Cher Fionn,

It is of little importance whether or not the Jews killed Christ. We deal with the realities of the present. The Christian perception is that the Jews are guilty of deicide and it is that perception that has defined Christian-Jewish attitudes for centuries. Our responsabilities, as Jews, are to establish our homeland (no people, including the Palestinians, can ever be secure in diaspora), defend ourselves from those who would destroy us (and their appologists), keep to our ethic of moral behavior (in spite of the self rightious bleatings of the deluded bigots) and never allow ourselves to be defined by our enemies. That there are those who deny us the right of self defence, is no surprise. That so many of our "friends" on the left find fault in a mono-racial state, only when that state is Jewish (I have yet to hear anyone call for a multicultural state in the Muslim world) is a disappointment to me, as it must be to other left wing Jews. After all, weren't we such an important and involved participant in liberal causes? Well, we though we were safe and secure in Germany, too, until the swaztika hit the fan.
Fortunately, in spite of the objections of the "tax paying" American pro-Palestinians (maybe, they'll like that term better than anti-Semites), we have managed to prevail without a single American soldier standing beside us. We will continue to prevail because, as we say b'eretz, "ein brerah" ("There is no choice.")