LanD-

If I can be serious for a moment, and Lord knows I'm hardly exonerating the comments of the Neos, but let me say when I was at UC, I learned very quickly (at least in the Political Science department) that any objection (or even questioning) of U.S. foreign policy towards Israel was deemed per se anti-Semitic. I found that to be disturbing.

And since that time, not much has changed. The prevailing thought is, you either support Israel or else you're anti-Semitic.

And of course, the only ones who do run their mouths are the neo-Nazi a-holes to which you alluded. Well, I'm certainly not in that group (some my argue I'm an a-hole ) but I have always been rather suspect of our foreign policy in the Middle East. I'm not saying I mark out for the Arab countries, but on the other hand, let's not give Israel a free pass through all of this, either. Yet it's almost like you have to, otherwise you get lumped into that "go back to the ovens' crowd.