One has no more obligation to join simply because he supports a war than one has to become a sanitation worker if he wants his garbage picked up.

-- aeschylus

Do you have any idea who Aeschylus was? Do you know how blindingly stupid that sentiment is over that handle?

Oh, I see, it's the stone-dropped-on-head-from-great-height aspect of the Greek playwright and warrior you're emulating. Sorry.

Man, I really hate to burst your bubble, but it's not just all about us anymore. No one made the world just for us Jews, pal. When the UN crowned the Zionist's efforts with statehood in 1948, the deal was, Israel was supposed to solve, or help solve some problems. It was not a liscence for Zionist expansionism.

cestmoil, I've been a Jew all my life, and one thing I've never figured out is; What is a Jew supposed to do for God in Israel, that he can't do for God anywhere else. And what is God supposed to do for a Jew in Israel, that He can't do for the Jews anywhere else?

"Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt land!

Tell, Old Pharoah,

Let My People Go"

Electro, is their some kaballah (I'm more into Cabella's) you do, do so well which removes any feelings of shame?

Well, I was gonna say this about poor Electro, but then it occured to me that if I was a secret agent like Bond, I could ask for my martini "farshlugginer, not stirred"

That seems to be Electro's fate.

Ach, I know. Even now I can, in my mind's nose, smell the Proustian kreplach in a bowl of chicken. So many things I should have known. But I was a rebel! With me it was all schicksas and motorcycles. I still remember my poor Mom, going about the house muttering "A shonda, a shonda he's got to have a Honda, already!"

Mom was always a Brit-bike fan.

'Mark' is simply a shill for Hamas and Hezbollah or worse.

That's what I like about us Jews. We stick together, never run a guy down, specially when he's not around.

Wait, wait, I can't fight him! His hasbara is too powerful! Must...get...lobster!

I am so going to get a plate for the Hawk which says "SHONDA"

Perfect!

You don't keep up with current events in Israel, do you. Not very much at all is in their favor.

Me, I say go the state-supported promiscuity route.

Electro, my old co-religionist, you might very well turn me into a Zionist. The idea that Jews must live in their own separate and Jewish-dominated state is starting to make sense to me.

Yeah, maybe, but being a non-Celery reader is not a sufficient basis for an armed state. Try again.

When my ancestors came to this country not so long ago

Look, there is one thing I would be at a certain amount of pains to correct. There's no reason why I have to be so thoroughly humiliated in front of non-Jews.

I don't think any congregation I am familiar with ever treats their Rabbi as an ideological hired hand or "contractual employee" or whatever Electro said. Nor would it be considered anything but completely inappropriate to yell back at the Rabbi and threaten him with sacking for insubordination.

Oh, and thanks, Electro, for that "ni--er" post. That was a beaut.

"I guess I'm entitled"

You sure are, pal. You are entitled to play out, for reasons completely unfathomable to me, every Jewish stereotype ever fostered on us by anti-semites. I can't stop you, and maybe I shouldn't be hideously embarrassed for you.

Maybe Electro is right! Mark Elf and "Jews Sans Frontieres" is not to everybody's taste. I can see that.

So as an alternative, and for an American viewpoint on the situation and America's part in it try:

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

Or click my name. This is an excellent site, in my opinion. I bet even Electro's heard of it!

That was wonderful.

I go out to walk the dog, and when I come back, there are lots of good suggestions and DClaw1 has opened a blog!

You can't let your feet grow under the grass around here!

I read your post, DCLaw1, but the Google-Blogger commentor doesn't like me, and I'm locked out. Anyway, a friend of mine who works in the TV industry told me the word is that Steph is so over, so out of a job, for his little performance.

That's what he told me today. We'll see.

Seriously?

That's what he said to me this morning on the boat(the Warshington State Ferry Exodus) ! I "really"ed him a bunch of times, and he insisted Steph was in big trouble. Gibson he didn't mention.

Strictly sub rosa, you dig? And fer Gawd's sake, don't say you heard it from me. Well, not if you want anybody to think you know what you're talking about, anyway.

Yup, I found it barely creditable, but he insisted this was the straight dope. We'll see.

Make you a deal DCLaw1, Ho-kay? If my friend is right and they can Steph, will you reconsider the black background on your blog?

The Morning Show did a chat on post-divorce anxiety.

I've got a real bad case of that, for sure. Hell of it is, I'm still married!

And I hope she doesn't serve potted meat for dinner again. Don't you think we get enough of that around here?

What is the sound of one hand shaking?

Just remove the sock from your fist, and take the foot out of your mouth, and everything'll be fine.

I don't have anything against polygamy (or polyandry) myself.

Oy Gevalt! More than one wife? You have got to be kidding, brother, or maybe you're a much braver man than I. It wouldn't be hard, really. Ever heard of polyalimony, Pollyanna?