Yes, CarolC, I missed that part. Sorry! After my own post, I saw yours, and leapt right to the link.

Still, it shows that you are always willing to believe (and repeat) even obviously false assertions if they cast Muslims in a positive light as regards their relations with Jews.

The book you cite CAN be seen as a parallel to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, if it can be shown either that the author is not really a Jew, or that he is a Jew but is being paid to support an anti-Jewish agenda. I'm not actually making either of these claims, I'm just saying that the book's purporting to be written by a Jew doesn't mean anything. Personally, I think it's more a question of "freakshow politics," as I said above. The anti-Jewish lobby have found one Jew willing to blame Zionists, and they are promoting him as if he were representative of the community as a whole. He is not.

As to your claim that the Arab jews and Sephardim feel oppressed in Israel, fine. Jews in the US faced discrimination, and we still do, but it is much better than the places we left behind. We may occasionally make disgruntled remarks about the way we have been treated (my dad had a hard time getting into universities, etc), but that doesn't mean we'd be better off anywhere else.

Say what you want about Israel, they ARE dedicated to improving the lot of Jews. They are the country that airlifted starving Ethiopians out of a famine simply because they were Jews. Do you really think they are systematically opressing other Jews worse than Arab countries did? Please!

Any response to the multiple firsthand narratives of oppression in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt?