Ha! CarolC, that was pretty funny, I'm sorry to have not got your original sense. I'm a little dumb. I live in a hipster-doofus village that supports a few "alternative" newspapers and a major one that everyone says is left-leaning. But realistically, I bet you could find a few liberal intellectuals there too, even some of the soldiers. It's a good point that criticizing Sharon isn't anti-Israel. I think I've said what I can say--I'm not quite sure that the good things in the U.S. democracy weren't paid for with some of the bad things. It's hard for me to think I know if it could have survived and achieved good without the evil. I just don't know. And I'm not Jewish.
I'm about out of my depth here. But I do have this to say. I've met people who believe the Jewish conspiracy stuff, and even one who maintained the holocaust was a hoax (and she liked Dan Fogelberg). Well, I wasn't there, but if it's a hoax everyone might as well give up, because there's no point in resisting a conspiracy like that. Uncle. I also have some Jewish buddies who wish they could get some help from the big conspiracy sometimes, and not have to go to study in a dangerous place on just a shoestring with a few bucks saved from working like dogs at crappy jobs.