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re: Nice try, redux.

The subject was "The Left", mixed with "Democratic Party headquarters". Not Arab radicals.

We have five Jewish families in town. Four of them are distressed by certain aspects of Israel's foreign policy. They are not anti-Semitic.

That some neocons are also Jewish doesn't mean that an attack on neocons is anti-Semitic, any more than criticism of Secretary Rice is racist. Both could be, but just naming names isn't a hallmark of bigotry. Calling names is.

To tar everyone on the Left as anti-Semitic because of the words of "certain leftists" is roughly equivalent to calling everyone on the Right science illiterates because of the words of "certain rightists", i.e., creationists and their political allies. If you don't like it when it's done to one side, don't do it to the other.

Re: the good test: Jerusalem is included in the West Bank problem. It's holy land. It would be a powderkeg no matter who occupied it.

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