Thanks for the comment. I made your link an active one so people can click right to your site.

I could say that NJDC, who I do support, is just as partisan as the RJC...but that would be a bit misleading. Just as Al Franken is superior to Bill O'Reilly because the former basically keeps to the truth even if he has a bias, while the latter lets bias trump truth, the NJDC has struck me as basically factual within their partisanship while the RJC has struck me as more than willing to lie. In that context, I trust the poll cited by the NJDC more than the poll cited by RJC, particularly because the poll cited by the RJC was their own poll while the poll cited by the NJDC was a media poll.

On Israel I may rank as insufficiently pro-Israel by many people's standards. I consider myself BOTH pro-Israel AND pro-Palestine and consider it impossible to support one but not the other because they were both created by the same UN action. I also feel that the Israeli invasions of Lebanon were detremental to the interests of Israel, not helpful, though I am very understanding of the needs of Israel to defend itself against near constant attacks. I have tended to anger both Orthodox Jews because I sympathize with the Palestinians, but also to anger many leftists who don't like my defense of Israel.

But what is clear to me is that the pro-Israel rhetoric of the Republicans has two worrisome aspects. First they carry it out in a way that is detremental to Israel, the invasion of Iraq being the prime example. It seems they support Israel not for the benefit of either Israel or the US, but for the benefit of bashing Muslim nations almost indiscriminantly while still cozying up to the Saudis...who support terrorist organizations that attack Israel.

Second, and to me far more frightening, is the fact that they support Israel because in their extremist Christian ideology, all Jews must move to Israel so the second coming can happen...after which we will have the choice of converting or damnation. I don't like people telling me where I should live or whether I should convert or not. This aspect of their support for Israel is really frightening and borderline crazy.

Anyway, thanks again for commenting.