Well, poor thin-skinned Greg, you patronize very easily, then. Perhaps you should find a different sandbox to play in, with friends whom you can control.

By the way, the point you seemed to get from my posting of Hoffer is that I was defending Israel in this case. It was not. The point is that the world treats Israel the same now as then, and whether they defeat a big foe (then), or a smaller fo(now)e. And whether they are treated as all other nations, which by and large they weren't and they aren't.

As to a 'holocaust', if it comes, it will not involve just Israel and Jews...it will likely envelop much of the world. Not looking for one soon, but maybe if the world doesn't get its act together...