Lucid response, many thanks. I think you accurately represent GG's position, but I'll try to explain where we differ:

You cited one of GG's paragraphs to support this claim. The paragraph you cite, as others have noted, does not say what you believe it says. You are misinterpreting it.

I'm not misinterpreting, I'm interpreting. GG cites our entanglements in the ME. The two most prominent are our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It's my contention that GG wants to use the legitimate desire to end those wars with a conflation of GG's desire to end support for Israel, and GG attempts to vaguely "link" the whole thing to do so. This is intellectually dishonest. It is GG's conclusion (we should stop supporting Israel) leading his investigation (there's lots of other bad stuff, and it must be kinda-sorta connected).

1. Even those who recognize the existence of that rarest of entities -- a just war -- should acknowledge that constant involvement in an endless series of wars, as our Middle East policies currently ensure, causes "America's soul to become totally poisoned."

Note the use of quotes there. He is quoting MLK, right? This is the real key, as MLK was talking about how things that happen across the oceans can harm us domestically.

Well that wasn't the paragraph I cited, but yes, MLK is talking about an American war, with American soldiers. Again this is why I believe I accurately conclude GG's "entanglements" refer to Iraq/Afghanistan, as both are most analogous to MLK's referneces to Vietnam. I do not know why GG doesn't state our two actual wars as he tries to conflate them with what GG considers our third war, "Israel-Palestine."

2. Next, GG talks about three different things:

Thing one - reversing the erosion of our constitutional liberties: It's just not possible to make real progress in the domestic aims of restoring the Constitution and reversing our military and intelligence expansions

Yes, except to do this, GG has to conflate Israel-Palestine with America-Iraq and America-Afghanistan. It is more intellectual dishonesty.

Thing two - our involvement with Israel's wars

if we are simultaneously enabling and blindly supporting Israel's various wars (and therefore dragging ourselves into those wars),

Thing three - our own conflicts in the ME

while we ourselves continue to wage our own never-ending conflicts in the Middle East. All of those issues aren't merely related but are completely intertwined.

Yes, that is what GG stated.

Now, back to your statement.

You refer to "...our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan..." but GG merely cites "... our own never-ending conflicts..." I presume these conflicts would include Iraq and Afghanistan, but the fact that he did not mention those conflicts by name leads me to believe that he is not limiting our "conflicts" to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rather, the entire constellation of our involvement in the ME is part of the intertwined issues.

Okay. So how am I incorrect? Our two largest commitments in the middle east are our two wars.

Our total support for Israel undeniably angers many in the ME and this anger contributes to the problems we have.

But who does Glenn mean by "many in the Middle East"? To claim our involvement with Israel motivates Al Qaeda is an outright lie. Osama Bin Laden's rage at the west has nothing to do with Palestine and everything to do with the House of Saud. The rage from Iran has to do with our propped up Shah and manipulation of puppets in Iran through 1979. The rage from Iraq is that we blew the place to shreds. None of this involves Israel.

Since Al Qaeda and Bin Laden have far and away been the greatest danger to this country, Glenn's conflation of our support for Israel with this danger is simply a lie. No scholar of Al Qaeda thinks Bin Laden has ever cared about the Palestinians.

The problems in the middle east (that led to events like the assault upon the twin towers) and the ever-present images of threatening foreigners setting off bombs, the images that so frighten right wingers in the USA, contribute to the climate of paranoia that has motivated the torture, illegal wiretapping, and so on.

This is undoubtedly true. But the assault on 9/11 had nothing to do with Israel. Most of the terrorists were Saudis enraged by American troops on holy land in Saudi Arabia (and the pro-American puppetry of the House of Saud).

Thus, the three things (not two things, and not just Iraq and Afghanistan) are intertwined because:

A. The thesis of our support for Israel leads to the antithesis of opposition to the USA.

You need to be more specific. To whom? Unless you think they all look and think the same over there. This is not true for Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, the Sunni and Shia in Iraq, or Iran.

B. Opposition to the USA from people perceived to be terrorists leads to the injection of poison in our domestic body politic because they frighten the right wing.

This is correct. But you have not connected Israel to this problem.

C. And this leads to the synthesis of how supposedly foreign policy issues can, like the Viet Nam-inspired poison identified by MLK, create a vicious blowback that affects Americans in "the Homeland."

This is true too. But you have not connected Israel to this problem.

Or, as GG wrote:

It's clichéd at this point, but nonetheless true, to point out that it is our involvement in foreign conflicts and the maintenance of external threats that uniquely justifies infringements on core liberties and the expansion of state power. A nation involved in foreign wars will inevitably act like a War Nation at home. That's just a universal truth.

Yes. But you have not connected our support for Israel to this problem.