As to Mrs S & her daughter: I must say that I, personally, do not doubt the veracity of Jim's story. Mrs S obviously shared my [more-than] disappointment with the way that the Zionist dream of our youth has turned sour. The fact that the terms she saw fit to employ to express her disappointment were ones that I personally consider inappropriate was a matter for her -- as indeed for Einstein when he (injudiciously in my view) used such locutions. Such terms as 'fascist', 'Nazi', and so forth, as they might have seen fit to use, being uttered by, as it were, 'outsiders', '3rd parties', 'the non-involved', or whatever, introduces an additional dimension of IMO extreme undesirability and offensiveness to the discourse, which those not actually malignantly motivated would do well, to my mind, to eschew.

I would prefer to think Jim not malignantly motivated, is all.

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