including you, Vikingjew. While much of what you said about Walt and Mearsheim's paper and Goldberg's variations was so much pained Zionist entitlement wailing and moaning (like, is there a tape somebody runs, or do people really think up the exact same words every time someone fails to fall all over themselves in praise of everything Israeli?), it is true and correct that it is to Israel's benefit to maybe take a time-out from the unsavory relationship with America's right-wing, neocon, Christian fundaMENTAList, eschatological lunatic posse. It's also true Israel likely can take care of itself in most ways; however, it would never have achieved that status without untold billions having been tossed its way by the US, along with Made In The USA weaponry to assassinate Palestinian resistance leaders and pretty much anyone else who rubs them the wrong way. It would also be good for the American soul if such an estrangement to take place, because this nation wasn't built on ill will and murder for anyone who will simply acknowlege Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior, and you know goddamned well that's the real, bottom line reason for this sort of insane dedication to maintaining your line in the sand. Oh sure, oil figures in too, because there's always mercenaries under the eaves.

The really big question is: will a Democratic seizure of the legislature this November make any real difference? No. This is one area where party makes no difference, because most American Jews are Democrats and most American Republicans (one's observer being an exception) are waiting for The Lord to come back and reclaim the holey land (and it sure is fulla holes by now) for the Xtians you are just dying to embrace in that great gettin' up mawnin', correct? And they feel the same way about you. To them you are just temporary squatters like the A-rabs who have been all but shoved into the sea. Sand niggers and Heebs. You know it and I know it too. I don't like it, but there it is, underneath the rock. They hate you as much as they hate those rag heads as they affectionately call them. Well I hate them. I am a Republican, by the way, so I have already committed a sort of sampanku here just by opening my yap. As I said early on, I don't care. I got nothing to lose but my honor, and Dubya and company have already sold that away seventy times seven.

The fact remains that the paper was a good one, it is largely factual, and Ms. Goldberg's concern over the fact that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were overlooked strikes me as somehow insanely naive and yet strangely idiotic. Don't you think? I mean, there it is, supposedly the whole entire basis of anti-semitism - a notion so roundly discredited and utterly without redeeming value that were it attached to any other group it would be a running joke in Leno's monologue. Oh. Wait. There is a fallback scapegoat. The Masons. WE actually control everything, all the money, all the power, all the politics, everything, from behind that curtain over there. And WE made up the Protocols story to divert attention from us. Never mind that a huge number of us are PRACTICING Jews, and there'd better not be an atheist Jew - a contradiction in terms, yet oh so common - attending lodge, because if he is he has lied in the First Degree and you know what we do to people who betray The Craft - it's the Protocols story all over again. So, Baphomet aside, I just gotta ask you one question: are you serious? And if so, do you have a nice ass? Like I said, I got nothing to lose.