Michael, keep up. Read any article on this matter penned by a Jewish person and they will tell you that the question of the Jewish state is one of ethnicity, not religion. There is no Christian ethnicity to speak of. As for "Muslim states," well they are just that only if everyone living there is a Muslim, otherwise I level the same stricture at them as I do at Israel for calling itself a Jewish state. You are falling into the usual pro-Israel trap of thinking that anyone who criticises Israel is a wholehearted supporter of Islam. Well I'm not, any more than I'm a wholehearted supporter of Christianity (not much doubt where I stand on that, is there?)