My reaction is only partially due to your rather mild accusations. It's just one more thing added to a long list.

I've read stuff this past week--not from anyone here--that blames the "Zionists" for the goddam Holocaust. There are more than a few people who are convinced that Israel flew those planes into the towers. Hell, most of the Arab world does. Israel is currently the whipping boy for every bloody conspiracy that comes down the street, and if I notice more than a little explicit resemblance to the propaganda of the Third Reich, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Sorry if you and Gary got caught in the backwash.

Why anyone thinks Israel has something to gain from our starting a war in the Mideast, when the first obvious reaction from someplace like Iraq will be to rain poisonous Scuds on Tel Aviv, is more than I can figure out. If they want to frame someone, they would be framing Arafat.