Again, Jim, and trying to express it without undue heat: yes, it does come over as such, so long as you persist in bandying about words with the associations of 'Nazi' & 'Holocaust'; however much you may try to abate their baleful effect with 'echoes' and 'in reverse' and 'matters of scale'. It has been pointed out that these terms are bound to be offensive: not only by me, but by Bobad and others. Could you not at least try to mitigate their effects by admitting that they might be taken amiss, and finding some alternative locutions to express your [in many cases, as I have never denied] justified criticisms of and animadversions against, Israeli policies and actions? But, no; such requests have fallen on deaf ears. There is, as McGrath pointed out, a fair bit of common ground here. Why do you insist on ploughing it up with your studied, unwearying, & to all apperarances intentional and unregretted insults.

I think it probable, all things considered, that you are not consciously or intentionally antisemitic. But you seem strangely unwilling to climb down from the obstinate stance you have adopted which is what gives me, and others, so distinct an overall impression to the contrary.

~M~