Don'l: I'm privileged to be associated in your mind with Little Big Man in any context, it's one of my favorite books. The sequel didn't suck, either.

LH: I disagree with your psych evaluation of the Israelis using the Palestinians as a bunching bag with a Nazi head pasted on the top. That is flat out inaccurate, i.e. wrong. The Palestinians have been trying to make the Israelis into Nazis, but at the same time they have not stinted from using Nazi and holocaust denial propaganda where they could. I witnessed this in Alaska. I think the Palestinians have been callously used by the surrounding Arab states as a bully boy, a minion to push into the contest and then avenge onself over. The principle is well known from playground to bars to nation states.