? Why does it have to be the US that attacks Iraq?

You are the one who asserts that attacking Iraq is Israel's deep desire which is what keeps these Jewish pundits advocating that action. Personally, I don't see it, except for the scuds Saddam sent their way in 1991. (Funny he didn't send them all to SA, where the US troops were stationed.)

I think Sharon is a little busy right now to concern himself with Saddam. But you keep saying that is the ulterior motive of these pundits. You are the one with the elaborate Rube Goldberg-like scenario of what will happen in the ME that causes these people to advocate re-attacking a country we are (by virtue of the treaty Iraq signed) still at war with.

And, frankly, in the context of having been constantly attacked by her neighbors since her inception, I cannot, in context, think of too many instances where I can forcibly oppose Israel's actions. I would have gone much further.