"By the way, I didn't really know much about the situation in the Middle East until March of 2002. For my whole life I just accepted whatever I was told about it by my government and by my friends who had an interest in the region. And because of that, I bought into the stereotypes about Palestinians and Arabs that are ingrained in the culture of the area in which I grew up, which, as you noticed, was as Jewish as it was anything else, and I asked no questions.

In March of 2002, all of that changed for me. I lost my innocence about Israel/Palestine when I saw, on my television, a Palestinian man, sitting on the floor in his livingroom next to the decaying bodies of his sister and her husband."

So, CarolC, your awakening to the situation occurred in March 2002 when you supposedly saw what you describe on television. I've just spent the past hour searching the archives of all the major television news services and could find no archive of such a report in March 2002.

Those of us who have followed your thousands of postings on this subject will no doubt recall, that it was about that time, on April 1, 2002, that you posted the following:

"So it was only a few weeks ago that I was told that it's ok for me to not be Jewish because I'm a cute little Shiksa. (A word that I understand is used as a perjorative.) Now, this was told to me by someone I consider to be a friend. Still, if the shoe was on the other
foot, and it was a Gentile who said something like "it's ok for you not to be a Gentile because your're cute when you dance the Hora around the campfire", I guess you would consider that anti-Semitism. But it seems that calling me a cute little Shiksa is acceptible."

We recall that it was your claim of *reverse anti-Semitism* that set you off on your crusade.