The Republicans appear to be attempting to split the Jewish vote through very crude and mean-spirited tactics, mostly (coded) racial appeals, especially to older Jewish voters in South Florida. But c'mon. His name is Baruch! And he's as pro-Israel as it possible to be. There are plenty of Israeli leftists who be shocked and appalled at Obama's chauvinism, let's not forget that.

Good idea. It's a positive that the majority of Iranians and Americans are on very similar wavelengths on issues of shared concern. It's also a sad truth that their fates are tied to the will of their lunatic leaders, in both countries.

All I want to say about Livni for now is that I find it interesting that in the American mainstream she's considered centrist. At least Time did in its recent profile story. It adds in passing that she was in the Mossad and her parents were in the Irgun. Damn! That's some wacky centrism.

I'd like to mention here an excellent documentary called "The Power of Nightmares," which was produced by the BBC -- it explores the parallels between the intellectual development between the neocon movement and the radical Islamists. Fascinating.

Sorry, I'm just looking at these horrifying pictures of smiling torturers. Reminds me of those recently-released photos of smiling SS auxiliary women eating blueberries.

Yeah, there are "Paulites"; I'm not among them. As for my alleged man-crush on those authors, does reading someone's work make you a devotee? That I didn't understand.

I felt a cathartic, even exhilarating, thrill watching FBI agents blast away the jihadis and their agents. It looked perfectly justified. I thought, Amen, to the words "when I find the people who did this, I don't even care to ask one question." Like Foxx's character, I understood.

Well I was raised Reform, and I have yet to understand the quite real animosity toward our kind. It might go both ways; a friend of mine once referred to the Hasidism as a cult, so take that, I guess.

"Most American Jews supported the Iraq war." Sorry, wrong. Polling data prove they didn't; what's more, most American Jews have consistently opposed much of Bush's policies from the beginning. "The main architects of the war were Jewish..." Wrong again, strike two: the architects were Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush. Sorry we can't always be the ones pulling the strings for your paranoia. "...as were all the war supporters in the media" No. Rupert Murdoch's tentacles cheered loudly for it; as did CNN, all the mainstream media, predominantly "gentile." Did *we* pursue an illegal war? No. It was disingenuously-- and disgustingly-- sold in the name of protecting the interests of West and Israel (secondarily), needless to add the fabricated WMD threat. Three strikes, buddy. Take your bigotry somewhere else.