And Jim: Yes, there is a great distinction to be made between the regrets expressed by Einstein & Chomsky, & me, et al, at the way our dearest early hopes & aspirations have been betrayed*, which represent a disappointment leading to a profound kind of grief which you cannot even begin to understand or empathise with; and the lefty-agenda-driven, supposed-underdog-loving, ambivalently motivated [to put it at its least unfavourable] attacks on a small demographic striving for very survival in the face of hostile hordes, supported worldwide by well-meaning but misguided useful idiots like you. And if you haven't the intelligence to recognise and appreciate this distinction, then the worse for you

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*& if I choose to express this symbolically by denunciation of the destruction of ordinary respectable people's means of living in the form of the olive groves which were all that supported them and brought them an honest maintenance, it ill becomes you to utter smartarse sneers at this as 'lipservice' & concentaration on trifles -- indeed, it's contemptible of you. I say again, in Shaw's useful formulation: You think it isn't, but it is.