Reply #3: Oh I see

[Resistance]

So calling for Israel to leave illegally occupied territory, plus international intervention is fine for you - however, it's the questioning of Israel's strategy of aggression and ethnic cleansing against the inhabitants of that occupied territory that moves into the realm of the "irrational" (and I am assuming) 'anti-semitic left'? Well that notion is really ridiculous. For one, although I don't engage in it myself, questioning the right of Israel to exist is not anti-semitic. Second, your characterization of Israel as merely defending itself "by military means" is a real distortion. Just as Bush has motives beyond "defending freedom" and "liberating Iraqis", Sharon has motives other than "national defense". We all know it, so why would you pretend that it isn't so?

Moving along, I don't know if Israel's racism is a "leading world example" or not. What is clear is that there are racist elements which need to be challenged. When you insinuate that those who make these challenges are anti-semitic, you are again wrong. Lastly, Israel was founded by means of aggression, massacres, and often outright terrorism. That is the known history of the State, and I don't find anything anti-semitic in pressing that fact to others who are blinded by the indocrination which says that Israel is merely this innocent island for Jews who have been only defending themselves from the vicious Arabs their entire existence.

I know you didn't make the direct insinuation that to express the points which I have expressed are anti-semitic - instead you defend the view of "those afflicted by bigotry" who would see my points as anti-semitic. But it's still a hollow defense.