No, I'm not suggesting that Israel is evil, but there are nuts out there who just can't let go of those "dancing Israelis" when 9/11 happened. It saddens me because, otherwise, these are probably nice people. I chat with one of them, who sincerely insists only Zionists are evil, not the rest of us. Unfortunately, that's the way these things always start, and we have a pretty good idea where it's all going to end, God forbid. After all, there's good ol' Pat Buchanan proclaiming American Jews to be the "amen corner" for Israel, and I'm sure he's not the only one. It's always been my fear that someday the U.S. would attack Israel, and then what do we do? Most non-Jews seem to take it for granted that we are more loyal to Israel than America. Remember, I converted. My father used to rant about Jews loving Israel so much that they should all be deported. And Israel often expects the Diaspora to rubber-stamp everything they do, which doesn't help either. I guess we should have gotten used to this---after some forty centuries. I don't always support everything Israel does, and I'm sure a lot of my co-religionists feel the same, but we're stuck in the middle nevertheless. Let's hope I'm just being paranoid.
