BB - Yes! I am only too keenly aware that it was Canada which inflicted William Shatner on an unsuspecting world. (sob!) The humiliation and deeply suppressed guilt feelings that I and most other Canadians feel over this...this almost unspeakable fact...in time drove me to conceal my true feelings by pretending to admire the man...if not worship him. This was the sort of emotional reversal that can take place when a person is under extreme stress. It was only later that I discovered that Shatner is Jewish, and so too is Leonard Nimoy. Then too, my musical hero Bob Dylan is Jewish. Could it be that my negative assessment of Israeli policies is connected somehow to my denial of the fact that Shatner is...well...less than perfect?????

Disturbing questions to ponder indeed. I fear that only a number of lengthy sessions on the couch of Herr Doktor Liebenscheiss will suffice to put these contradictions to rest.

In the meantime, I will attempt to get back to discussing Iran and Korea and the USA on this thread...and try, by hook or by crook, to avoid the thorny subject of Israel.