You are right, I do not know you and do not know if you are a 'professional victim' so let me make a correction. I should have said that "those are the kinds of words that are typical of professional vicitms"; especially ones who are always yammering about hatred of Jews everytime a criticism of Israel's politics are made.

I loathe Israel's politics but I am no anti-semite or have any hatred for jews in my heart. In fact, I'm all for a Jewish homeland. In fact it already exists; it's called New York and Florida. My homestate of Utah would also be a perfect place for further settlement. After all I'm a big fan of braindrain and believe it is the life blood of our country.

But the state of Israel in what 'was' Palestine was a very bad idea.

To the person who called me a liar, what I posted regarding statements about the New Yorker and comments from Wright and Soros is true.

It's obvious from your previous letters that you couldn't care less about Israel regardless of the situation in the United States, that's just the latest face you've chosen to put on your position.

With America stalled in a recession, inflation on the rise, war in Iraq, gas prices going up every week, and the collapse of the real estate market, I could really care less about Israel. For the past two years Israel has been goading the United States into getting involved as a partner in starting another stupid war with Iran. If this is the ivitation of a friend, well what a friend we have in Israel! We need another war like we need a fucking hole in the head! And the smears on Obama? I'd like to put this pleasantly, but I can't abide a liar, so the only remark I will make with regard to the tabloid tales you're telling on Obama, is that you clearly pulled them out of your way too uptight ass. And that's the truth Ruth.

For many Jews, Israel represents what stands between them and another Holocaust when no country, including the United States, was willing to open its doors to those who were trying to flee extermination and 6 million were murdered.

As for seeing anti-Semitism in the Obama campaign, when the New Yorker cover was discussed, posters referred to the Jewishness of the magazine's staff and the Jews' desire to undermine Sen. Obama.

In a New York Times article on Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright by Jodi Kantor, Wright was quoted as saying that should more information come to light about himself, "a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell". After the article came out Wright attacked Kantor, referring to her Jewish heritage.

A major Obama contributor is George Soros, a billionaire hedge fund titan who fiercely opposes Israel and has called for concessions to Hamas.

An Obama fundraiser was held at the home of former basketball player Allan Houston, who has said Jews had Jesus' "blood on their hands."

While there may be some exceptions, most people who oppose Israel are no friends of the Jews.

What a foolish question after 8 years of Republican Administration and the country in the mess it is in. Let me make it clear "anyone but a Republican"!

Dear Mr. Bagley,

These are the first comments I have read by you. Since I do not know you, or know how you think, I would not presume to understand you or your reasons which cause you to make certain comments on this subject. However, after reading your last two comments, I think, I may have an idea.

Most importantly, you really don't know me as to whether I am Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, black, Asian, white or whatever I may be. However, you make the assumption I suffer from being a perpetual victim from one comment I have made.

Before you make such statements, verify your facts if you have any about me which I really doubt.

Thank you

I have big questions about Obama's ability or willingness to deal with this conflict fairly with Dennis Ross as his middle east adviser. Ross negotiates for Israel and that's that. That situation will not move forward with Ross as Obama's adviser. If Obama would add Noam Cholmsky, Former President Jimmy Carter and Professor Norm Finkelstein as advisers then the situation might move ahead.

While Obama is willing to recognize the Palestinians plight with Ross as his adviser on the middle east it does not look good

If Israel wants peace with their neighbors (which I have grown to question) they will face that they need to go back to the Internationally recognized borders, share Jerusalem, share control of the waters and sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Recognizing Israel along the 67 border is something the Palestinians have been willing to acknowledge for quite some time.

"The ass you kiss today will be the ass you kick tomorrow."

You only have to look at the settlement colonies and the "for-Jews-only" roads that crisscross the West Bank to realize this fact. http://www.btselem.org/Download/Settlements_Map_Eng.PDF

Palestinians are not allowed to use or even cross these roads. Palestinians who dare cross these roads -which in many cases surround their communities- are often killed on the spot by the Israeli army as "terrorists".

It is a shame a black politician like Obama - who should know better - kisses the a$s of this racist state posing as a democracy!

You said: "The comments so far have shown to me that the hatred of the Jewish people will never die in the hearts of so many people."

These are the words of a professional victim. I think there should be a condition called ‘Tel Aviv Syndrome’ where any comment against the State of Israel or any slight against a person of Jewish ancestry (Jeez, that Barry Goldstein sure is a terrible actor!) is immediately construed as an anti-Semitic comment.

American foreign policy is forced to conform to Zoinist pressure group idiology, which dicates to politicians and policymakers to further Israli imperialism in the Middle East. nowhere is this more evident than in the current Iraq war. The Iraq war should be viewed not as a singualar event, but as a greater and expansive Israeli-Plestinian crises. President Bush has the power to end the reign of terror right now if he is willing to break clean from the straglehold of the Zoinist lobby. Polictically, it is a hard choice, but ultimatley a sensible and realistic one that would bring about true peace and justice in the Middle East.