Ha! Looking back over the thread, I notice that CarolC missed beardedbruce's point about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. CarolC's response was "but this account was written by a Jew." Beardedbruce brought up the PEZ precisely because they, too, claim to have been written by Jews. His point, I believe, was "prove it."

But CarolC, to call you on some of your distortions, on the synagogue issue you have dissembled mightily. You originally wrote:

" There is a Synagogue in Iraq that has been very carefully and lovingly cared for and tended by Iraqi Muslims since its Jewish congregants left, in the hope that some day the Jewish community will return to it and it will be ready for them if they do."

In fact, it is tended by one man, (not "Iraqi Muslims"). That man is paid to do so by the remaining Jews, who have not left. No one, least of all the Jews, hopes that the Jewish community will return. The man your article cites as the Jewish Community leader would leave himself, but his father is too old and frail to travel. Your original characterization of this thus story contained three distortions:

1) the congregation has left

2) there is more than one Muslim caring for the synagogue.

3) The Iraqi muslims hope the Jews will return and are keeping the synagogue nice for them.

Your post also strongly suggested that the Muslims were doing this out of charity (after all, if the Jews had left, who was there to pay them?) In fact, the caretaker does it because, in his own words, it's his job.

So big deal, this only proves that a Jew can pay a Muslim to be nice to him, as log as there's no danger of a Jewish community with any real power or protections!