I didn't think your point was directed at me, Fred. Maybe I'm not getting your point just because my perceptions of things are very different from yours. I've been hearing way more criticisms from the vast majority of people in the US about Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, the French, "old Europe", and on occasion, even Canada, in the last couple of years than I have of Israel. If I were to try to establish the presence of any trends as far as criticism is concerned, Israel most certainly wouldn't be at the top of the list of countries or peoples who are getting the most criticism.

I saw an action movie recently that was made not too long after 9/11. The bad guys in the movie were a French man and a bunch of Muslims and Arabs. Most of the bad guys in movies these days are Arabs, Muslims, and the Russian Mafia. So in popular culture, Israel isn't even on the radar screen for criticsm or bad guy status.