Martin, no need to look for excuses for why I don't like your take on Arafat. Such a small-minded, embittered attitude is more than worthy of my contempt in its own right.

Most of the Jews I know here in the UK and elsewhere in Europe are well to the left on the political spectrum (the proper left rather than the Kerry left). They are supportive of a properly independent Palestine and are horrified at what Israel (thanks to the US) does in their name. Many of them would regard people like Noam Chomsky and the late Edward Said as eloquent spokesmen for their views. I'm wary about generalising, but in my own limited experience Jews seem a fairly decent sort. (I don't care for their religion, of course, but it's not the worst.)

On the other hand there are non-Jewish politicians in the US who are only too eager to sign up to your line, if that's what it takes to get elected. I despise them for that. I guess that makes me anti-Gentile as well as anti-Semite in your simple little world.