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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again" [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)You cannot carve out a privileged position for comment on this matter, any more than a person could do by claiming to be Palestinian or American Indian or what have you: they have all been tried, no one is overly impressed. Your words, even your words proclaimed as the words of a Jew speaking for other Jews to Gentiles, is worth no more than the cogency of your comments, and what grasp they may or may not display of the subject.
Your opening bid boils down to this: we should support Israel and refrain from criticizing it for fear of what the 'hidden hand of the Jew' will do to the prospects of the Democratic Party otherwise. It is an odd position for a 'gentleman of the Hebrew persuasion' to adopt in the early years of the twenty-first century: it smacks of the fantasies of Buchan and his ilk from a century ago, the sort of delusions that drove U.S.and English policy in Russia and Central Asia and yes, even the Levant, in last years of the Great War. Really best to drop it....