CarolC - Are you being purposely dense? I have in no way sought to justify anything Israel has done because Jordan or the Arab world was worse. I am only pointing out your hypocracy in stating that you are reacting soley to Israel's treatment of Palestineans, but you don't react to Arab/Arab treatment. That pretty much sounds like "anti-Israel" to me.

I think you're the one who is being purposely dense, John. What I said is that as long as my tax dollars are making it possible for Israel to do what it's doing, I will not be silent about it. If Israel wants to do these things with money that doesn't come from the US, and if our politicians aren't elected on the basis of their willingness to support what Israel is doing, and if people don't keep starting threads here in the Mudcat trying to justify what Israel is doing, I'll be happy to retire from all discussion of the Middle East except for threads dealing with the subject of what the US government is doing there.

If anyone is guilty of hypocracy, it's you. You said:

What about pictures of Pizza Parlors blown up by suicide murderers?! What a piece of work!

You seem to only care about the deaths of Israeli Jews. I see no moral outrage coming from you about the thousands of deaths of Palestinians at the hands of the government of Israel, as opposed to the hundreds of Jews killed by Palestinians.